Sunday, April 21
Philadelphia, Pa.
12:00 PM
Ohio State
at
Temple University
Photo by: Ohio State Athletics
Buckeyes Wrap Regular Season Sunday at Temple
4/19/2024 1:18:00 PM | Women's Lacrosse
Teams will meet in Philadelphia
The Basics
Buckeyes vs. Owls
As a team ...Â
Ohio State will travel for a Big Ten Tournament quarterfinal game April 27.Â
Northwestern will host the semifinals and final May 2 and 4, respectively, in Evanston, Ill.Â
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- The Ohio State women's lacrosse will close its regular season schedule Sunday at Temple.Â
- The Buckeyes and Owls will meet at noon at Howarth Field in Philadelphia.Â
- The game will be streamed on ESPN+ and live statistics can be linked from OhioStateBuckeyes.com.
- Ohio State enters the game 7-8 (1-5 B1G) after a loss to Rutgers Thursday night in Columbus. Temple is 9-4 (4-1 AAC) and posted a win over Cincinnati last Saturday in its last game.
Buckeyes vs. Owls
- The Buckeyes and Temple met in Columbus last year, with Ohio State recording a 10-9 win Feb. 12, 2023.
- Temple won the first two games in the series, with a 23-2 victory in 1997 in Columbus and a 15-7 win in 2001 in Philadelphia.
- The Owls are 9-4 on the year, with an 8-2 home ledger.Â
- Temple is averaging 10.77 goals a game and allowing 8.77 a contest, ranking 11th in the NCAA in scoring defense. The squad is third nationally in caused turnovers per game (12.38) and fifth in ground balls per game (22.38).
- Belle Mastropietro leads Temple with 35 goals, 20 assists and 55 points and MacKenzie Roth is second in assists (19) and points (35). Ameilia Wright (23) and Julie Schickling (20) both have hit the 20-goal mark. Katie Shallow ranks third in the NCAA with 3.54 caused turnovers per game and is fourth with 3.77 ground balls per outing. Goalie Taylor Grollman is ninth in the NCAA in save percentage (.486).Â
- All 39 Buckeyes on this year's roster were recognized as Ohio State Scholar-Athletes this week at the annual Ohio State Scholar-Athlete Dinner.
- To earn Scholar-Athlete accolades, a student-athlete must have a cumulative grade-point average of 3.0 or better.
- Senior goalie Regan Alexander was one of five women's finalists for the Big Ten Medal of Honor, presented each year to the top male and female senior student-athletes on each B1G campus.
- Kiana Perez was a recipient of the Woody and Anne Hayes Award, which provides financial assistance for postgraduate studies to student-athletes who have demonstrated academic achievement and leadership qualities. Â
As a team ...Â
- In their last time out, the Buckeyes fell at home to Rutgers, 13-11, Thursday evening in Columbus. The teams were tied at one after the first quarter. A three-goal run by the Buckeyes to open the second quarter helped Ohio State to a 7-4 halftime lead. In the third, Rutgers tallied three of the first four goals to draw within one (8-7) at 9:18. Ohio State notched the next two scores for a three-goal lead at 13:00 of the fourth quarter, but Rutgers went on a run of its own, tying the game with 11:18 remaining and moving ahead at 6:30 en route to the 13-11 final.
- The Buckeyes have faced five opponents who were ranked in the Top 10 at the time of the game so far this year. The current ILWomen/IWLCA rankings of those teams: No. 1 Northwestern, No. 4 Michigan, No. 8 Maryland, No. 11 Johns Hopkins and No. 12 Denver. Ohio State also has a win over current No. 19 Penn State. Â
- The Buckeyes are scoring 12.13 goals a game while allowing 11.73 a contest. The squad is averaging 27.2 shots a game and has a .446 shooting percentage. Â
- Individually ...Â
- Senior goalie Regan Alexander, who has double-digit saves in eight of the last 11 games, is 13th in the NCAA in saves (137), 22nd in saves per game (9.13) and 23rd in save percentage (.464).
