OSU drop rematch with K-State

KISSIMMEE, Fla. – Fifth-year senior right-hander Jake Post scattered two runs on five hits in six innings of work, but the Ohio State baseball team was edged by Kansas State, 3-2, Sunday afternoon to conclude play at the 2017 Sunshine State Classic Series in Kissimmee, Fla. The Wildcats (3-1) plated the go-ahead run in the top of the eighth and held on to the one-run lead for the victory as the Buckeyes fall to 2-2 on the season.

“Losses are never good, but it was our first time out this weekend and we did a lot of positive things,” head coach Greg Beals said. “The shining light on the day for me was Jake Post. It was great to see him back on the mound and he gave us a quality start. We need to work on our quality at-bats and be more prepared defensively. We need to get better at the little things and we will.”

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Ohio State-Kansas State 2017 final score: Baseball loses weekend finale 3-2
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The Buckeyes finished the season’s opening weekend with a .500 record.

The Ohio State baseball team will return to Columbus from the Sunshine State Classic in Osceola, Florida with a .500 record after dropping Sunday’s game to Kansas State, 3-2. The Buckeyes lost their final two games of the weekend tournament.

Right-hander Jake Post, making his first appearance since 2015 after sitting out last season with Tommy John surgery, had a solid outing for Ohio State. In six innings of work, the redshirt senior gave up two runs on five hits, striking out three and not issuing a walk in taking a no-decision.

Seniors Jalen Washington and Zach Ratcliff each had a pair of hits in the losing effort, as the Buckeyes failed to come up with the clutch hitting they needed late in the game, stranding a total of eight runners in the ballgame.

Kansas State jumped out to a 1-0 lead in the first inning thanks to two hits and a hit batter with two outs. Josh Rolette’s single to right plated Steve Serratore for the early lead. Post settled in after that in his return to the mound, setting down 10 of the next 11 batters he faced.

There was trouble in the fifth, though, as the Wildcats scored another run. A leadoff bunt single by Will Brennan and a sacrifice bunt by Josh Ethier put a runner in scoring position, and an infield single by Cameron Thompson brought Brennan all the way around.

But the Buckeyes were able to answer in the bottom half of the frame. With one out, Shea Murray sent a long fly ball down the right field line. It stayed in the park, but he ended up on third base with a triple. After Jacob Barnwell worked a walk, Tre Gantt ripped a single into right-center to bring Murray home.

Washington followed that up with a double into the gap in left-center, which brought Barnwell around to tie the game and gave Ohio State two runners in scoring position with just one out. It also ended the day for starter Parker Rigler.

Side-armer Nick Jones relieved and got Noah McGowan to send a grounder to third. Gantt was hung up in a rundown and tagged out, and Tyler Cowles grounded out to shortstop to end the threat.

Freshman Jake Vance made his collegiate debut in relief of Post in the seventh, and the righty from Canton Central Catholic worked around a leadoff infield single to keep the game knotted up. He wouldn’t be able to escape in the eighth, though.

Jake Wodtke led off with a single and advanced to second on a sacrifice bunt by Serratore. Jake Scudder then singled to center, bringing Wodtke home and giving the Wildcats a 3-2 lead. Vance would take the loss in the game.

KState got two shutout innings of relief from sophomore right-hander Mitch Zubradt, picking up the win, and senior lefty Jordan Floyd worked through a jam in the eighth and a 1-2-3 ninth to earn the save.

Up next for the baseball Bucks is a trip to the desert for the Big Ten/Pac-12 Challenge in Surprise, Arizona. Ohio State will play two games apiece against Utah and Oregon State in a stern early season test Thursday through Sunday.

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Ohio State lacrosse downs UMass 8-7
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The Buckeyes remain undefeated with a narrow win in Columbus.

The 20th-ranked Ohio State Buckeyes men’s lacrosse team built on its early season success with a narrow, 8-7 win over the Massachusetts Minutemen Saturday in Columbus. Ohio State now moves to 3-0 on the season. It was the Buckeyes’ first game at Ohio Stadium this season, having played its previous two matchups in the Woody Hayes Athletic Complex.

