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Home Opener vs Toledo !

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I aim to misbehave
Gametracker is back! I cant make it to any games this year, but at least i can keep up.




Toledo is a very poor hitting and fielding team, but they have
managed to win a few games because they have a good
pitching staff (3.28 ERA). Their pitching makes them dangerous...this is not a sure win by any stretch.

Toledo's RPI is 147(ours falls a little more each day..down to 123 without even playing a game this weekend!)


I have no idea who will get the ball for us...I 'm gonna go with Fausnaugh.
 
Buckeyes Open 10th Year at Bill Davis Stadium vs. Toledo

After 16 games on the road to start the season, Ohio State brings an 11-5 record into its home opener after going 5-1 last week on its annual spring break trip

March 28, 2006

OHIO STATE BUCKEYES
11-5, 0-0 Big Ten
vs.
TOLEDO ROCKETS
9-7, 2-1 Mid-American

March 29, 2006 o 2 p.m.
Bill Davis Stadium (Capacity: 4,450)
Columbus, Ohio

Series History: Ohio State leads 21-6
Last Meeting: Ohio State 12-4, March 30, 2005

PROBABLE PITCHING MATCHUP
Greg Gompf (Toledo) vs. J.B. Shuck (Ohio State)

TELEVISION/RADIO
None

GAMETRACKER
ohiostatebuckeyes.com

After playing the first 16 games in the state of Florida, Ohio State makes its season debut in Columbus Wednesday when it opens the 10th season of play at Bill Davis Stadium with a 2 p.m. matinee vs. Toledo.
The Buckeyes are 169-67 (.716) during the first nine seasons in the facility which opened in 1997. The venue has played host to two Big Ten tournament championships (1999 and 2001), two regional championships (1999 and 2001) and two super regional championships (1999 and 2003).
Ohio State will play 23 games at Bill Davis Stadium in 2006. Toledo is the first of seven home midweek opponents, which also include Miami (Ohio), Central Michigan, Oakland, Cleveland State, Eastern Michigan and Pittsburgh. Defending Big Ten champion Illinois will be the first of four conference opponents to visit Bill Davis Stadium when it comes to Columbus April 7-9. The Scarlet and Gray also will welcome Purdue in late April and close the season with back-to-back home weekends against Minnesota and Penn State.

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The Toledo game will not be broadcast on the radio but, like all home games this season, the game will feature Gametracker at ohiostatebuckeyes.com

ABOUT OHIO STATE
The Buckeyes are tied atop the Big Ten standings with a 11-5 record after winning nine of their last 10 games, including a 5-1 mark on their annual spring break trip last week in Bradenton, Fla. Ohio State opened its spring break with a 14-0 victory vs. Massachusetts and then beat Cornell 12-4 before falling 7-1 to Illinois-Chicago. The Buckeyes rebounded to beat Cornell 6-0 and won two games vs. Vermont (14-1 and 6-5).
The Scarlet and Gray batted .335 in the six games and were led by Jacob Howell, who batted .571 in the six games. He was 12-for-21 with one double, two triples and a sacrifice bunt for five RBI and nine runs scored. He also drew three walks and was hit by one pitch with only two strikeouts. He added two stolen bases. Matt Angle hit .435 and scored 11 runs on the trip and Eric Fryer hit .421 and batted in 10 runs. Ronnie Bourquin was one of three with more than 10 hits. The Buckeye third baseman batted in 10 runs and scored eight times. Ohio State is now hitting .352 as a team and is led by Angle, who is batting .446. Bourquin is batting .443 for the season and Howell is batting .433.
On the hill in Bradenton, Dan DeLucia was 2-0 while J.B. Shuck, Jake Hale and Josh Barrera also earned wins. DeLucia pitched a three-hit, complete game, 14-0 shutout vs. UMass in the opener of the spring break trip and then closed the week with a 6-5 victory vs. Vermont. Shuck combined with Dan Barker for the team's other shutout win of the week. Each kept Cornell off the scoreboard and allowed two hits. Hale picked up his first win as a Buckeye in the 12-4 win vs. Cornell, while Barrera claimed his first win in the 14-1 victory vs. Vermont. Cory Luebke was the losing pitcher vs. Illinois-Chicago. As a pitching staff, Ohio State had a 2.77 ERA and held opposing batters to a .211 average. For the season, Shuck is 3-0 with a miniscule 0.86 ERA and DeLucia is 3-1 with a team-high 21 strikeouts and 3.68 ERA. Luebke is 2-2 with 20 strikeouts and a 2.96 ERA.

DELUCIA, HALE HONORED NATIONALLY
Dan DeLucia and Jake Hale were named to the College Baseball Foundation Weekly Honor Roll March 21 after combining to allow just seven hits in two games last week against UMass and Cornell. Delucia allowed only three hits in a nine-inning complete-game shutout, 14-0, over the Minutemen March 19. The junior did not allow the first hit until the fifth inning, and threw 106 pitches to pick up his second win of the season. The in the team's next game, Hale, a freshman, picked up his first career win, allowing only two runs on three hits, with five strikeouts, as he combined with two relievers to limit the Big Red to only four hits in a, 12-4, victory.