- Alexander has 440 saves in her 50-game Buckeye career (with 47 starts), ranking fifth in school history (eight saves back of fourth).
- Senior Jamie Lasda scored twice at Northwestern last Saturday, hitting the 100 goal mark and recording the 150th point of her Buckeye career. She had two goals against Rutgers, moving her career totals to 103 goals and 152 points. Her 49 career assists are one shy of tying for 10th in school history.Â
- Lasda leads the Buckeyes with a career-best 39 goals and has a team-best 45 points, her third straight 40-plus point season. She ranks ninth in the Big Ten in goals per game (2.6). This season Lasda has multiple points in all but three games, including 11 multi-goal outings.Â
- Lasda enters the game at Temple on a 21-game scoring streak, with 50 goals, 18 assists and 68 points in the stretch. It is Lasda's career-long point streak, passing the two 13-game stretches she had earlier in her career.
- Lasda has 36 draw controls in the last five games combined and is first on the team with a career-best 57 (ranking seventh most in a single season in Ohio State history). She has 101 career draw controls, tying for 10th in school history. Â
- Freshman Kate Tyack Tyack has multiple points in each of her last five games, with 11 goals and 17 points in the five games combined. She enters the game at Temple on seven-game goal and point streaks and has 19 goals, seven assists and 26 points overall this season.Â
- Junior Brynn Ammerman is first for the Buckeyes with 24 assists and ranks second with 42 points, with a point in all but one game (at Louisville). Ammerman is fourth in the B1G with 1.6 assists per game and has seven games with two or more assists this year. She entered the season with a 5-4-9 line in 14 games played over her first two years.
- Senior Leah Sax is second on the squad in goals (26) and matched her season and career best, first set vs. Marquette March 12, with four goals vs. Rutgers Thursday. She has multiple goals in eight of 15 games and has been held off the scoresheet just twice this season. The senior started the year with one goal and three games played in her first three seasons.Â
- Sophomore Zoe Coleman has at least one point in 13 of 15 games this year and has a career-high 15 goals, 14 assists and 29 points. She has nine multiple-point outings this season, including a personal-best three goals and five points vs. Marquette.Â
- Junior Annie Hargraves has at least one goal and point in 12 of 15 games this year. Hargraves, who had 13 goals in 2023 in her first season of game action, has 20 goals this season and is second on the team with a career-best 50 draw controls (tying for the 12th-most in a single season in program history). She has 26 draw controls in the last five games combined and six games with five or more overall, including a career-high seven vs. Rutgers this week. Â
- Emily Magalotti, who moved to midfield this season after playing defense in 2023, notched her first collegiate goal at Denver Feb. 23 and then scored twice vs. Butler the following game. She now has nine tallies on the year.
- Senior Erin O'Neil, who has started all 15 games on defense, has 15 ground balls and nine caused turnovers on the year. She had six loose balls and five caused turnovers while playing 22 games (with four starts) her first three seasons combined. Her classmate Sarah Johnson has started all 13 games she has played this year on defense, with seven ground balls and six caused turnovers. She played in all 33 games the last two years, with 22 starts.
- Rookie Audrey Schoemer started the first 15 games on defense and has 10 ground balls and seven caused turnovers.Â
- Alexander leads the Buckeyes with 38 ground balls this year and now has 116 in her Buckeye career (seven back of 10th all-time). Alexander also has a team-best 16 caused turnovers.Â
- Freshman Kampbell Stone had her first career hat trick against Louisville last week, marking her third career multiple-goal outing. The three points marked a season high and she now has 14 goals and 15 points this season.Â
Ohio State will travel for a Big Ten Tournament quarterfinal game April 27.Â
Northwestern will host the semifinals and final May 2 and 4, respectively, in Evanston, Ill.Â
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