Buckeyes Club 4 Homers in Setback to Penn State

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COLUMBUS, Ohio – A total of 10 home runs were hit on a muggy Friday night at Bill Davis Stadium but Penn State had the bigger punch and took the opening game of this weekend series 13-7.

The Buckeyes (17-29, 6-14) hit four home runs and collected 14 hits on the night. Freshman Trey Lipsey had his 11^th multi-hit game of the season, and six of the nine Buckeye starters has multiple hits in the game.

Notes

Zach Dezenzo hit his team-leading 14^th home run of the season and he now has 33 for his career. Dezenzo pushed his career-high hitting streak to 14 games with the first inning home run
Freshman Trey Lipsey had a three-hit night, falling a triple short of the cycle. He was 3-for-3 with a walk and a hit-by-pitch as well. His home run in the ninth was his sixth of the season.
Mitchell Okuley clubbed his sixth home run of the season in the second inning which is his fourth in the last 11 games.
Brent Todys went hitless the two games vs. Campbell but the reigning Big Ten Player of the Week collected a pair of hits tonight. He laced an RBI double in his first at-bat and then had a single in the ninth.
The Buckeye 7-8-9 hitters of Colton Bauer, Okuley and Archer Brookman each had two hits on the night.
In all, six different Buckeyes had multi-hit games.

How It Happened

Penn State jumped all over Buckeye starter Nate Haberthier in the first inning, hitting three home runs and scoring five times. Ohio State answered with a Dezenzo home run and a Todys RBI double in the bottom of the first.

Okuley made it a 5-3 game with a homer in the second, but Penn State answered back with two-run home runs in the third and fourth innings to lead 9-3.

Colton Bauer hit a solo shot in the sixth inning and PSU tacked on another solo home run in the eighth to make the score 10-4. The Buckeyes crept two runs closer in the bottom half of the eighth as Marcus Ernst singled home Bauer and Brookman scored on a wild pitch.

Penn State removed any doubt with three runs in the ninth. Trey Lipsey collected his third hit of the night in the bottom half of the ninth, a deep home run to right center field to provide the final margin of 13-7.

Up Next

The teams will play game two of the series on Saturday afternoon at 3:05 p.m. Isaiah Coupet will take the ball for the Buckeyes, making his 12^th start of the year.

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