Northwestern Series

[JCOSU86]

The Buckeyes open the Big Ten portion of their home schedule this weekend by hosting the Northwestern Wildcats in a 3 game series at Bill Davis Stadium. The Wildcats currently sit at 7-13 pending tonight's game against Valparaiso in Evanston. They took 2 of 3 from Campbell University over the weekend on the heels of being swept at North Carolina State.
Audio coverage for all games will be provided by the Ohio State University Official Athletics site. The second and third game will have a live video stream from the Big Ten Network. There is a charge for these services.

Game times are as follows:

Friday, April 1st, 6:35 PM
Saturday, April 2nd, 3:05 PM
Sunday, April 3rd, 2:05 PM

The Northwestern Wildcats

Northwestern Wildcats Official Baseball Site

2011 Roster - NUSports
2011 Schedule - NUSports
2011 Statistics - NUSports
Quick Facts - NUSports

 

[CleveBucks]

Audio coverage of the first two games will be provided by the Ohio State University Official Athletics site. The third game will have a live video stream.
There is a charge for these services.

Game times are as follows:

Friday, April 1st, 6:35 PM
Saturday, April 2nd, 3:05 PM
Sunday, April 3rd, 6:35 PM

OSU's article on the Xavier win has slightly different info:

"Big Ten Conference play opens this weekend at Bill Davis Stadium. Ohio State hosts Northwestern at 6:35 p.m. Friday, 3:05 p.m. Saturday and 2:05 p.m. Sunday. The game Sunday will be televised live on the Big Ten Network. The Friday and Saturday games will be streamed to the internet at BigTenNetwork.com. A small feel will be charged."

 

[JCOSU86]

Thanks, Clev, I was going by an older schedule. I will edit.

 

[JCOSU86]

Buckeyes win Game 1 7-2

COLUMBUS, Ohio- Ohio State opened the 2011 Big Ten Conference campaign with a 7-2 victory over Northwestern Friday night before 765 fans on a nippy but tolerable early April evening at Bill Davis Stadium. The win was Ohio State's third consecutive and upped its records to 9-10 and 1-0 in the Big Ten. Northwestern falls to 7-15 overall and 0-1.
Freshman Josh Desze and sophomore Greg Solomon paced Ohio State's 10-hit attack with three hits apiece including a double for each player. Solomon also drove in a pair of runs while Brad Hallberg scored a pair for the Buckeyes.
The Buckeyes got on the board with an unearned run in the bottom of the second to take the 1-0 lead. Dezse singled to lead off the inning and advanced to second on a wild pitch. After a strikeout of Matt Streng, Hallberg reached on a throwing error by Northwestern shortstop Kyle Ruchim but Dezse was thrown out at third on the play. Hallberg then stole second and Solomon drilled a two-out single up the middle to drive him in and give the Buckeyes the lead after two frames.
Ohio State almost added to its lead in the fourth when Dezse double to right and advanced to third with two down but Northwestern third baseman Chris Lashmet made a diving stop on a groundball in the hole by Hallberg and threw the Buckeye first baseman out to end the threat.


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[JCOSU86]

Bucks drop Game 2 7-3

COLUMBUS, Ohio- Ohio State couldn't mount a come-from-behind win for a second consecutive game Saturday, dropping a 7-3 decision to Northwestern that evened the opening Big Ten Conference series at two games apiece. Game 3 will be Sunday at 2:05 p.m. at Bill Davis Stadium. "If we throw strikes and play defense we're going to be a tough team to beat in this conference and we didn't do that today," head coach Greg Beals said. "We also left 11 runners on base which did not help our cause. We need to bounce back tomorrow and get a win to take this series."
Northwestern was led by Paul Snieder, who had a couple of hits and three RBI, and relief pitcher Michael Jahns, who pitched 3.0 scoreless innings, to improve to 8-15 overall. Ryan Cypret had four hits for the Buckeyes, who fall to 9-11 overall.



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[JCOSU86]

The Buckeyes earn the series win with a thrilling 15-14 victory over Northwestern. The Bucks relief corps blew a 4 run lead in the top of the 9th only to overcome it with an unearned run in the bottom part of the frame. Delucia walked and then scored on an error. The Wildcats scored they 14 runs on 21 hits but committed 4 errors. Matt Streng was the hero at the plate going 4 for 5 including a 2-run home run with 3 RBIs and 3 runs scored. Josh Drezse pitched a horrible 9th allowing 4 runs - all earned - but picked up the victory. Ohio State is now 10-11 on the year, 2-1 in the Big Ten.

 

[Bigjimmie]

Wow- I had turned the game off when the score was something like 14-7, the Buckeyes up and in the 8th inning I think...did not realize that we almost blew it untill I saw the final score...at least we pulled it out! Go Bucks!

 

[JCOSU86]

Write up from the Official Site

COLUMBUS, Ohio - Ohio State claimed a dramatic 15-14 victory over Northwestern Sunday afternoon at Bill Davis Stadium to win the three-game series, two-games-to-one. With the win, the Buckeyes improve to 10-11 and 2-1 in the Big Ten while Northwestern drops to 8-15, 1-2 in conference play. After a 14-7 Buckeye lead after six turned into a 14-14 game heading to the bottom of the ninth, Brian DeLucia walked to lead off the inning and came around to score the game-winner when a Northwestern reliever overthrew first on Tim Wetzel's sacrifice bunt attempt and the ball sailed down the right field line.
Northwestern jumped out to the early 2-0 lead in the first. Trevor Stevens singled to lead off the inning and, after a pop out by Kyle Ruchim, Chris Lashmet doubled in the right-center gap to plate Stevens for the first run of the game. Snieder then singled to left to drive in Lashmet and make it a 2-0 game.


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