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2013 Ohio State Buckeyes Baseball

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Ohio State baseball coach Greg Beals thinks he has most of the bases covered after two years of acting like a Mr. Fix-it, patching cracks, filling holes and wrapping duct tape around just about everything.

The results from two full years of recruiting and time to lock the players into his system are beginning to show.

The Buckeyes (15-6, 3-0) will enter the second of eight weeks of Big Ten play against Michigan State (13-7, 0-0) at 6:35 tonight in Bill Davis Stadium fresh off a sweep of defending champion Purdue. Game two is at 3:05 p.m. Saturday, and game three is at 1:05 p.m. Sunday.

“The program has continued to develop,” said Beals, who took over after Bob Todd retired in 2010. “Our talent has continued to get better. I think we’ve elevated the program in the last six months. Our offseason was outstanding. Our strength and conditioning coach developed some toughness. We’re coming together. The coaching staff and the players are meshing.”

In Beals’ first two years, his teams had to pedal hard just to qualify for the Big Ten tournament. They finished 26-27 and 33-27. This season, Ohio State has begun to look like it can do a lot more. It defeated St. John’s in the Big Ten-Big East Challenge and split with Coastal Carolina.

The pitching staff, led by starters Jaron Long (4-1, 2.13 ERA), Brad Goldberg (3-0, 1.56) and Brian King (4-2, 2.43), is ranked 10th among Division I teams with a 2.35 ERA. The staff has allowed only 58 walks and eight home runs in 1911/3 innings.

Five players are batting higher than .300: shortstop Kirby Pellant (.372), center fielder Joey Ciamacco of Hilliard Davidson (.356), second baseman Ryan Cypret of Olentangy Liberty (.312), catcher Aaron Gretz (.306) and outfielder Mike Carroll (.302).

“I think it’s just the overall talent,” Pellant said of the team’s start. “The pieces are there, and we’re starting to fit the puzzle. This team gets along well. Even the bus rides are great.”

Pellant said Beals, first-base coach Chris Holick, pitching coach Mike Stafford and assistant Josh Newman have brought purpose and intensity to the diamond every day.
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Fall baseball? Maybe

On the day he was named Ohio State?s baseball coach, Greg Beals stood behind a lectern on the third-base line of Bill Davis Stadium and envisioned the Buckeyes playing in front of capacity crowds.

Never, though, did he think those games would be scheduled on a football Saturday in September and October.

But to have Northern teams avoid playing as many as five straight weekends thousands of miles from home in February and March, Purdue coach Doug Schreiber received the Big Ten?s support to gauge interest nationwide in allowing college teams to play games that count in the fall.

Big Ten deputy commissioner Brad Traviolia has said he doesn?t know whether or when such a proposal would be sent to the NCAA. Schreiber said his idea got lukewarm interest during an American Baseball Coaches Association meeting in January.

The college season begins in mid-February. Ohio State played its first 15 games in Sarasota, Fla.; Port Charlotte, Fla.; Myrtle Beach, S.C.; and DeLand, Fla.

Beals, whose Buckeyes (21-10, 5-4) open a three-game series at Nebraska (13-17, 7-2) at 5:05 tonight, thinks Schreiber?s proposal has merit.

?I?ve given it a lot of thought, and it?s something I believe in, to a certain extent,? he said. ?At Ohio State, you can stir a lot of interest in the fall, when the weather is a little better. At the same time, I do want to play a majority of the season in the spring. I don?t want to leave the union, so to speak.?

If teams eventually play in the fall, they still would be limited to 56 regular-season games. For example, a team that plays 10 games in the fall would play 46 in the spring.
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Winand to be a Buckeye
Clear Fork three-sport standout to play baseball in college





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Oct. 7, 2013

Clear Fork senior Ridge Winand shakes hands with his future coach, Ohio State baseball coach Greg Beals. Winand will be a preferred walk-on with the Buckeyes next year. / Submitted photo

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Clear Fork's Ridge Winand shoots a 3-pointer against St. Peter's last season. A three-sport athlete in high school, Winand will concentrate on baseball, joining the team at Ohio State next year as a preferred walk-on. / Daniel Melograna/News Journal


BELLVILLE — Before this summer started, Ridge Winand’s baseball career looked like it would end in high school.

After the summer, his future changed in a big way.

The Clear Fork three-sport standout will attend Ohio State to play baseball as a preferred walk-on.

“I was pretty surprised,” he said by his quick ascent. “Going into my senior year and not being recruited as high as I wanted, it was a surprise. I kept working and eventually achieved my dream.”
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