Buckeye Sports Shorts – Ohio State Buckeyes
4/22/2003 12:00:00 AM | General
April 22, 2003
ATHLETES OF THE WEEK
Sophomore golfer Kristen White tied the Lady Buckeye SpringInvitational tournament record with a mark of 214 to win theindividual title. White broke a school and course record with acareer-low 66 in the first round followed by two rounds of 74. Thewin marked the second title of her career as she also finishedfirst at the Central District Invitational in February. Scott Lewis(So., Washington Court House, Ohio/Washington) has been named aLouisville Slugger National Player of the Week for the secondstraight week, Collegiate Baseball released Monday. It is thesecond straight week Lewis has been so-named. The southpaw fanned16 batters against Indiana in a 9-3 victory over the HoosiersFriday night. That effort followed a school record 20 strikeouts ina complete game his last time out against Iowa. In his last twostarts, which span over 17 innings, Lewis has struck out 36batters. Christian Snavely (Jr., Defiance, Ohio/Defiance) was namedthe Big Ten Co-Player of the Week Monday after batting .529(9-for-17) in five games last week with home runs in the firstthree games against Indiana. It is the second straight Big TenPlayer of the Week honor for Snavely, who also shared accoladeslast week. This past weekend against Indiana, he batted .500(7-for-14) with seven RBI and six runs scored. Of his nine hits forthe week, three were doubles and three were home runs, giving him21 total bases and a slugging percentage of 1.235.
SPORTS SHORTS
The men’s soccer team will do battle with the Columbus Crew ofMajor League Soccer at 7 p.m. Tuesday, April 22 at Jesse OwensMemorial Stadium in the second annual Connor Senn Memorial match.All proceeds from the game will go to the Connor Senn MemorialScholarship Fund. Fans will have an opportunity to receiveautographs from members of both teams following the match. Ticketsfor the event are $5 for adults and $3 for children. Children 3 andunder are free. The women’s golf team shot 295 Sunday in the finalround to claim first-place honors in the Lady Buckeye SpringInvitational. The Buckeyes won the tournament with a mark of 886,in front of second place Kent State (916) and Indiana (924). Theevent was held at the par 72 University Scarlet Course (6,037yards) in Columbus. Ohio State sophomore Kristen White tied thetournament record with a mark of 214 to win the individual title.White broke a school and course record with a career-low 66 in thefirst round followed by two rounds of 74. The win marked the secondtitle of her career as she also finished first at the CentralDistrict Invitational in February. Teammate Allison Hanna shot 72in the final round to finish in second place with a score of 223(72-79-72). Lindsay Knowlton (So., Toronto, Ontario/Havergal) alsohad a strong performance as she tied for fourth place at 225(74-76-75). The Buckeyes will aim for their second consecutive BigTen title at the Big Ten Championships April 25-27 in Iowa City,Iowa. The Collegiate National Champion synchronized swimming teamwill aim for one more title at the U.S. National ChampionshipsApril 24-27 in Long Island, N.Y.
Four Ohio State student-athletes have been recognized by the National Strength and Conditioning Association (NSCA) in the All-America Strength and Conditioning Athletes of the Year program. Velimir Radinovic of the men’s basketball team, Scott Titus of the men’s hockey team, Jennifer Miller of the women’s soccer team and Katie Virtue of the women’s volleyball team were the Buckeye honorees for the 2002-03 school year. The award recognizes collegiate athletes whose athletic accomplishments, in the opinion of their strength coach, reflect their dedication to strength training and conditioning. The athletes also are recognized for their academic and personal accomplishments and their integrity as student-athletes.
The women’s tennis team completed the 2003 regular season with a 12-10 overall record and a 6-4 Big Ten mark after dropping the last two matches in 4-3 decisions to Minnesota Saturday in Minneapolis, Minn., and Iowa Sunday in Iowa City, Iowa. The Buckeyes clinched the doubles point in both matches but only posted two singles victories to fall by one point in each match. Ohio State will enter the Big Ten tournament (April 24-27 in Champaign, Ill.) as the No. 5 seed at 10 a.m. EDT Friday vs. No. 4 seed Purdue (6-4 Big Ten), who won the regular season meeting, 4-3, April 5 in West Lafayette, Ind.