Senior specialist Jake Withers won the opening faceoff for Ohio State, and the Buckeyes quickly got two shots off before senior attackman Austin Shanks found the back of the net less than two minutes into the opening quarter. UMass answered quickly, when, after another two shots by Ohio State, the Minutemen successfully cleared and scored with 11:53 remaining in the first. Junior attackman Colin Chell put Ohio State back up two minutes later, but a penalty on the Buckeyes gave UMass a man-up opportunity which they capitalized on with a goal, tying things at two-all midway through the quarter. Senior midfielder Johnny Pearson responded with his first goal of the game, assisted by freshman midfielder Tre Leclaire, to give Ohio State the lead once again. However, the Minutemen tied the score at three-all, finding the back of the net with 10 seconds left in the first.

The two teams traded possessions for most of the second quarter, until UMass scored with 6:38 remaining in the half to gain their first lead of the game. Despite four shots on a single possession to end the half, the Buckeyes were shutout in an entire quarter of play for the first time this season.

Ohio State tied things back up early in the second half on a Leclaire goal, assisted by senior attackman Eric Fannell. But then the Minutemen scored two goals in less than a minute to take a 6-4 lead with 9:13 remaining in the third quarter. Undeterred, Pearson scored his second goal of the game to pull within one midway through the third, and Chell added a second goal of his own to bring the score to 6-6 with 2:35 remaining in the quarter.

With the game tied entering the final quarter, UMass scored to go up 7-6 with 11:46 remaining in the game. But senior midfielder J.T. Blubaugh, who was quiet last game against Detroit Mercy, scored his first goal of the game to give Ohio State the tie. Freshman defenseman Jeff Henrick, assisted by Withers, then capped off scoring for both teams 13 seconds later to give the Buckeyes an 8-7 edge that they would not relinquish with 10:39 left in the game.

Chell and Pearson led the Buckeyes in scoring with two goals each on the day. UMass outshot Ohio State 19-18, but Buckeye goalies recorded 12 saves to UMass’s 10. Senior goalie Tom Carey played just 15 minutes, with junior goalie Matthew Smidt coming in for the final three quarters and saving 11 shots on goal. Withers got back on track for faceoffs, winning 12-of-19 on the day while going solo (he had previously split time with freshman specialist Christian Feliziani). Ohio State had a 27-19 advantage in ground balls over UMass, with Withers recording a team-high 10.

UMass falls to 0-2 on the season and heads to Cambridge to play Harvard next week. Next up for the Buckeyes are the Dolphins of Jacksonville in Columbus--their final matchup in their four-game homestand before heading to Milwaukee to face Marquette.

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No. 14 Ohio State hockey defeats Michigan State, 4-3
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The Buckeyes completed the weekend sweep with the 4-3 victory over the Spartans on Saturday night

Ohio State showing dominance against inferior teams is not something we’ve seen lately as much as we should. But, boy, did it show up in the second period on Saturday night.

No. 14 Ohio State hockey went up 1-0 after twenty minutes, but obliterated Michigan State in the second, outshooting MSU 14-4 in the frame and retaining their lead. MSU had some puck luck in the second, scoring twice on their four shots, but Ohio State’s dominance allowed them to retain their lead despite that disadvantage.

The first and third periods weren’t nearly as impressive, but Ohio State found a way to scrape by and maintain their lead throughout, never trailing or even spending a second tied after scoring their first goal.

The first period wasn’t so nice in the shot total department, with OSU trailing 6-9. But Matt Miller, who had two assists on Friday night, scored at 12:17. His second in three games, on the powerplay, was assisted by Matt Joyaux and Weis.

That’d be all that would appear on the scoreboard in the first, but the second would look like a 1980s Oilers game in comparison. Nick Schilkey scored his 23rd of the year just 1:18 into the second, taking a feed in the offensive zone and firing a sharp angle shot low in the zone to make it 2-0. David Gust got the primary assist for the feed and Gordi Myer had the secondary helper. His 23rd is the most for a Buckeye since 2005.

Brendon Kearney would make it 3-0 in favor of OSU just 27 seconds later, at 1:45 and this one sure looked like it was going to be a laugher. If I told you Michigan State would only register four shots in the second despite being down 3-0, you’d think they got their doors blown off. They did, but still found a way to score. Twice.

Logan Lambdin scored quickly after Kearney, at 2:36 and Mason Appleton made it a one goal game at 13:16, just over ten minutes later. Suddenly, Ohio State looked like they were in deep trouble, but they didn’t stop attacking and give MSU any more chances than they earned.

Michigan State wouldn’t score again in that period and OSU took that 3-2 lead into the intermission. Ohio State would go back to their defensive shell in the third, only registering four shots of their own, but they only allowed six in net and would find a way to hold on.

