Road Trip to Indiana Awaits Buckeyes This Weekend
4/15/2021 12:56:13 PM | Softball
COLUMBUS, Ohio – Ohio State’s second true road series on the 2021 season takes it west to Bloomington, Ind. this weekend as the Buckeyes and Hoosiers meet for four games Friday-Sunday.
The Basics
Ohio State at Indiana // Friday, April 16 // 4 p.m. // Bloomington, Ind.
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Ohio State at Indiana (Gm. 1) // Saturday, April 17 // Noon // Bloomington, Ind.
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Ohio State at Indiana (Gm. 2) // Saturday, April 17 // 2:30 p.m. // Bloomington, Ind.
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Ohio State at Indiana // Sunday, April 18 // 2:30 p.m. // Bloomington, Ind.
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How to Follow Along
The first three games of this weekend’s series will be carried on BTN Plus (subscription required). The series finale, set for Sunday at 2:30 p.m., will air live on BTN. Lisa Byington and Elise Menaker will be on the call.
Briefly on the Buckeyes
- Ohio State enters the weekend series with a 13-10 overall record.
- Since campus-series began the weekend of March 26-28, the Buckeyes are 7-4 with series wins over Maryland (three of four) and Penn State (all three games).
- The Buckeyes are hitting .261 as a team and have three starters who all currently check with a batting average of .300 or better: Tegan Cortelletti (.367), Mariah Rodriguez (.311) and Sam Hackenbracht (.309).
- Hackenbracht has the best power numbers of that group, checking in with a .673 slugging percentage with 10 extra base hits (five doubles, five home runs).
- Ohio State’s 13 home runs have been hit by six different players. Hackenbracht leads with five, followed by Niki Carver (four) and one each for Ashley Prange, Meggie Otte, Carley Gaskill and Kaitlyn Coffman.
- The pitching duo of Allison Smith and Payton Buresch have pitched 147.2 of Ohio State’s 163.1 total innings.
- Buresch leads with 12 games started and a 1.90 earned-run average. She’s given up two or less earned runs in 10 of her 12 starts.
- Smith averages a strikeout per inning (75 Ks, 74.0 innings) and her .225 batting average against in the best on the team. She also had a team-best seven complete games.
Scouting Indiana
- The Hoosiers are 11-13 on the season but are coming off a series win at Purdue last weekend. Indiana split a doubleheader on Friday and then won single games on Saturday and Sunday.
- Indiana leads the Big Ten with 67 stolen bases. Last weekend, Gabby Jenkins became the program’s all-time leader in that category with 91.
- Pitcher Emily Goodin leads the team in every statistical category. She’s appeared in 21 of the Hoosiers’ 24 games and has a 2.84 ERA in 95.0 innings.
The Ohio State/Indiana Series
- The Buckeyes and Hoosiers have split the last 10 meetings dating back to 2016.
- The last time the two teams met – March 22-24, 2019 – Ohio State swept the Hoosiers in Columbus.
- The home team is 6-0 in the last six meetings in the series.
The Last 10 Games
- The Buckeye bats have heated up as of late. Over the last 10 games – which include six wins – Ohio State is hitting .306 as a team.
- Included in that are 29 extra base hits (10 home runs) and a .504 team slugging percentage.
- Sam Hackenbracht and Mariah Rodriguez are both hitting .400 or better in that span (Hackenbracht: .440 with four home runs and nine RBI; Rodriguez: .400 with three doubles and a triple).
- Ohio State scored 48 runs over the last 10 games (4.8 runs per game).
