Saturday, April 27
University Park, PA
12:00 PM
Ohio State
at
Penn State (Quarterfinals)
Photo by: Ohio State Athletics
Buckeyes Set for B1G Tournament Game at No. 16 Penn State
4/26/2024 3:00:00 PM | Women's Lacrosse
The teams will meet at noon in University Park
The Basics
As a team ...Â
- The Ohio State women's lacrosse team heads to University Park, Pa., for a Big Ten Tournament quarterfinal game vs. No. 16-ranked Penn State at noon Saturday.
- The game will be streamed on B1G+ and live statistics can be linked from OhioStateBuckeyes.com.
- Ohio State, the No. 7 seed, enters the game 8-8 (1-5 B1G) and is coming off a win at Temple Sunday. No. 2 seed Penn State is 9-6 on the year (4-2 B1G) and posted a win over Johns Hopkins in its last time out.
- The winner will advance to the semifinals May 2 and the championship game is May 4. Northwestern is hosting the final two rounds in Evanston, Ill.
- Since Big Ten play started in 2015 the Buckeyes are 5-6 against Penn State, with wins in four of the last five matchups.
- This season, the teams met in Columbus March 28, with Ohio State tallying the game's final seven goals to come from behind for a 9-8 win.
- The last game in University Park was March 25, 2023, a 13-3 PSU victory.
- This will be the second meeting between the teams in the Big Ten Tournament. The squads faced off in the championship game in 2015, with the Nittany Lions winning a back-and-forth contest, 13-11, in Piscataway, N.J.Â
- The teams met in the ALC Tournament three times (2007, 2009, 2010), with the Nittany Lions winning all three games. Â
As a team ...Â
- In their last time out, the Buckeyes posted a 10-9 win at Temple Sunday. Temple scored the first two goals of the contest, answered by the Buckeyes for a tie game. 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. A three-goal run from the Owls made it a one-goal game (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. A Zoe Coleman goal with 4:29 left put the Buckeyes back ahead and neither team found the back of the cage the rest of the way.
- 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. 5 Michigan, No. 7 Maryland, No. 12 Denver and No. 15 Johns Hopkins. Ohio State also has a win over current No. 16 Penn State. The Nittany Lions were ranked 19th when the teams faced off. Â
- The Buckeyes are scoring 12.0 goals a game while allowing 11.56 a contest. The squad is averaging 27.13 shots a game and has a .442 shooting percentage. Â
- Senior goalie Regan Alexander, who has nine games with nine or more saves this season, is 20th in the NCAA in saves (146), 22nd in saves per game (9.13) and 24th in save percentage (.466).
- Alexander has 449 saves in her 51-game Buckeye career (with 48 starts), ranking fourth in school history.
- Alexander leads the Buckeyes with 43 ground balls this year and now has 121 in her Buckeye career (two back of tying for 10th all-time). Alexander also has a team-best 19 caused turnovers.Â
- Senior Jamie Lasda hits the 100-goal and 150-point career marks at Northwestern April 13. Her goal at Temple moved her career totals to 104 goals and 153 points. Lasda's 49 career assists are one shy of tying for 10th in school history.Â
- Lasda leads the Buckeyes with a career-best 40 goals and is second with 46 points, her third straight 40-plus point season. She ranks 10th in the Big Ten in goals per game (2.5). This season Lasda has multiple points in all but four games, including 11 multi-goal outings.Â
- Lasda enters the game at Penn State on a 22-game scoring streak, with 51 goals, 18 assists and 69 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 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.
- Junior Brynn Ammerman is first for the Buckeyes with 28 assists and 47 points after a four-assist, five-point game at Temple. Ammerman, who has a point in all but one game this year, is fourth in the B1G with 1.75 assists per game and has eight 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 (28) and ranks third with 34 points, with at least one point in 14 of 16 outings (including in each of the last six). She has 11 multiple-goal outings this season and scored twice at Temple. The senior started the year with one goal and three games played in her first three seasons.Â
- Freshman Kate Tyack  enters the game at Penn State on eight-game goal and point streaks, with multiple points in the first seven games of the stretch. She has 20 goals, seven assists and 27 points overall this season.Â
- Sophomore Zoe Coleman has at least one point in 14 of 16 games this year and has a career-high 16 goals, 14 assists and 30 points. She is on a five-game point streak and scored the gamewinner at Temple last week, her second gamewinning goal of the season.Â
- Junior Annie Hargraves has at least one goal and point in 13 of 16 games this year. Hargraves, who had 13 goals in 2023 in her first season of game action, has 23 goals and 24 points this season, with a hat trick at Temple (her fifth game with three or more tallies). Her 52 draw controls this season are tied for ninth in program history.
- Senior Erin O'Neil, who has started all 16 games on defense, has 17 ground balls and 11 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 14 games she has played this year on defense, with eight ground balls and seven caused turnovers. Johnson played in all 33 games the last two years, with 22 starts.
- Rookie Audrey Schoemer started the first 16 games on defense and has 11 ground balls and seven caused turnovers.Â
- Junior Amani Kimball-McKavish has started the last three games at midfield. She had a career-high three ground balls and two caused turnovers at Temple.Â
- Freshman Maeve Simonds has a goal in two of the last four games and three on the year will playing in eight games. She recorded a career-best three draw controls at Temple.
- Emily Magalotti, who moved to midfield this season after playing defense in 2023, and has started 15 of 16 games, 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, along with 11 ground balls, 29 draw controls and eight caused turnovers.
- Freshman Kampbell Stone has 14 goals and 15 points this season, along with 24 draw controls. She marked her first career hat trick at Louisville April 9 and also has two two-goal outings.
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