Illinois Series

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The Buckeyes travel to Champaign to take on the Illinois Fighting Illini in a three game Big Ten series starting Friday.

Game 1, Friday, May 6th, 7:05 PM
Game 2, Saturday, May 7th, 4:05 PM
Game 3, Sunday, May 8th, 2:05 PM

The Buckeye lost game one 9-13

 

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The Bucks blasted four HR's and McKinney had a no-hitter into the 7th. Dezse came in to get the final out (his 7th consecutive K) after the bullpen gave up six runs. Bucks won game two 12-7.

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The Buckeyes dropped game 3 and the series, 2 games to one, 5-11 on Sunday.

From the Official Site

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. - Ohio State dropped the rubber game of its three-game series with Illinois Sunday, 11-5, and as a result remains in a third-place tie with Illinois and Purdue in the Big Ten Conference race. The three teams are all 10-8 in league play and will enter the final two weekends of the Big Ten season trailing Michigan State (13-5) and Minnesota (11-7). Penn State and Indiana are each 8-10; Northwestern and Iowa are 7-11; and Michigan is 6-12.
The Illini outhit the Buckeyes, 16-6, Sunday and leveraged the win behind a five-run third inning and a total of five runs in the fifth and sixth innings to build a 10-3 lead on the way to improving its record to 20-24 overall. Ohio State is now 21-21.
"The big inning is the story," Ohio State coach Greg Beals said. "It is a different ball game without that five-spot in the third inning. But give their hitters credit. They played good baseball."
Ohio State scored a run in the first when Brian DeLucia doubled and scored when Ryan Cypret reached on a one-out fielding error.

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