Buckeye Best: Feb 24 – Mar 2, 2020
3/2/2020 3:31:39 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. 24 – Mar. 2, 2020
Athletics Good Stuff
- Congratulations to Karen Dennis, her staff and women’s track and field team, which won its second consecutive Big Ten indoor championship over the weekend. The Buckeyes were led by junior sprinter Anavia Battle, who captured top honors in the 60-meter dash (7.29 seconds) and 200-meter dash (22.79 seconds). In addition, Emma Nwofor was victorious in the 60-meter hurdles (:08.07) and Adelaide Aquilla won the shot put (17.82 meters). This is the fourth indoor title all-time for the women. The Buckeye men were fifth at the indoor championships.
- The No. 5 women’s tennis team, playing in front of one of the Top 10 largest crowds in women’s tennis over the last 25 years, defeated No. 2 Florida State, 4-3, yesterday at the USTA National Campus in Lake Nona, Fla., to improve to 8-3 on the year. The match was part of USTA’s College MatchDay series and it was televised by the Tennis Channel. FSU won the doubles point but No. 11 Shiori Fukuda, No. 60 Danielle Wolf and Luna Dormet won their singles matches before Kolie Allen won a three-setter for the match-clinching victory.
- Soph. rifle team member Ariel Hall has advanced out of the NCAA qualifier rounds and will compete at the NCAA Championships next month (March 13-14) in Lexington, Ky.
- The men’s basketball team is on a roll with eight wins in its last 10 games. Before an electric crowd of nearly 19,000 at Value City Arena, the Buckeyes swept their season series with Michigan yesterday with a 77-63 victory to improve to 20-9 overall and 10-8 in the Big Ten. Earlier in the week, an absolute monster game from Kareem Abdul-Jabbar award finalist Kaleb Wesson – 16 points and 18 rebounds – powered the team to a 75-54 thrashing of Nebraska.
- Congratulations, also, to Bill Dorenkott and staff for a runner-up finish at the Big Ten men’s swimming and diving championships, the 12th consecutive year for a Top 3 finish. Senior Andrew Loy was a two-time champion for the Buckeyes, winning the 200 individual medley and the 200 freestyle, and freshman Lyle Yost won the platform diving competition.
- The women’s hockey team swept a first-round WCHA playoff series over Minnesota State, 4-2, and 1-0. Liz Schepers scored the only goal in the clincher and Andrea Braendli was in net for the shutout. No. 5 Ohio State, 22-8-6 and a winner of four consecutive games, advances to the WCHA Final Faceoff round in Minneapolis this weekend and will play Minnesota.
- Men’s hockey, 18-11-5 overall, is the No. 2 seed for the Big Ten tournament and will host the Wisconsin Badgers in a best-of-three series this Friday, Saturday and, if necessary, Sunday at Value City Arena. Counting this past weekend’s action, the two teams could end up playing five times in 10 days.
- Wins in seven of its final nine games, including a 77-56 pounding of Purdue on the road Saturday, positions the 18-11 women’s basketball Buckeyes as the No. 6 seed in this week’s Big Ten tournament in Indianapolis and with a first-round bye. Ohio State will meet the winner of the Wednesday game between Penn State and Minnesota at right-about-dinner-time Thursday, March 5.
- Head coach Greg Beals won his 300th game as Buckeye skipper with Ohio State’s win over Lipscomb Friday. Beals is the fourth coach for Ohio State’s oldest sport to win 300 games. He now has 543 career victories, including 243 in eight seasons at Ball State.
- Hockey forward Emma Maltais and defender Jincy Dunne have been selected first-team All-WCHA. This is the third first-team all-WCHA honor for Maltais, who is a junior.
- The men’s gymnastics team improved to 3-3 on the dual meet season with a win over Navy, 408.900-397.200. Six Buckeyes won (or tied for first) on events: Kazuki Hayashi (floor), Rihards Trams and Luke Smigliani (pommel horse), Max Andryushchenko (rings), Justin Ah Chow (parallel bars) and Angel Leon (parallel bars).
- Freshman Elexis Edwards starred in her collegiate debut, scoring a 9.925 on vault to claim first place in a four-team women’s gymnastics meet at the University of Missouri. Olivia Aepli took first on floor with a score of 9.875.
- Men’s volleyball went 2-2 on a four-match road swing and now returns to Covelli for two matches this week with a 10-7 overall record.
- Justin Inacio broke his own school record with 30 face-off wins and Tre Leclaire tied his career high with six goals in a hard-fought decision against Cornell Sunday … a match between two Top 20 programs. Inacio’s total was just two off the NCAA record and third-most in NCAA history. Earlier in the week, Jack Myers was named Big Ten lacrosse’s Offensive Player of the Week honors after an eight-point game vs. Bucknell.
- Ali Beekhuizen and Sophie Baez each registered three-goal hat tricks but No. 19 UMass edged the Buckeyes, 21-16, in a women’s lacrosse game played in Milton, Ga.
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