Buckeye Best: Jan 17 – 21
1/21/2020 5:51:20 PM | General
It’s always a great week to be a Buckeye! Check out the latest edition of Buckeye Best then scroll through some of last week’s best photos.
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Jan. 17 – Jan. 21, 2020
Athletics Good Stuff
- Ohio State’s rich football history was flexing last week as seven Buckeyes were included among the 150 greatest players ever, led by all-time great Archie Griffin at No. 4. Also ranked and honored were No. 38 RB Eddie George, No. 44 SAF/LB Jack Tatum, No. 47 RB Howard “Hopalong” Cassady, No. 51 OT Orlando Pace, No. 141 OG Jim Parker and No. 143 LB Chris Spielman.
- The men’s hockey team, 9-1-2 at home this year, went 1-0-1 against Notre Dame this weekend, including a 2-1 victory Saturday before nearly 10,000 fans at Value City Arena. Friday will be the night to remember, though: the Buckeyes trailed the Irish 3-0 entering the third but secured the tie by scoring four goals in the final eight minutes. Tallying were Gordi Myer, Austin Pooley, Quinn Preston and Gustaf Westlund.
- How about women’s hockey! The team defeated No. 1 Minnesota in October – handing the Gophers their first loss – and they defeated No. 1 Minnesota again Friday night in Minneapolis, 4-1, to hand them just their second loss of the season. Gabby Rosenthal scored twice while Rebecca Freiburger and Sophie Jaques notched a goal and an assist each. The teams met again Saturday with UM edging the Buckeyes, 2-1, in a game played outdoors as part of Hockey Day Minnesota 2020. No. 5 Ohio State is now 15-6-4 on the year.
- A 40-10 scoring stampede in the final 15 minutes of the game broke a 37-all tie and carried the women’s basketball team to a 77-47 win over Illinois Sunday. Freshmen led: Kierstan Bell had a career-high 19 points; Rebeka Mikulasikova had 12 points and Jacey Sheldon 10.
- It was a big weekend for the 7-1 and No.4 ranked wrestling team: the Buckeyes defeated No. 8 Wisconsin in Madison, 24-13, and then came home and rolled over Illinois, 28-6, by flicking away an early 6-0 deficit to score 28 consecutive points to close out the match.
- Congratulations to wrestlers Kollin Moore and Luke Pletcher, who each won the 100th match of his career this weekend: Moore’s in the Wisconsin dual and Pletcher’s vs. Illinois. Both wrestlers are the No. 1 ranked wrestlers in their weight classes – Moore at 197 and Pletcher at 141 – and both are 18-0 this season.
- The No. 5 fencing teams competed consecutively at the St. John’s Duals and the Philadelphia Invitational this weekend with the women posting a strong, 8-2 record over the two tournaments, going 4-1 at each.
- Women’s track and field team placed third in a tri-meet against Michigan and Michigan State. Victorious Buckeyes were Morgan Lewis (60-meter hurdles), Devine Parker (60-meter dash), Adelaide Aquilla (shot put), Jayden Woods (400) and Nya Bussey (200).
- The men’s track and field team also placed second against Michigan and Michigan State. Leading the Buckeyes: Clarence Foote-Talley won the long jump for the second time in his two-meet career and he also won the triple jump. Additional Buckeye wins came from Tavonte Mott (200), Eric Harrison Jr. (60-meter dash), R.J. Russell (600), Robby Oswald (pole vault) and freshman Shaun Miller Jr. won high jump for the second time in his young career.
- The men’s tennis team is quickly 4-0 after defeating Northern Kentucky, Dayton, Xavier and Wright State last week while nary losing a set.
- Men’s volleyball is 5-0, capping a five-match homestand to start the season with wins over Lincoln Memorial and Kings last week.
- Olivia Aepli won two more individual events – giving her five wins in the first two meets this season – but the women’s gymnastics team was edged by Michigan State on the road, 195.450-195.275, to see its record evened at 1-1 on the year.
- Men’s gymnastics opened its season this weekend by taking second in a tri-meet that featured No. 1 Oklahoma and also Arizona State. Richard Trams tied for first on pommel horse with a score of 13.500.
- Mary Beth Hurley (3-0) and nationally ranked (#11) Shiori Fukuda (2-0) were unbeaten in singles matches at the non-scoring Michigan Invitational tennis tournament this past weekend in Ann Arbor.
- The Ohio State air pistol trio of Katelyn Abeln, Samuel Gens and Shrenik Jain took first at the Camp Perry Open, held this past weekend in Port Clinton, Ohio. Abeln also took first in the junior individual event.
- The season doesn’t open for another week, but put these two on your lacrosse watch list this year: seniors Tre Leclaire and Ryan Terefenko are each three-time All-Americans and they could become the first four-time All-Americans in school history.
- And time to welcome home two former Buckeyes: Jen Flynn Oldenburg, who led Ohio State to four consecutive NCAA appearances as a player in the late 1990s, is the new women’s volleyball head coach; and Kerry Coombs, a six-year secondary coach for Ohio State who spent the last two seasons in the NFL with Tennessee, is the football team’s new defensive coordinator.
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