Postgame Notes – Ohio State 9, Indiana 0, Game Two – Ohio State Buckeyes
4/29/2007 12:00:00 AM | Softball
April 29, 2007
Recap | Box Score
– Game two Sunday against Indiana lasted only an hour and 8 minutes, which marks the shortest Big Ten game at Buckeye Field since game duration records were first kept in 1998. The previous low of one hour and 9 minutes lasted only one day. That came Saturday against Purdue.
– Ohio State has won 17 of its last 20 games.
– The Buckeyes are now 25-5 this season when they score first.
– The Buckeyes scored twice in the first inning in game two and are now 15-4 this season when they score in the first inning.
– Buckeyes at the plate: Senior Lauren Daykin went 5-for-5 in the doubleheader Sunday and is now a team best 7-for-10 (.700) in her career against Indiana.
– Sophomore Courtney Pruner doubled in the third inning to extend her current hitting streak to a career-best seven games. During those seven games she is batting .550 (11-20). In her last 12 games, Pruner is batting .576 (19-33) and the only game in which she did not get a hit was April 20 at Illinois, when she hit a game-tying, pinch-hit, RBI groundout.
– Pruner and senior Christina Douglas share the team-lead in batting average in Big Ten games only at .395. Both players are 15-for-38 in league games.
– Senior Nycole Koyano stole her 15th-consecutive stolen base Sunday in game two, extending her personal career best streak for not getting caught stealing.
– Junior Brittany Vanderink also stole her 15th-consecutive base Sunday in game two, which is a career-best streak for her, as well.
– Freshman Sam Marder, who already owns the Ohio State freshman RBI record, drove in her 43rd run of the season in game two Sunday, which gives her sole possession of third place on the OSU single-season RBI list. Marder had been tied with Jen Fredrickson (1994) with 42 RBI. – Buckeyes in the field: For the eighth time in 14 Big Ten games this season, Ohio State did not commit an error. In Big Ten games only, the Buckeyes lead the conference in fielding percentage at .977.
– Weather: Sunny and 70 degrees at first pitch. Breeze 0-10 MPH out to right.
– The Buckeyes are now 29-50-2 all-time against Indiana, including 14-14 at Buckeye Field. Ohio State is now 12-2 against Indiana since 2001.
– Indiana received an at-large bid to the NCAA tournament last year and went 30-25-1 overall and 8-9 in the Big Ten. The Hoosiers have seven starters and 14 letterwinners back in 2007.
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