Ohio State Hosts Ohio Tuesday Evening at Buckeye Field
4/3/2023 11:59:50 AM | Softball
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COLUMBUS, Ohio – A four-game homestand for Ohio State begins tomorrow as the Buckeyes welcome Ohio to Columbus for a midweek non-conference game. First pitch is scheduled for 6 p.m.
How To Follow Along
- Admission to games at Buckeye Field is free. Parking is also free and available in the lots surrounding Jesse Owens Memorial Stadium, Buckeye Field and Bill Davis Stadium.
- Tomorrow’s game will be streamed live on BTN+
- A link for live stats will be available on the schedule page of OhioStateBuckeyes.com
The Basics
Ohio at Ohio State // Tuesday, April 4 // 6 p.m. // Columbus, Ohio; Buckeye Field
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Basics on the Buckeyes
- Ohio State is 21-11 on the season and has won 15 of its last 19 games.
- The Buckeyes continue to possess one of the Big Ten’s best overall batting average. Ohio State is hitting at a .319 clip as a team and has also increased its power numbers as of late.
- Ohio State’s .498 team slugging percentage includes 93 extra base hits.
- Melina Wilkison leads the team with a .421 average and has hit a home run in four of the last five games. She has seven doubles, a team-high five triples and six home runs.
- Wilkson is also the first member of Ohio State’s 30-30 club for the season: She has 30 RBI and 30 runs scored.
- The hottest bat last weekend for Ohio State at Indiana was that of senior Sam Hackenbracht. She hit .733 for the week with 11 hits in 15 at-bats, including a home run, three doubles and seven RBI.
- In the series finale at Indiana, Hackenbracht went 4-for-4 with a home run, double and three RBI.
- Sophomore Kami Kortokrax has increased her batting average by nearly 60 points from last season; she checks in at .356 so far this season and has a team-best 11 doubles.
- Ohio State’s pitching staff is led by a pair of juniors: Allison Smith (11-6) and Emily Ruck (5-5).
- Smith is averaging better than a strikeout per inning: 135 Ks in 107.0 innings.
- Ruck has 13 starts and six complete games to her credit in 61.1 innings of action.
History vs. Ohio
- Tuesday will be the 73rd meeting all-time between the two teams. The Buckeyes lead the series, 50-22.
- The last Ohio/Ohio State matchup in Columbus was in April of 2019, a 4-3 win for the Buckeyes.
- Last season, Ohio State won 6-1 in Athens on the strength of home runs from Hackenbracht and Meggie Otte.
Buckeye/Bobcat Connections
- Ohio head coach Jenna Hall spent seven seasons as an assistant coach at Ohio State (2013-19) and helped the Buckeyes reach four consecutive NCAA Tournaments.
- One of the All-Americans that she coached with the Buckeyes, Lilli Piper, is an assistant coach at OU with Hall.
- Piper, one of the all-time great players in Ohio State history, was a three-time All-American who set the program single-season record for home runs (20) in 2018.
Buckeye This and That
- In Ohio State’s series finale at Indiana on Sunday, senior Sam Hackenbracht drove in her 100th career run.
- In the last 10 games, Hackenbracht is hitting .567 with 15 RBI, three home runs and a .967 slugging percentage.
- Not to be outdone, Melina Wilkison has nine extra base hits in the last 10 contests (four home runs, two triples and three doubles).
- Ohio State is averaging nearly six runs per game for the season and in the last 15 games has scored 10 or more runs five times.
- Freshman Hannah Church currently as the team’s longest hitting streak at six games. In that span, she’s batting .353 with seven RBI.
- Melina Wilkson has reached base in 24 consecutive games and has a five-game hitting streak.
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