Weis would provide an ultimately-much needed insurance goal, as he took a feed from John Wiitala after Wiitala won an offensive zone faceoff and put it home. Ohio State was back up two goals, 4-2.

Michigan State wasn’t done, however. The Spartans looked like they got within one with 6:02 left in the third, but Ohio State challenged, thinking that MSU came into the zone offside. The goal, unfortunately for the Buckeyes, was upheld and the lead was down to just one.

But that was all that the Spartans would get. Michigan State would get three shots within the last four plus minutes, but weren’t able to find a way to put one into the OSU net. The Buckeyes held on by a score of 4-3 and improved to 16-8-6 in conference and 7-6-1-1 in conference. MSU falls to 6-19-3 overall and 2-10-2 in conference after the weekend.

The Buckeyes will face the team from Michigan they’ve had substantially more problems with, the Wolverines, next weekend in Columbus and they hope to avenge the split from two weekends ago.

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After a miraculous comeback victory in the team's first game of the day, Ohio State baseball's luck ran out in game two, as the Buckeyes fell to Pittsburgh, 7-2. The scarlet and gray now stands 2-1 on the young season, with one game remaining at the ...

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Ohio State-Pittsburgh 2017 final score: Buckeye baseball falls to Panthers, 7-2
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The baseball Bucks ran out of gas in their second game of the day in the Sunshine State.

After a miraculous comeback victory in the team’s first game of the day, Ohio State baseball’s luck ran out in game two, as the Buckeyes fell to Pittsburgh, 7-2. The scarlet and gray now stands 2-1 on the young season, with one game remaining at the Sunshine State Classic on Sunday.

The Panthers’ senior righty Josh Falk put the clamps on the Buckeyes’ bats, allowing just a run on three hits in eight innings, striking out seven and walking three.

Sophomore right-hander Ryan Feltner was on the bump, and he had his struggles with command. In 5.2 innings of work, the Walsh Jesuit product yielded four run on five hits, walking three, hitting two batters, and uncorking three wild pitches.

Matters were further complicated by five errors committed by Ohio State, including three by sophomore third baseman Brady Cherry. In three games, the Buckeyes have an astounding nine miscues.

Ohio State wasted no time getting on the board, scoring a run in the top of the first. Tre Gantt led off with a ground rule double, was bunted over to third by Jalen Washington, and scored on a sacrifice fly by Noah MCGowan. It was the last time the squad would sniff the scoreboard until the final frame of the game.

Pitt answered in the second, taking a 2-1 lead on a two-run ground rule double by Nico Popa off Feltner. The Panthers added another in the third thanks to a Manny Pazos RBI single.

The advantage was pushed out to 4-1 in the bottom of the fourth. Popa reached on a fielder’s choice, stole second, and advanced to third when Washington’s throw was awry. Jacob Wright then hit a ball hard to first for an infield hit, plating Popa.

Pitt added onto the lead once more in the bottom of the seventh against lefty Joe Stoll. Caleb Parry doubled to lead off, and came around to score on a sacrifice fly by Pazos off righty Kyle Michalik, who came on in relief.

In the eighth, the Panthers got even more. Relievers Austin Woodby and Andrew Magno walked the first four batters of the inning, forcing home a run. Magno rebounded to strike out the next two batters, but another walk forced in a second run, stretching the lead to the 7-1.

Ohio State managed to put a run on the board in the ninth when Shea Murray worked a walk with the bases loaded, but it was far too little, too late.

The Buckeyes wrap up their opening weekend with Kansas State on Sunday. First pitch is scheduled for 11:00 a.m. ET, with redshirt senior Jake Post on the bump for Ohio State against the Wildcats’ Parker Rigler.

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Michigan women win second straight Big Ten Swimming & Diving Championship
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Michigan claimed the 2017 Big Ten Women’s Swimming & Diving Championship, its second consecutive conference crown and 16th in program history, on Saturday at the Boilermaker Aquatic Center on the campus of Purdue University. Michigan collected 14 top-three finishes and compiled 1,287 total points throughout the four-day event. Indiana finished second after collecting 1,125 points and Wisconsin was third with 1,101.5 points. Minnesota finished fourth with 1,086 points, while Ohio State recorded 837 points to finish fifth. The Wolverines took home titles and set Big Ten Championship records in the 200-yard freestyle (Siobhan Haughey; 1:42.49), 500-yard freestyle (G Ryan; 4:34.40),

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