Buckeye Spotlight - Sept. 26
9/26/2023 2:44:00 PM | General
COLUMBUS, Ohio – Week in and week out, Buckeye student-athletes raise the standard of excellence set at Ohio State, whether that be in competition, in the classroom or in the community. 'Buckeye Spotlight' recognizes student-athletes who had noteworthy accomplishments both in contests and beyond the box score.
Michael Adedokun | Men's Soccer | Jr. | Eruwa, Nigeria
Michael Adedokun | Men's Soccer | Jr. | Eruwa, Nigeria
- Michael Adedokun scored his first goal as a Buckeye in a 3-0 home win over Kentucky last Tuesday.
- He then added another, a first in Big Ten Conference play, at Northwestern on Sunday to help the Buckeyes to a split last week.
- Adedokun led Ohio State with six shots, with three directed on net.
- The goal against Kentucky turned out to be the match winner. He also scored the match's first goal at Northwestern in a 4-2 loss.
- Christin Baumbick scored the game-winning goal in the final minute of the Buckeyes' 1-0 win at Maryland on Sunday.
- The goal was her second of the season, which marks a career high, and she now has four career goals.
- This was also the first game-winning goal of her career.
- Her goal gave the Buckeyes their fifth win on the year, and it gave head coach Lori Walker-Hock the 300th win of her career.
- Freshman middle blocker Eloise Brandewie stepped up her defense at the net the past weekend to lead the Buckeyes in blocking with eight blocks in six sets (1.33 blocks/set). She also hit .348 on the weekend with 11 total kills. This season, Brandewie leads the team's blocking with 29 total (0.71 blocks/set) and is averaging 1.32 kills/set.
- At No. 2 Nebraska in the Big Ten opener, Brandewie tied her then career-high three blocks (for the sixth time in 10 matches) and added a pair of kills.
- At Iowa on Sunday, Brandewie again led the Buckeye block with a career-high five blocks and had nine kills on 15 swings with only one error to hit a team-best .533. Nine kills was one shy of her career-high.
- At the Fall Ranked Spotlight in Cary, N.C., Irina Cantos Siemers reached both the singles and doubles final.
- Among her singles wins over the weekend was the 100th of her collegiate career. She is the fifth Buckeyes with triple-digit singles wins and is currently 102-38 in the Scarlet and Gray.
- In doubles last weekend, Cantos Siemers and Sydni Ratliff, the nation's No. 14-ranked doubles team, was 2-0 in the A group Thursday to reach the A-B final. They fell to the No. 19-ranked team from Texas A&M in the final.
- Cantos Siemers, who was the No. 6 seed in the A-1 draw and is ranked 16th nationally, won her first four matches, all in straight sets against Top 75 opponents, to advance to the final before falling to the No. 5 seed.
- Robert Cash teamed with former teammate James Trotter to win the doubles title at the ATP Columbus Challenger inside the Ty Tucker Tennis Center last week.
- This was Cash's first professional doubles title.
- The Buckeye duo had a tremendous comeback win in the semifinals and then took down the top-seeded team in the finals, winning in a third set super-breaker.
- Kyle McCord drove the Buckeyes 65 yards in 15 plays in 1 minute and 25 seconds for the winning touchdown with a second to play against Notre Dame on Saturday.
- McCord kept the winning drive alive three times by completing clutch passes: on 3rd-and-10 (23 yards to Emeka Egbuka), 4th-and-7 (7 yards to Julian Fleming) and 3rd-and-19 (21 yards to Egbuka).
- For the game, McCord was 11-of-15 passing for 162 yards on third and fourth down plays.
- He is a two-time OSU Scholar-Athlete and an Academic All-Big Ten honoree who is majoring in communications.
- Makenna Webster had a team-high seven points in two games last weekend for the 11th-ranked field hockey team.
- She scored twice in a 4-3 loss to No. 3 Northwestern on Friday and then had a goal and an assist in a 3-2 victory over Ohio on Sunday.
- Webster leads the team in goals (13), assists (six) and points (32). She enters the week ranked fourth nationally in points per game (2.91) and seventh in goals per game (1.18).
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