Thursday, March 28
Columbus, Ohio
7:00 PM
Ohio State
vs
Penn State University
Photo by: Ohio State Athletics
Buckeyes Host B1G Game vs. No. 19 Nittany Lions Thursday
3/26/2024 9:47:00 PM | Women's Lacrosse
Teams will meet under the lights on BTN
The Basics
As a team ...Â
- The Ohio State women's lacrosse team takes on No. 19 Penn State in a Big Ten game at 7 p.m. Thursday in Ohio State Lacrosse Stadium. Â
- The game will be televised by BTN and available on the Fox Sports app. Live statistics can be linked from OhioStateBuckeyes.com.Â
- Thursday is the Buckeyes' Cancer Awareness game, as they play in support of the HEADstrong Foundation and NMDP (formerly Be the Match).
- Admission and parking are free for the game and all women's lacrosse regular season contests in Ohio State Lacrosse Stadium.Â
- Ohio State enters the game 6-4 (0-3 B1G) after a loss at then-No. 10 Johns Hopkins last weekend. The Nittany Lions are 6-4 (2-0 B1G) and coming off an overtime win at home against then-No. 1 Northwestern.
- Since Big Ten play started in 2015 the Buckeyes are 4-6 against Penn State, with a 4-5 mark in the regular season.
- Last year, the Nittany Lions posted a 13-3 win over Ohio State at home March 25, 2023.Â
- The last meeting in Columbus was March 26, 2022, with Ohio State winning 12-11.Â
- The Nittany Lions (6-4, 2-0 B1G) have wins over Bucknell, Pitt, Rutgers, Lehigh, Cornell and Northwestern, with losses to Colorado, Princeton, Drexel and Loyola.Â
- Penn State is scoring 12.0 goals a game and allowing 10.50 a contest. Kristin O'Neill leads the team with 31 goals and 36 points and ranks second nationally with 1.70 free position goals per game.Â
As a team ...Â
- In their last time out, the Buckeyes fell at then-No. 10 Johns Hopkins, 15-5, last Saturday.
- The game vs. the Blue Jays was the fourth for the Buckeyes this season against an opponent that was ranked in the Top 10 at the time. The current rankings of those teams: No. 1 Maryland, No. 2 Michigan, No. 10 Johns Hopkins and No. 12 Denver.Â
- The Buckeyes' remaining B1G games are Thursday vs. No. 19 Penn State, April 13 at No. 3 Northwestern and April 18 at home vs. Rutgers.Â
- The Buckeyes rank in the Top 40 nationally in scoring offense (39th/13.1 goals per game), scoring defense (30th/10.1 goals allowed per game) and scoring margin (33rd, +3.0). The squad is 30th in shooting percentage (.463).Â
- Ohio State has outscored its opponents 41-14 in the second quarter.Â
- Senior goalie Regan Alexander, who had double-digit saves in five of the last six games, is ninth in the NCAA in save percentage (.506). She is fifth in school history with 393 career saves. Alexander had a career-best 16 saves at Denver Feb. 23, made 14 saves against Marquette and had 12 stops against Butler, Michigan and Maryland.Â
- Jamie Lasda leads the Buckeyes with 30 goals and 36 points, ranking in the Top 10 in the B1G in goals (3.0) and points (3.6) per game. She enters the game vs. Penn State on a 16-game scoring streak, with 41 goals, 18 assists and 59 points in the stretch. It is Lasda's career-long point streak, passing the two 13-game stretches she had earlier in her career.
- This season Lasda has multiple points in all but one game, including eight multi-goal outings (with two scores at Johns Hopkins). In her 52-game Buckeye career, Lasda has 94 goals, 49 assists and 143 points.
- Brynn Ammerman is first for the Buckeyes with 18 assists and ranks second with 32 points, ranking fourth with 14 goals. She has at least one point in each of the first 10 games and had a career-high four goals vs. Marquette March 12. Ammerman is fourth in the B1G with 1.8 assists per game and 11th with 3.2 points a contest. She entered the season with a 5-4-9 line in 14 games played over her first two years.
- Annie Hargraves has at least one goal and point in eight of 10 games this year. She has notched nine goals and 10 points in her last five games combined, with a personal-best four tallies vs. Marquette. Hargraves' 15 goals this season rank third on the squad. She posted her first career assist vs. Johns Hopkins for a two-point day, her fifth multiple-point outing of the season. Â
- Hargraves is first on the team with 24 draw controls, followed by Kampbell Stone and Lasda with 21 each.
- Stone, who made her first collegiate start last week against the Blue Jays, has at least one goal in eight of her first 10 collegiate games. She has 10 goals and 11 points on the year.Â
- Leah Sax is second on the squad in goals (17), with two or more in seven of 10 games, and has been held scoreless just twice. She also has six assists, with three multi-assist days. The senior started the year with one goal and three games played in her first three seasons.Â
- Rookie Audrey Schoemer started the first 10 games on defense and has nine ground balls and five caused turnovers, picking up two loose balls vs. both Kent State and Johns Hopkins.
- Freshman Ella Wright made her first start on defense last Saturday at JHU. Â
- Erin O'Neill, who has started all 10 games on defense, had a career-high three ground balls and three caused turnovers vs. Maryland March 16.Â
- Lilli Sherman, who has started the nine games she played this season (missing last Saturday vs. Johns Hopkins), leads the Buckeyes with 11 caused turnovers, with multiple in three games. She is second on the team with 18 ground balls (behind Alexander with 24), picking up a career-best five at Akron. Sherman entered the season with five games played and two ground balls in her first two years.Â
- Emily Magalotti, who moved to midfield this season after playing defense in 2023, notched her first collegiate goal at Denver and then scored twice vs. Butler the following game. She extended her scoring streak to four with goals against Michigan and Marquette and has five on the year.
- Zoe Coleman has at least one point in nine of 10 games this year and has 11 goals, 11 assists and 22 points. She has six multiple-point outings this season.Â
- Freshman Kate Tyack made her first two collegiate starts in the last two outings, scoring a goal in each contest. She has eight goals and nine points while playing in all 10 games this year.
- Ohio State will play its next three games on the road, traveling to Cincinnati April 5, Louisville April 9 and Northwestern April 13.Â
- The regular season finale is April 18 vs. Rutgers, with the Buckeye seniors recognized that night.
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