Buckeye Best: Feb 17- 24, 2020
2/24/2020 4:33:47 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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Feb. 17 – Feb. 24, 2020
Athletics Good Stuff
- Congratulations to the Big Ten Conference champion women’s swimming and diving team, which won the sixth team title in school history and first in 34 years (1986). Three Buckeyes won individual Big Ten titles – Kathrin Demler (500 free), Mackenzie Crawford (1-meter springboard), Molly Kowal (1,650 free) – and the 200 free relay team of Taylor Petrak, Freya Rayner, Amy Fulmer and Lucija Jurkovic-Periscija was also victorious. It was a total team effort. “A lot of belief, a lot of faith and a heck of a lot of hard work,” said head coach Bill Dorenkott.
- And how about this: Dorenkott is now a four-time Big Ten Conference champion as a head coach which moves him into sole possession of fifth place in Big Ten women’s swimming history. And this needs to be researched: has there been a swimming head coach – men’s or women’s – win a Big Ten title with two schools? Dorenkott won three at Penn State. Hmmm…
- It was a great weekend for coach Don Anthony, his staff and fencers as both the women’s and men’s teams won Midwest Fencing Conference championships at French Field House. Buckeye fencers swept the individual event titles on Saturday with Alexanne Verret (epee), Camilla Rivano (foil), Julieta Toledo (sabre), Henry Lange (epee), Diego Cervantes (foil) and Roscoe Swartz (sabre) all winning championships. The men have now won back-to-back MFC titles.
- Men’s basketball improved its record to 4-0 against Top 10 teams (victories over Villanova, North Carolina, Kentucky and now Maryland) with a 79-72 win over Maryland Sunday. Five Buckeyes were in double figures led by Luther Muhammad’s 22. Ohio State is 18-10 overall and 8-8 in the Big Ten.
- Three goals in the final five minutes powered men’s hockey to a 4-2 comeback victory at Michigan State on Saturday. The win gave Ohio State a sweep of the weekend series and moved it into a second-place tie in the Big Ten standings with 37 points, trailing only Penn State (41 pts.), which has completed its league schedule. No. 12 Ohio State hosts Wisconsin this weekend very much in the running for a championship.
- It was senior weekend for the women’s hockey team and 3-0 and 6-3 wins over St. Cloud State gives the Buckeyes a third consecutive 20-win season, extending the school record of 20-or-more victory seasons. Honored this weekend were seniors Elise Riemenschneider, Rebecca Freiburger, Olivia Soares and Jincy Dunne. The No. 5 Buckeyes are 20-8-6 and will host a WCHA first-round playoff series this weekend.
- Emma Maltais, who set the OSU single season scoring record this weekend and now has 55 points on the year, has been named a Patty Kazmaier Memorial Award Top 10 finalist. The award honors the top player in women’s hockey. The three overall finalists will be announced this Thursday.
- Dorka Juhasz had consecutive points-rebounds double-doubles this past week to help the Buckeyes to a 1-1 mark. Included was a 16-point, 16-rebound effort vs. Nebraska. Ohio State has won six of its last seven games and is positioned nicely in the Big Ten Conference with a17-10 overall record and a 10-6 league mark heading into the final week of the regular season.
- Way to go, Joe! The Collegiate Sports Video Association has named Joe Stanek, our director of football technology, its Big Ten Video Coordinator of the Year. Stanek is now up for the national coordinator of the year honors, which will be announced in May.
- Nine different players scored goals and goalie Jill Rizzo set a school record with her 600th career save as the women’s lacrosse team moved to 4-1 on the season under first-year coach Amy Bokker with a 15-10 win over Cincinnati.
- A season’s best score of 196.475 helped the women gymnasts go 2-2 against Big Ten competition at the Big Five meet this weekend in Toledo. The team scored above 49.000 on each apparatus with Ella Hodges taking first on balance beam and Claire Gagliardi taking first on floor.
- The No. 6 women’s tennis team defeated both Kentucky, 5-1, and No. 24 Arizona State, 5-0, at home this weekend to improve to 6-3 on the year.
- Women’s golf is in ninth place out of 15 teams heading into today’s final round at the Westbrook Invitational in Peoria, Ariz.
- Tamani Wilson (200 meters), Adelaide Aquilla (shot put) and Ryan Harrington (400 meters) were victorious for the women’s and men’s track and field teams this weekend at the Alex Wilson Invitational, hosted by Notre Dame.
- The No. 17 men’s lacrosse team erased a 4-1 deficit with eight consecutive goals and then never looked back on its way to a 15-11 win at No. 20 Bucknell this weekend. The starting attack unit of Jack Myers(four goals), Tre Leclaire (four) and Jackson Reid (three) combined to score 11 of the 15 goals.
- Men’s tennis is ranked No. 2 in the nation and is 13-1 with four players ranked among the top 70 singles players in the country: No. 7 John McNally (18-4 record); No. 12 Cannon Kingsley (17-2); No. 33Kyle Seelig (17-6); and No. 70 Jim Trotter (16-2).
- You knew this honor was coming: Madison Green was named Big Ten women’s basketball freshman of the week last week after averaging 23.5 points, 5.0 assists and shooting 68.4 percent from the field in two Buckeye wins.
- Freshman softball standout Avery Clark is two-for-two in terms of Big Ten freshman of the week honors. She was named again last week after batting .500 and slugging 1.250 with three home runs, three runs scored and six hits.
- Gabby Rosenthal (three points) and Andrea Braendli (74 saves) were named the WCHA’s forward and goaltender of the week, respectively, after the Buckeyes’ big weekend win and tie at No. 2 Wisconsin.
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