Postgame Notes – Ohio State 8, Purdue 0 – Ohio State Buckeyes
4/28/2007 12:00:00 AM | Softball
April 28, 2007
Recap | Box Score
– In Big Ten games this season, Jamee Juarez is 7-1 with a 1.74 ERA and 64 strikeouts against only five walks in 44.1 innings pitched … the shutout was the 25th career shutout by Juarez, which is one shy of the OSU record of 26 held by Katie Chain from 2000-03 … Juarez is now 10 strikeouts away from Chain’s Ohio State career record of 692.
– The game Saturday lasted only an hour and nine minutes, Ohio State’s shortest game of the season and the shortest Big Ten game at Buckeye Field since game durations were first kept in 1998.
– OSU has won 15 of its last 18 games.
– The Buckeyes are now 23-5 this season when they score first.
– Ohio State did not commit an error Saturday for the seventh time in 12 Big Ten games this season. In conference games only, the Buckeyes lead the Big Ten with a .976 fielding percentage.
– Saturday marked Ohio State’s first mercy-rule victory against a Big Ten opponent since last season against Michigan State when the Buckeyes won 13-4 at Buckeye Field April 23.
– Buckeyes at the plate: Sam Marder’s three-run homer in the third inning was her 10th of the season, which ties the Ohio State record for home runs in a season by a freshman. Kristin Himes hit 10 as a freshman in 2000.
– The triple by Jamee Juarez was her first of the season and sixth of her career … Juarez now owns 121 career runs batted in, which rank third in Ohio State history … in her career against Purdue, Juarez owns a .421 (8-19) batting average.
– Sophomore Courtney Pruner’s three hits Saturday tied her career high. – Junior Brittany Vanderink went 1-for-2 Saturday, giving her a team-best .429 (6-14) career average against Purdue.
– Weather: Cloudy and 54 degrees at first pitch. Wind 5-15 MPH out to right. Warming during game, sunny by fourth inning.
– Ohio State is now 15-9 all-time against Purdue, including 9-6 against the Boilermakers at Buckeye Field.
– Purdue has four starters and 11 letterwinners back from its 2006 team that went 30-30 overall and 7-12 in the Big Ten.
### GO BUCKS! ###