The men’s golf team will travel to East Lansing, Mich., April26-27 to compete in the Fossum Invitational. Michigan State willplay host to the tournament at the Forest Akers West Course for theBuckeyes final tune up before the Big Ten Championships. With apair of wins over Indiana, the baseball team stretched its winstreak to a season-long nine games before dropping its last twogames to the Hoosiers. The Buckeyes will try to get back on thewinning path when they play host to Shawnee State Wednesday nightat 6:35 p.m. at Bill Davis Stadium. That game will close out a12-game homestand that has seen the Buckeyes go 9-2. Last week,Ohio State beat Wooster 14-0 before taking on Indiana in Big Tenaction. Scott Lewis guided the Buckeyes with 16 strikeouts in a 9-3win on Friday. In Saturday’s first game, Derek Kinnear tied thegame with a three-run home run in the bottom of the seventh beforeDrew Anderson singled in the winning run in the bottom of theeighth. Indiana responded by taking the nightcap 13-2 and theseries finale on Sunday 6-3. The split moved Ohio State to 22-12 onthe year and 10-6 in the Big Ten. No. 14 men’s volleyball (16-12overall 11-5 Midwest Intercollegiate Volleyball Association) endedthe season with a 3-2 (30-28, 22-30, 27-30, 30-28, 15-11) loss toNo. 15 Indiana-Purdue in the MIVA Quarterfinals. Mike Wauligman hada career-high 26 kills in the match with Tom Trantow adding 17. TheNo. 23 men’s tennis team defeated Minnesota, 4-3 and shut out Iowa,7-0, this weekend at Stickney Tennis Center in Columbus, Ohio. TheBuckeyes concluded their regular season with a 19-5 overall recordand a 9-1 mark in conference action. With the win over Iowa, OhioState secured a first-round bye in the Big Ten championship. TheBuckeyes are 13-1 at home and hold a 6-4 record on the road. The7-0 decision over Iowa marked the eighth shut out of the 2003season. The Buckeyes have won five-straight matches (all againstBig Ten opponents) and have won 14 of their last 16 outings. TyTucker, Ohio State head coach, has a four-year career record of79-25 at the helm of the Buckeye program. To date, Tucker owns a37-10 Big Ten mark. The conference victories marked the last timeseniors Vince Ng (Sr., Broadview Heights, Ohio) and Phil Metz (Sr.,Mentor, Ohio) wore the Scarlet and Gray at home. Ng, ranked No. 32and Jeremy Wurtzman (Jr., Rochester, N.Y.), ranked No. 21 in thenation, advanced to 20-3 in 2003 duals and are undefeated againstBig Ten opponents with 10 victories. Both Ng and Wurtzman are on10-match winning streaks. Next up, the Buckeyes face conferenceopponents in the Big Ten championships Thursday-Sunday, April 24-27in Evanston, Ill. Ohio State sits at the No. 2 spot in theconference. The No. 15/18 men’s lacrosse team split its two gameslast weekend to move to 3-1 in GWLL play. The Buckeyes topped AirForce, 7-2, Friday before falling to Denver, 7-6, Sunday. TheBuckeyes will end conference play this Saturday with a game atButler. A win over the Bulldogs will give Ohio State a share of theconference title and the league’s automatic bid to the NCAAtournament. Mike Norton led the Buckeyes over the weekend with sixpoints, on two goals and four assists. No. 10 women’s lacrosse(10-3 overall, 3-1 American Lacrosse Conference) lost a 12-11double overtime decision to No. 17 Vanderbilt Sunday. Each squadscored in the first overtime, but the Commodores scored in thesudden victory second overtime. Tracey Bounds scored a game-highsix points with two goals and four assists. She became the careerleader in assists for Ohio State with 52. Shannon Wilson added fourgoals against the Commodores. OSU plays two road games this week.OSU faces Duquesne at 7 p.m., Thurs., April 24 and returns toleague action at noon Sun., April 27 at Penn State. Fencers AdamCrompton and Hanna Thompson placed seventh and eighth,respectively, at the 2003 Junior/Cadet World Championships inTrapani, Italy last week. Also representing Ohio State at thecompetition were sophomores Jason Rogers and Metta Thompson whohelped the U.S. men’s sabre and women’s foil teams finish secondand third, respectively. The No. 11 rowing team posted winningrecords overall against all three of its opponents Saturday at theBig Ten Invitational in East Lansing, Mich. Overall on the day, theBuckeyes posted a 4-3 mark vs. Michigan, a 5-3 record vs. MichiganState and were 2-0 against Indiana to total 11-6 on the day.Despite an 0-2 day by the first varsity 8, the Buckeyes were pacedby the second varsity 4 (7-0 on the season), who raced by Michigan,Michigan State and Indiana in the morning session and MichiganState and Indiana once again in the afternoon. The team is now awayfrom competition until the 2003 Big Ten Championships, May 3, atGriggs Reservoir on the Scioto River, where the Buckeyes will viefor their second-consecutive conference title. The softball team(23-18; 4-6 Big Ten) travels to take on the Golden Gophers ofMinnesota at 6 p.m. and noon April 25 and 26, respectively, inMinneapolis. Ohio State will go immediately to Madison to face theBadgers in a doubleheader beginning at noon April 27. The Buckeyesare coming off a weekend of two splits with conference teams. OSUbeat Michigan 2-0 Saturday, which broke the Wolverines’ 14-game winstreak and marked the first time in five games an Ohio State squadbeat a Michigan team. The Buckeyes also captured a 4-0 victory ingame one from Michigan State Sunday. In midweek competition, OSUswept Ohio (6-1 and 9-1) in Athens Wednesday, April 16. The men’sbasketball staff will feature a new, yet familiar, face next seasonwith the addition of Rick Boyages to Jim O’Brien’s staff. Boyagesspent the last three seasons as the William and Mary head coach. Hewill assume the associate head coach position with the Buckeyesstarting this week. O’Brien had Boyages on his staff at both BostonCollege and Ohio State over the course of nine seasons, the last in1999-2000 at OSU. Boyages filled the position vacated by PaulBiancardi, who is on the job at Wright State University, where hebecame the head coach earlier this month. The track and field teamsposted outstanding efforts at the 2003 Pacesetter Invitational. TheBuckeyes captured first place on the women’s side, while the menrecorded a second place standing as OSU junior Dan Taylor eclipsedan Ohio State program record in a throw event for thefourth-straight week with a 209-6 first place performance in themen’s hammer. The winning effort in the hammer was one of three, asTaylor swept the weight events for the second-consecutive week.