BOURQUIN SHARES BIG TEN HONORS
Ohio State third baseman Ronnie Bourquin was named the Big Ten Co-Player of the Week March 20 after going 5-for-6 in the Buckeyes' lone game of the week, a 14-0 win over Massachusetts March 19. Bourquin started the game with five straight singles before a fly out in his last visit to the plate. He drove in five runs and scored twice. Bourquin, a junior from Canton, Ohio (Canton South), ran his hit streak to a career-long eight games and upped his batting average to .520 through the first 11 games of the season.

ABOUT TOLEDO
The Rockets, which play host to Youngstown State Tuesday afternoon before coming to Columbus Wednesday, improved to 9-7 this season after taking two of three games from Miami (Ohio) this past weekend in Toledo. That came a week after getting swept at Missouri State. Toledo opened the season with a two-game sweep of Eastern Kentucky and lost two-of-three to Tennessee Tech before winning four of five games on its spring break trip to Bradenton, Fla.
Toledo is batting. 255 and is led by Jason Watson, who has a .333 batting average. He is 19-for-57 with a team-high 13 RBI and has scored nine runs. Nick Lance and Scott Boley also are batting better than .300. Lance is batting .314 while Boley is batting .304. Pitchers Joe Welsh and Kyle Rawlings each are 3-1. Rawlings has 20 strikeouts and a 1.82 ERA in 29.2 innings, while Welsh has 19 strikeouts and a 1.65 ERA in 32.2 innings. The pitching staff has a 3.28 ERA and is holding batters to a .262 average.
Cory Mee (Notre Dame, 1992) is 44-80 in his third season at Toledo and as a college coach.

AGAINST THE ROCKETS
Ohio State leads the all-time series vs. Toledo 21-6 and has won 13 in a row, including the last seven under head coach Bob Todd. The last win by the Rockets in this series was April 12, 1983 when they won the second game of a doubleheader 3-2. In the seven Ohio State wins under Todd, the Buckeyes have won by a margin of 10 runs (16.6-6.6). Ohio State beat Toledo 12-4 in last year's home opener on March 30.

IN HOME OPENERS
Since Bob Todd arrived to Ohio State prior to the 1988 season, the Buckeyes are 13-5 in home openers. The Scarlet and Gray lost to Eastern Michigan 2-1 in 2004, but returned to the win column last year against Toledo to improve to 6-3 in home openers at Bill Davis Stadium.
 
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Big win in the home opener against Toledo.


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Zoeller's Four RBI Help Lift Buckeyes to 8-5 Victory vs. Toledo



Buckeye second baseman breaks 2-all tie with bases-loaded triple in the third
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Jason Zoeller was 2-for-2 with a three-run triple in the win over Toledo.


March 29, 2006
Box Score
COLUMBUS, Ohio - With the scored knotted at two in the bottom of the third inning, Ohio State shortstop Jason Zoeller delivered a two-out bases loaded triple and later added another RBI in the seventh to help propel the Buckeyes to an 8-5 victory over Toledo in front of 1,008 fans Wednesday at Bill Davis Stadium.

Zoeller, a junior from Verona, Pa. (Shady Side Academy), gave the Buckeyes a three-run lead with his first triple of the season and the fourth of his career. Eric Fryer (So., Reynoldsburg, Ohio/Reynoldsburg) led off the inning with a single through the left side, but the next two batters were retired. Greg Gompf, the Toledo starting pitcher, hit Jedidiah Stephen (Sr., Caldwell, Ohio/Shenandoah) and then walked Wes Schirtzinger (Jr., Westerville, Ohio/Westerville North) to load the bases. Zoeller sent a ball off the wall in right-center field to clear the bases and lift Ohio State to a 5-2 lead.

The Rockets got one run back in the fourth on a Jake Swint single up the middle that delivered Joel Visser, but the Buckeyes got the run back in the bottom of the inning, turning a two-out double by Fryer into a run on a single up the middle by Bourquin.
Neither team scored in the fifth or sixth, but the Buckeyes extended their lead to five runs, 8-3, with a pair of runs in the seventh. Stephen led off the inning with the team's second triple of the game and then scored on a single to shallow right by Zoeller. On a hit-and-run, Josh Hula (Fr., Castalia, Ohio/Margaretta) singled to left-center field and Jacob Howell (Jr., Ashland, Ohio/Ashland) brought him in with a base hit through the right side. Toledo added runs in the eighth and ninth innings to close within the 8-5 final.


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Zoeller was 2-for-2 in the game and was hit by a pitch in the second and drew a walk in the fifth, but knocked in four RBI. Fryer was a perfect 4-for-4 and scored two runs, while Howell was 3-for-5 with one RBI. Ronnie Bourquin (Jr., Canton, Ohio/Canton South) and Stephen also added two hits as the Buckeyes collected 14 as a team and overcame two errors. The Rockets also had 14 hits.

