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B1G Slate Opens for Buckeyes with Road Game vs. No. 6/4 Wolverines
3/5/2024 4:43:00 PM | Women's Lacrosse
The Basics
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- The Ohio State women's lacrosse team opens Big Ten play with a game at No. 6/4 Michigan Thursday. The teams will meet at 6 p.m. in Ann Arbor, Mich.
- B1G+ will stream the game and live statistics can be linked from OhioStateBuckeyes.com.Â
- Ohio State enters the game 5-1 after topping Butler 17-10 last Saturday in Columbus. Michigan is 6-0 and coming off a 13-8 win over Colorado in Ann Arbor. Â
- This is the 10th year of Big Ten lacrosse, with the inaugural season in 2015. This year, Ohio State will host No. 9 Maryland, Penn State and No. 22 Rutgers in B1G games, with road contests at No. 6 Michigan, No. 15 Johns Hopkins and No. 1 Northwestern. Â Â
- Thursday will be the 12th meeting between Ohio State and Michigan since the Wolverines joined Division I. Ohio State is 3-1 in the last four matchups, with a 14-12 loss in Columbus last year.Â
- The Buckeyes enter the game seventh nationally in scoring defense (7.67 goals allowed per game) and the Wolverines are first (4.83 gapg).
- Ohio State is in a stretch with three of four games at home, which started with the win over Butler last weekend. After the game at Michigan, the Buckeyes will host Marquette March 12 and No. 9 Maryland March 16.
- Brynn Ammerman leads the Buckeyes with 14 assists and 24 points, while Jamie Lasda has a team-best 22 goals and is second with 23 points. Leah Sax is second with 11 goals, followed by Ammerman with 10.
- Amanda Moore is in her first year as the head coach of the Buckeyes after seven seasons at East Carolina.
- Moore started her coaching career as an assistant coach at Ohio State for two years.Â
- She had assistant coaching positions at Boston University and Duke before she was selected to lead the new program at ECU.Â
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- Ohio State is third nationally in clearing percentage (.963), with 105 clears in 109 chances.Â
- The Buckeyes rank seventh nationally in scoring defense, allowing 7.67 goals a game. The squad has limited opponents to 19 first-half goals through the first six games.
- The Buckeyes began the year with four wins in a row, the first 4-0 start for the program since 2015. The squad was 3-1 through its first four games each of the last two years.
- Senior goalie Regan Alexander, who had double-digit saves in each of the last two games, is second in the NCAA in goals-against average (.6.76) and fifth in save percentage (.562). She is sixth in school history with 348 career saves, 19 behind Annie Carruthers (367) in fifth. Alexander had a career-best 16 saves at Denver.
- Jamie Lasda leads the Buckeyes with 22 goals and is second with 23 points, ranking 25th in the NCAA and third in the B1G with 3.67 goals per game. She enters the game vs. Michigan on a 12-game scoring streak, with 33 goals, 13 assists and 46 points in the stretch. In her 48-game Buckeye career, Lasda has 86 goals, 44 assists and 130 points.
- Brynn Ammerman leads the Buckeyes with 14 assists and 24 points, ranking third with 11 goals. She has at least one goal and point in each of the first six games, with multiple assists in five outings. Ammerman is 24th in the NCAA and third in the B1G with 2.33 assists per game.
- Lilli Sherman, who has started all six games on defense, leads the Buckeyes with nine caused turnovers, with multiple in three games. She is second on the team with 12 ground balls, 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
- Leah Sax has two goals in five of six games this year and at least two points in all six outings. At Denver, she notched a career-high three points, with her first two collegiate assists. The senior started the year with one goal and three games played in her first three seasons. She is second on the squad with 11 goals, ranking third with 13 points.
- Freshman Kampbell Stone has at least one goal in each of her first six collegiate games. She scored twice vs. both Kent State and Youngstown State.Â
- Rookie Audrey Schoemer started the first six games on defense and has four ground balls and four caused turnovers.Â
- Stone and Annie Hargraves lead the Buckeyes with 17 draw controls each.
- Hargraves has at least one goal in five of six games this year, held scoreless only at Denver. She has eight goals on the season.Â
- Sophie Patton has a point in each of the last four games, with a 3-1-4 line in the stretch.
- Emily Magalotti, a starter at midfield this season after playing defense in 2023, notched her first collegiate goal at Denver and then scored twice vs. Butler last week.Â
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