Buckeye Best: Oct. 21-Oct. 28
10/28/2019 1:37:14 PM | General
It was once again a great week for the Buckeyes! Check out the latest edition of Buckeye Best then scroll through some of last week’s best photos.
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Oct. 21-Oct. 28, 2019
Athletics Good Stuff
- DE Chase Young and RB J.K. Dobbins were named the Big Ten’s respective defensive and offensive players of the week for their efforts in the win over Wisconsin. Young had four sacks and was also named the Walter Camp national defensive player of the week. Dobbins rushed for 163 yards and became the first Buckeye ever to rush for 1,000-or-more yards as a freshman, sophomore and junior.
- The field hockey team won twice on the road this weekend – 2-1 over Penn State and 4-0 over Kent State – to improve to 8-8 on the season.
- The nationally ranked women’s hockey team handed undefeated and No. 2 Minnesota its first loss of the season with a 4-3 win Friday night at the OSU Ice Rink, part of a weekend split. Ohio State is now 5-3-2 overall and we’re pleased head coach Nadine Muzerall and assistants Milica McMillen and Emily West, all Minnesota alums, have traded in “Ski-U-Mah” for “Go Bucks!”
- Kaleb Wesson is among 20 preseason candidates for the Karl Malone Award that recognizes the top power forward in men’s college basketball.
- Men’s hockey swept Mercyhurst over the weekend to improve to 4-1-1. Wyatt Ege had a hat trick in the 7-2 Game 1 win and Gustaf Westlund contributed two goals in each game, including the 3-1 win in Game 2.
- John McNally won the singles title and then teamed with freshman Robert Cash to win the doubles crown at the ITA Midwest Regional Championship at the OSU Varsity Tennis Center last week.
- At the women’s ITA Midwest Regional championships in East Lansing, Shiori Fukuda was runner-up in the singles final and she paired with Luna Dormet to a runner-up finish in doubles.
- Four former basketball Buckeyes have opened their respective NBA seasons: Keita Bates-Diop with Minnesota; Mike Conley with Utah; D’Angelo Russell with Golden State and Evan Turner with Atlanta.
- A total of 51 members of the cheer, dance and Brutus spirit squads were awarded Varsity O letters for the first time in program history. The Dept. of Athletics will also retroactively award one varsity letter to all former spirit team members. “O-H …”
- Three wrestlers – heavyweights Greg Kerkvliet and Chase Singletary and 55-km. Greco Roman wrestler Brady Koontz – will be representing the United States later this week at the U23 World Wrestling Championships in Budapest, Hungary.
- Former women’s basketball player Makayla Waterman will be a student assistant coach with the program this year. She follows in a long line of coaches in her family: her father was the boys coach at Dayton Dunbar High School and her grandfather, Ben Waterman, coached for over 60 years, including for Ohio State under Fred Taylor.
- The 100th season of Ohio State wrestling officially opens Saturday at the Michigan State open.
- Rising star Dorka Juhasz has been named preseason all-Big Ten Conference. The native of Pecs, Hungary led the women’s basketball team in both scoring and rebounding last season as a freshman.
- The pistol team won the Rocky Mountain Invitational for the third consecutive year as Shrenik Jain and Samuel Gens took first in standard pistol and air pistol, respectively.
- Congratulations, once again, to director of track and field and cross country Karen Dennis, who was inducted into her alma mater’s – Michigan State – Athletics Hall of Fame.
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