The Buckeyes kept the opposition off the scoreboard in the top of the first inning for the 11th time this season and then scored a pair of runs in the bottom of the inning to take the early lead. Stephen drove in Matt Angle (So., Whitehall, Ohio/Whitehall-Yearling), who reached on a one-out walk and Bourquin, who reached on fielder's choice that eliminated Fryer, who got the Buckeyes first hit that moved Angle to third.

Toledo evened the score at two with a pair of runs in the third thanks to a hit and a pair of Buckeye errors. Jason Watson's sacrifice fly to center scored Drew Hoisington and then Stephen, the Buckeye shortstop, threw high to third on the relay and the error allowed Swint to score the tying run. Both runs were unearned.

Nick Lance was 3-for-4 for the Rockets (10-8) and Hoisington, Swint, Scott Boley and Josh Colliver each added a pair of hits. OSU starting pitcher J.B. Shuck (Fr., Galion, Ohio/Galion) struck out five in 3.0 innings of work and allowed three runs (one earned) on five hits before leaving in the fourth after putting the first two runners on base. Dan Barker (So., Dayton, Ohio/Northmont) pitched the next two innings and did not allow a run on three hits with a pair of strikeouts to earn the win (2-0). Gompf was tagged with the loss after allowing the first five Ohio State runs of the game on five hits.

After Barker, Ohio State also got Jake Hale (Fr., Albany, Ohio/Alexander), Trey Fausnaugh (Jr., Circleville, Ohio/Westfall) and Rory Mesiter (So., Mansfield, Ohio/Mansfield Madison) into the game. The Buckeyes (12-5) travel to Iowa City, Iowa this weekend for the Big Ten opener against Iowa, who plays host to Illinois State Wednesday night. Ohio State and Iowa meet Friday at 7:05 p.m. (EST) before continuing Saturday with a doubleheader at 5:35 p.m. The series concludes Sunday with a single game at 2:05 p.m. Games one, three and four will be broadcast on AM 920 WMNI. All four games will be available on GameTracker at ohiostatebuckeyes.com.
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Dispatch

3/30/06

OHIO STATE 8 | TOLEDO 5

Buckeyes warm up to win at home

Thursday, March 30, 2006

Mark Znidar
THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH

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MIKE MUNDEN | DISPATCH Jedidiah Stephen, left, is congratulated by OSU teammate Jacob Howell after scoring a run in the seventh inning against Toledo.


Ohio State shortstop Jedidiah Stephen isn’t complaining about having barnstormed through Florida on three baseball trips.
He’s aware that people pay good money to flee Columbus in February and March to get a deep tan like his.
But after 16 games on the road, Stephen said it was good to get back to Bill Davis Stadium. The heavy cloud cover was just a bonus.
"It was a great day, a good hitter’s day," he said. "There were low clouds. You could see the ball really well. And when you can get 1,000 people here on a Wednesday at 2 o’clock in the afternoon, that’s great."
The Buckeyes banged out 14 hits, including four by Eric Fryer, three by Jacob Howell and a bases-loaded triple by Jason Zoeller that broke open the game, to defeat Toledo 8-5 before 1,008 in their home opener.
Ohio State (12-5), which opens Big Ten play Friday at Iowa, has won its past four games and 10 of 11.
Coach Bob Todd generally was pleased with the effort of a starting lineup that included two sophomores, a true freshman, a redshirt freshman and only one senior.
"We continue to swing the bats and score runs, and that’s good to see," he said. "My concern is if that’s going to slow down. We have to pitch and play sound defense. The potential for that is there. We pitched behind (in the count to) too many hitters today. We made their hitters better."
The Buckeyes also committed two errors, bringing their season total to 30. That’s about twice as many as a typical Todd team has at this point.
Toledo (10-8) had designs on becoming the second Mid-American Conference team to upset Ohio State, scoring two runs in the third inning to make it 2-2. Western Michigan came from three runs down to win 12-11 on March 5.
But Zoeller stepped to the plate with the bases loaded and two out in the bottom of the inning with Todd’s words ringing inside his head.
"Coach has been preaching to us all year about getting hits with two out," said Zoeller, a junior second baseman. "Hearing that every day makes you more focused. When an opportunity like that presents itself, it’s always in the back of your mind."
Zoeller sent a high fastball to the wall in right-center field to clear the bases and give the Buckeyes a 5-2 lead. In the seventh inning, he put the game away by driving in the first of two runs with a hump-back single to right over a drawn-in infield.
Fryer had a big day, too, with three singles, a double and a walk. He scored twice.
The win, he said, was the main thing.
"It is a big deal to win a game like this with the Big Ten coming up," said Fryer, a sophomore from Reynoldsburg. "When they came on with two runs (to tie), I thought we had to answer. We weren’t going to let them hang around."
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