Buckeyes Close Regular Season with 10-9 Win at Temple

Sunday, April 21

Philadelphia, Pa.

12:00 PM

Ohio State

8-7

Temple University

9-5

Ohio State

Temple

Buckeyes Close Regular Season with 10-9 Win at Temple

4/21/2024 4:43:00 PM | Women's Lacrosse

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Ammerman leads Buckeyes with four assists and five points, Hargraves scores hat trick

COLUMBUS, Ohio – Zoe Coleman's goal in the final five minutes broke a nine-all tie and stood as the gamewinner as the Ohio State women's lacrosse team downed Temple, 10-9, Sunday afternoon in Philadelphia. The game closed the regular season for the Buckeyes, who are now 8-8.

Temple (9-5) scored the first two goals of the contest but two Buckeye goals in 27 seconds tied the game at two. After the Owls moved ahead at 3:59, the Buckeyes' Leah Sax, a Philadelphia native, tallied twice in the final two minutes for a 4-3 Ohio State lead at the end of the first quarter. The Buckeyes would not trail the rest of the game. The Scarlet and Gray outscored Temple 3-1 in the second quarter and led 7-4 at the half. Ohio State opened the scoring in the third quarter but the Owls tallied the last three to draw within one (8-7) after the third stanza. The Buckeyes moved the lead to two early in the fourth but back-to-back Temple scores deadlocked the game at nine with 6:41 remaining. Coleman's goal, off a pass from Brynn Ammerman, with 4:29 left put the Buckeyes back ahead and neither team found the back of the cage the rest of the way.

Ammerman led the Buckeyes with four assists and five points, with Annie Hargraves recording a hat trick. Sax had a three-point day with two goals and an assist. Jamie Lasda recorded a team-high eight draw controls and goalie Regan Alexander made nine saves, leading the Buckeyes with five ground balls and three caused turnovers.

Big Ten Tournament Up Next

Ohio State will be the No. 7 seed in the Big Ten Tournament and will take on No. 2 Penn State in a quarterfinal game at noon Saturday in University Park, Pa. B1G+ will stream the contest.
Northwestern will host the semifinals May 2 and final May 3 in Evanston, Ill. The tournament winner receives the league's automatic berth into the NCAA Tournament.

How it Happened

Temple scored the game's first two goals at 14:24 and 10:49, but the Buckeyes responded for a tie game.
Jamie Lasda opened the Buckeye scoring at 7:57 and Brynn Ammerman set up Annie Hargraves just 27 seconds later to knot the score.
The Owls scored the next goal at 3:59 for a 3-2 lead but Leah Sax tallied twice, at 1:56 on a free position chance and with just two seconds on the clock, for a 4-3 Buckeye lead after the first quarter.
Ohio State outscored Temple 3-1 in the second quarter to head into halftime ahead 7-4.
Ammerman set up Hargraves just a minute into the quarter for a 5-3 lead.
Neither team found the back of the cage until a Temple goal with 3:36 left in the quarter for a one-goal game (5-4).
Buckeye freshman Maeve Simonds scored on a rebound at 2:56 to regain the two-goal advantage. With time winding down, Regan Alexander led Kate Tyack with a long pass and Tyack scored on the break with seven seconds left in the quarter.
Ammerman tallied off an assist from Sax 50 seconds into the third quarter to push the Buckeye lead to 8-4.
Temple tallied the next three goals while shutting out the Buckeyes the rest of the quarter to draw within one, 8-7, at the end of the third quarter. The Owl goals came at 7:38, 5:02 and 1:39.
Hargraves scored from in front off a pass from Ammerman to put the Buckeyes up 9-7 at 13:04.
The Owls then tallied the next two, at 8:34 and 6:41, for a 9-9 game.
Zoe Coleman broke the tie with 4:29 left, as she converted an Ammerman pass for a 10-9 Ohio State lead.
Ohio State shut out the Owls the rest of the way to close out the victory.
The Buckeyes had the edge in shots, 26-24, with each team's goalie making nine saves.
Temple had the slight edge in ground balls, 19-18. Alexander had a team-best five ground balls and Lasda and Amani Kimball-McKavish each picked up three.
Led by Lasda, the Buckeyes were ahead in draw controls, 15-8. Lasda had a team-best eight, Simonds had three and Hargraves had two.
Alexander also led the Buckeyes with three caused turnovers, while Emily Magalotti, Kimball-McKavish and Erin O'Neil each had two.

Buckeye This and That

Lasda has 44 draw controls in the last six games combined and is first on the team with a career-best 65 this year, ranking seventh in a single season in school history. She moved into a tie for ninth place in program history with 109 career draw controls.
Lasda leads the Buckeyes with 40 goals and is second with 46 points. She moved her career-long scoring streak to 22 games, with 51 goals, 18 assists and 69 points in the stretch (and is on a nine-game goal scoring streak). In her career, Lasda has 104 goals, 49 assists and 153 points in 59 games.
Ammerman leads the Buckeyes with 28 assists and 47 points. She has multiple points in 10 games on the year and a point in all but one game. It was her first career game with four assists (one shy of her career best) and her fourth with three or more helpers.
Hargraves has at least one goal in all but three games and has 23 goals and 24 points this year, ranking third on the team in goals. It was her fifth game with three or more tallies. Her 52 draw controls this season are tied for ninth in program history.
Sax is second on the team with 28 goals and ranks third with 34 points, with at least one point in 14 of 16 outings (and in each of the last six). She has 10 multiple-goal outings this season.
Tyack is on eight-game goal and point streaks, with multiple points in the first seven games of the stretch. On the year, she has 20 goals and seven assists for 27 points.
Alexander has nine games with at least nine saves this season and has 449 stops in her 51-game Buckeye career, ranking fourth in school history. She is two back of tying for 10th in career ground balls.
Coleman is on a five-game point streak and now has 30 points on the year, ranking second with 14 assists.