Ohio State Sweeps Wisconsin with 9-2 Win in Game Two – Ohio State Buckeyes
4/1/2007 12:00:00 AM | Softball
April 1, 2007
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COLUMBUS, Ohio – Pounding out a season-high 13 hits in the game and keyed by a six-run fourth inning, the Ohio State softball team completed a doubleheader sweep of Wisconsin Sunday with a 9-2 win in game two at Buckeye Field. Ohio State improves to 21-13 overall and is 4-0 in the Big Ten for the first time since its conference championship season of 1990.
Wisconsin (16-10, 0-4 Big Ten) had never been swept by the Buckeyes. Likewise, Ohio State senior Jamee Juarez (La Puente, Calif./Wilson) entered the game with 63 career wins, but had never beaten the Badgers. Both streaks came to an end as Juarez struck out nine and scattered six hits in 6.2 innings of work for her first career win over Wisconsin.
“We are off to a good start but we still have a long Big Ten season ahead of us,” Linda Kalafatis, Ohio State head coach, said. “We accomplished a lot today but we still have a lot of work to do. We came out and protected our home territory but we knew Wisconsin is accustomed to coming back. In the second game the key was that we continued to score. After the completion of the fifth inning in the first game, all of the numbers on the scoreboard were even for runs, hits and errors, and I told them whoever outplays the other in the last two innings will win the game.”
Coming off a 4-3 win in game one that saw the Buckeyes get their game-winning run in their final at bat, Ohio State would not make game two as dramatic. Leading 1-0 going into the fourth inning, the Buckeyes batted around, collecting seven hits and scoring six runs.
Senior Megan Schwab (Glendale, Ariz./Sunrise Mountain) notched a season-high three hits in the game, two of which came in Ohio State’s big fourth inning. She led off the frame with her third home run of the season and 17th of her career and added a single later in the inning. In the fourth, senior Lauren Daykin (Melbourne, Australia/Manatee C.C., Fla.) hit an RBI double off the wall, junior Liz Caputo (Riverside, Calif./Riverside Poly) hit an RBI single and senior Nycole Koyano (Walnut, Calif./Walnut) hit a two-run single and later scored on two wild pitches.
Other RBIs in the game came from Caputo in the third inning, senior Christina Douglas (Mesa, Ariz./Dobson) in the seventh and sophomore Courtney Pruner (Akron, Ohio/Ellet) in the seventh.
The Buckeyes will not play another home Big Ten game until April 27, but play four-consecutive Wednesday night home doubleheaders, beginning this coming Wednesday against Ohio State. First pitch is scheduled for 5 p.m.
### Go Bucks! ###
