Buckeye Best + Best Images: March 2-9, 2020
3/9/2020 7:17:53 PM | General
Athletics Good Stuff
March 2-9, 2020
- Wow! Tatum Skaggs scored the only goal of the game in sudden victory overtime and No. 5 Ohio State won its first WCHA championship with a 1-0 victory over No. 2 Wisconsin Sunday … this coming less than 24 hours after Ohio State defeated No. 3 Minnesota, 4-3, on another Skaggs sudden victory overtime goal. Skaggs was MVP of the tournament and was joined on the all-tournament team by frosh Jenn Gardiner, who had two goals in the win over Minnesota, goalie Andrea Braendli and Jincy Dunne.
- Congratulations to coach Nadine Muzerall, who was named the WCHA Coach of the Year for the second time in her four years at the helm of Ohio State women’s hockey. Jincy Dunne was named the WCHA’s Defensive Player of the Year for the second consecutive year … only the fourth time in WCHA history one player has earned the award back-to-back.
- Freshman Katelyn Abeln finished third overall at the Olympic Trials Part II competition and will be the first alternate for Team USA’s Sport Pistol team at Tokyo 2020. Anthony McCollum, a 2019 Ohio State graduate, earned second alternate status for Men’s Air Pistol with his fourth-place overall tally.
- Twenty-two fencers competed at the NCAA Midwest Regionals this weekend and two Buckeyes – Henry Lange in epee and Roscoe Swartz in sabre – won regional championships. The two and the rest of the team will learn Tuesday who has qualified for the NCAA championships in two weeks in Detroit.
- Ohio State remained unbeaten in North Regional synchronized swimming competition, sweeping the awards and winning the Overall Institution award this weekend in Ann Arbor. Nikki Dzurko won solo, she and Laila Huric won doubles and Huric, Paige Hopper and Rachel Jager won in trio. The Buckeyes will be seeking their 33rd national title later this month.
- Senior captains Kollin Moore and Luke Pletcher won Big Ten wrestling titles while helping Ohio State to a third-place finish behind Iowa and Nebraska and ahead of Penn State. Pletcher is the 34th different Buckeye to win a Big Ten crown and the program now has 55 champions. The duo will lead a parade of eight Buckeyes to the NCAA championships later this month.
- We watched a terrific run from the women’s basketball team through the Big Ten tournament, winning three games – over Minnesota, Iowa and Michigan – before coming up short against Maryland in the title game. First-team all-conference and all-tourney performer Dorka Juhasz will lead the Buckeyes, featuring a rotation of five freshmen, three sophomores and one junior, back to the NCAA tournament after a one-year hiatus.
- Wins in nine of its final 12 regular season games has the men’s basketball team, 21-10 overall and ranked 19th, as the seventh seed in this week’s Big Ten tournament and playing Purdue at 5 p.m. Thursday in Indianapolis.
- Carson Myer scored four goals in a 9-1 G1 win and added another in a 2-1 overtime win in G2 as the men’s hockey team swept Wisconsin in the first round of the Big Ten tournament. Frosh Jaedon Leslie scored the G2 game-winner in overtime. Ohio State hosts Michigan at 5:30 p.m. Sunday at Nationwide Arena in single elimination semifinal action.
- Liza Hernandez and Nicole Ferrara led the way with four goals apiece and women’s lacrosse improved to 5-3 on the season with a 16-14 road victory over Marquette on Saturday. Jill Rizzo was solid, once again, in net with 17 saves.
- Both tennis teams are into Big Ten Conference play: the No. 2 men defeated Penn State, 6-1, to improve to 14-3 on the season while the No. 2 women defeated Northwestern, 5-2, to improve to 9-3 on the season.
- Men’s volleyball improved to 11-8 on the year with a season sweep of Penn State on Sunday. In between the second and third sets, the No. 35 was retired and memorialized at the Covelli Center to honor now-retired coach Pete Hanson, who led the program for 35 years and to three NCAA championships.
- The women’s gymnastics team finished second to Arizona in a tri-meet in Tucson, Ariz. over the weekend. The Buckeyes are 7-9 on the season.
- The No. 5 men’s gymnastics team defeated Iowa and Northern Illinois in a three-team meet Saturday at the Arnold Challenge to improve to 8-4 overall on the year.
- The men’s golf team finished 10th of 15 teams at the Colleton River Collegiate. Senior Felix Kvarnstrom led the Buckeyes, shooting 72-73-71 to finish at even-par and place 15th out of 90 competitors.
- The No. 18 men’s lacrosse team defeated Hofstra on Saturday, 12-10, at Ohio Stadium as goalie Josh Kirson recorded a career-high 19 saves, a total that hasn’t been topped in the last 15 years. The Buckeyes are now 4-2.
- The women’s golf team is competing in Kane’ohe, O’ahu this week at the 35th Donnis Thompson Invitational. Tournament play begins Tuesday morning.
- Softball is playing a bunch of games in Arizona during this spring break and is currently 2-2 on the trip and now 8-9 on the season.
- The baseball team is currently 2-1 on its Florida spring trip and sits 5-7 on the season heading into a pair of games Tuesday and Wednesday against North Florida.
- And a sure sign that spring is upon us: baseball opens its home season Friday night at Bill Davis Stadium with a three-game series against Liberty University.
Sporting events this week: https://ohiostatebuckeyes.com/all-sports-schedule/
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