Postgame Notes – UAB 3, Ohio State 1 – Ohio State Buckeyes
3/4/2007 12:00:00 AM | Softball
March 4, 2007
Recap | Box Score
– Ohio State senior Nycole Koyano’s three-hit effort vs. UAB Sunday marked the Buckeyes’ first three-hit game of the season. Her career-best offensive day was a four-hit game against Rutgers in Ohio State’s 2005 season-opener.
– The homer for Koyano was her first of the season and eighth of her career.
– In the four games this weekend in Birmingham, Sam Marder led Ohio State with a .444 average, going 4-for-9. Senior Nycole Koyano (4-for-14) and freshman Tory Haddad (2-for-7) were next offensively with a .286 average for each. Sophomore Kim Reeder led the pitching staff with a 0.00 ERA and two wins in 14.0 innings pitched.
– Saturday night, Ohio State and Alabama-Birmingham met for the first time in softball. It was the first time UAB had ever faced a Big Ten program since becoming a varsity program in 2000.
– Ohio State is now 5-4 all-time in the state of Alabama after going 3-2 last year at Alabama’s Crimson Classic in Tuscaloosa, which included a 3-1 win over then-No. 4 Alabama.
– UAB has nine starters back from its 2006 team that went 31-22 and tied for second in Conference USA. The Blazers were picked fourth in the C-USA preseason coaches’ poll. The Blazers were 16-6 on their home field at George Ward Park last year.
– The Magic City Classic this weekend includes the visiting Buckeyes and the three Div. I programs in Birmingham, including Samford, Alabama-Birmingham and Birmingham-Southern. Birmingham became known as the “Magic City” in the 1860s due to its “phenomenal rate of economic growth in its beginning” shortly after the Civil War.
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