Taylor’s 30-point day helped pace the men, who fell just seven points shy of first place Indiana State. The Buckeye women topped the Pacesetter field with 184 team points, besting the host Sycamores by nearly 30 points.
Fueling the women were dominating performances from both the throwers and hurdlers as the OSU women swept first through third place in both the 100-meter hurdles and the 400-meter hurdles, while the throwers also scored a sweep of the weight events.
Freshman Amarachi Ukabam took titles in both the shot put (49-10) and discus (170-10) for the second time this season. Other Buckeyes making heavy contributions to the team effort and recording NCAA regional qualifiers were seniors Joel Brown, Molly Logan, John Norman, Rusty Azbel and Nicholette Chambers, juniors Brandi Hogan, Dalanda Jackson, Alexis McCall, Katy Houser and Nosa Ehimwenman and sophomores Greg Norman, John Morris, Shayla Moore, Rosalind Goodwin, Shelaine Larson, Keturah Lofton and Bryan Duby.
The following is a list of Ohio State athletics events, both home and away, for the upcoming week.
GO BUCKS!
Ohio State Athletics Schedule
Tuesday, April 22 – Sunday, April 27
All Times Eastern
Tuesday, April 22
Men’s Soccer vs. Columbus Crew, 7 p.m.
Connor Senn Memorial Match
Jesse Owens Memorial Stadium
Wednesday, April 23
Baseball vs. Shawnee State, 6:35 p.m.
Bill Davis Stadium
Thursday, April 24
Synchronized Swimming at U.S. National Championships, All Day
Long Island, N.Y.
Track & Field at Penn Relays, All Day
Philadelphia, Pa.
Women’s Lacrosse at Duquesne, 7 p.m.
Pittsburgh, Pa.
Friday, April 25
Synchronized Swimming at U.S. National Championships, All Day
Long Island, N.Y.
Men’s Tennis vs. winner of Wisconsin/Michigan, 11 a.m.
Big Ten Championship
Chicago, Ill.
Women’s Tennis vs. Purdue, 9 a.m.
Big Ten Championship
Champaign, Ill.
Track & Field at Penn Relays, All Day
Philadelphia, Pa.
Baseball at Purdue, 4:05 p.m.
West Lafayette, Ind.
Softball at Minnesota, 6 p.m.
Minneapolis, Minn.
Saturday, April 26
Men’s Golf at Fossum Invitational, All Day
East Lansing, Mich.
Synchronized Swimming at U.S. National Championships, All Day
Long Island, N.Y.
Men’s Tennis at Big Ten Championship, All Day
Chicago, Ill.
Women’s Tennis at Big Ten Championship, All Day
Champaign, Ill.
Softball at Minnesota, noon
Minneapolis, Minn.
Men’s Lacrosse at Butler, 2 p.m.
Indianapolis, Ind.
Scarlet vs. Gray, 1:30 p.m.
Football Spring Game
Ohio Stadium
Baseball at Purdue, 2:05 p.m.
West Lafayette, Ind.
Baseball at Purdue, 5 p.m.
West Lafayette, Ind.
Sunday, April 27
Men’s Golf at Fossum Invitational, All Day
East Lansing, Mich.
Synchronized Swimming at U.S. National Championships, All Day
Long Island, N.Y.
Men’s Tennis at Big Ten Championship, All Day
Chicago, Ill.
Women’s Tennis at Big Ten Championship, All Day
Champaign, Ill.
Women’s Lacrosse at Penn State, noon
State College, Pa.
Softball at Wisconsin, noon
Madison, Wis.
Softball at Wisconsin, 2 p.m.
Madison, Wis.
Baseball at Purdue, 2:05 p.m.
West Lafayette, Ind.
