Reeder, Marder Lead Ohio State Past UMass, 4-1 – Ohio State Buckeyes
3/11/2007 12:00:00 AM | Softball
March 11, 2007
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CLEARWATER, Fla. – Sophomore Kim Reeder allowed only four hits and one run in 6.1 innings and freshman Sam Marder (Calabasas, Calif./Calabasas) went 3-for-4 with two runs batted in to lead the Ohio State softball team to a 4-1 win over Massachusetts Sunday morning in the semifinals of the Silver Flight at the USF adidas Invitational at Eddie C. Moore Complex in Clearwater.
The Buckeyes (12-9) advance to face Virginia Tech (20-7) in the Silver title game at 12:30 p.m. Sunday. UMass (8-8-1) scored its lone run in a comeback bid in the bottom of the seventh but senior Jamee Juarez (La Puente, Calif./Wilson) came in to get the final two outs and earn her first save of the season.
Reeder (Salinas, Calif./Notre Dame H.S.) improves to 8-3 in the circle this season. She struck out six and walked four and the Buckeyes did not commit an error behind her.
Marder notched her first three-hit game as a Buckeye and extended her hitting streak to a personal-best six games.
The Buckeyes scored three runs in the third inning on four hits. Junior Liz Caputo (Riverside, Calif./Riverside Poly) hit a one out single up the middle and scored on an RBI single up the middle by junior Brittany Vanderink (Hiram, Ohio/Crestwood). Back-to-back doubles from Marder and senior Megan Schwab (Glendale, Ariz./Sunrise Mountain) brought home two more.
Senior Nycole Koyano (Walnut, Calif./Walnut) led off the fifth inning with a single to center field, stole second and scored on a line drive single to left by Marder.
Postgame Notes – Ohio State 4, Massachusetts 1
– Buckeyes at the plate: freshman Sam Marder drove in her team-leading 22nd and 23rd runs of the season Sunday morning. Marder has seven multiple-RBI games already this season. Last year, Jamee Juarez led Ohio State with 10 multiple-RBI games … Marder and Brittany Vanderink extended their current hitting streaks to six games each.
– Buckeyes in the circle: Kim Reeder has won five of her last six decisions … the save for Jamee Juarez was the second of her career and first since her freshman season.
– Buckeyes in the field: for the second-consecutive game the Buckeyes did not commit an error … catcher Sam Marder threw out her eighth would-be base stealer of the season.
– Weather: Sunny and 65 degrees at first pitch. Slight breeze right to left.
– Ohio State is now 3-3 all-time against UMass. These teams last met in 2004 when they played twice in neutral site tournaments. UMass won 8-0 in Tempe, Ariz., in the Buckeyes’ season-opener, then won again 4-3 in 10 innings at the NFCA Leadoff Classic in Columbus, Ga., despite 16 strikeouts from OSU’s Jamee Juarez, which still stand as her career high.
– UMass won the Atlantic 10 Conference last year, then hosted and won an NCAA regional, knocking out seeded Texas A&M. The Minutewomen then lost in the NCAA Super Regionals at eventual national runner-up Northwestern.
### GO BUCKS! ###
