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Buckeyes Open Season Thursday vs. Miami (Ohio)
8/15/2023 11:56:00 PM | General, Women's Soccer
Ohio State vs. Miami (Ohio)
Date: August 17, 2023
Time: 7:00 p.m.
Venue: Columbus, Ohio – Jesse Owens Memorial Stadium
Watch: BTN+
Live Stats: OhioStateBuckeyes.com
Game Notes: Ohio State | Miami (Ohio)
Rosters: Ohio State | Miami (Ohio)
COLUMBUS, Ohio – Ohio State is set for the 2023 season as the Buckeyes will host in-state foe Miami (Ohio) in the season-opener on Thursday. First touch is set for 7 p.m. from Jesse Owens Memorial Stadium. Greg Franke and Hanna Williford will call the action on BTN+.
Admission and parking are free for all Ohio State women's soccer matches.
Date: August 17, 2023
Time: 7:00 p.m.
Venue: Columbus, Ohio – Jesse Owens Memorial Stadium
Watch: BTN+
Live Stats: OhioStateBuckeyes.com
Game Notes: Ohio State | Miami (Ohio)
Rosters: Ohio State | Miami (Ohio)
COLUMBUS, Ohio – Ohio State is set for the 2023 season as the Buckeyes will host in-state foe Miami (Ohio) in the season-opener on Thursday. First touch is set for 7 p.m. from Jesse Owens Memorial Stadium. Greg Franke and Hanna Williford will call the action on BTN+.
Admission and parking are free for all Ohio State women's soccer matches.
- Ohio State opens its 31st season of women's soccer with a pair of home matches this weekend, beginning with Miami (Ohio) on Thursday evening. On Sunday afternoon, Ohio State will entertain Buffalo.
- The Buckeyes have a 17-9-4 all-time record in season-openers. They won last year's opener 1-0 at Kansas on a 69th-minute goal by Emma Sears. That was their first season-opening win since 2017.
- Ohio State has not won a season-opener at home since beating Kent State 3-0 in 2016.
- The Buckeyes are 2-0-0 all-time against Miami (Ohio). They won 6-0 on Oct. 22, 1997, and then won 1-0 on a 39th minute goal by Kayla Fischer on Sept. 13, 2019. Both of those games were played at home.
- Ohio State is 27-4-3 all-time against teams currently in the Mid-American Conference. The last loss to a MAC team was 1-0 double-overtime loss at Toledo on Sept. 2, 2014. The lone home loss was a 2-0 setback to Bowling Green way back in 2001.
- All-time against schools from Ohio, the Buckeyes are 58-15-5.
- The Buckeyes are under the direction of head coach Lori Walker-Hock who is in her 27th season with the program and her 29th overall as a head coach. She has 282 wins at Ohio State and is just five wins away from 300 in her career.
- Senior Peyton McNamara and junior Kailyn Dudukovich are the team's leading returning scorers as each are coming off a career-high seven goals last season. McNamara scored the Buckeyes' last two goals of last season, scoring twice in the NCAA Tournament second round game at Arkansas. Dudukovich notched seven goals in each of her first two collegiate seasons.
- McNamara returned late in preseason training as she was helping the Jamaican national team reach the knockout stage of the FIFA Women's World Cup for the first time in the country's history.
- Dudukovich, McNamara and junior defender Sydney Jones were all named Big Ten Preseason Players to Watch this fall.
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