Tuesday, April 9
Louisville, Ky.
1:00 PM
Ohio State
at
University of Louisville
Photo by: Ohio State Athletics
Buckeyes Set for Tuesday Game at Louisville
4/8/2024 5:07:00 PM | Women's Lacrosse
Teams will meet Tuesday afternoon
The Basics
As a team ...Â
- The Ohio State women's lacrosse team heads to Louisville, Ky., for a nonconference game Tuesday afternoon.Â
- The Buckeyes and Louisville will meet at 1 p.m. in UofL Lacrosse Stadium. The game will be streamed on ACCNX and live statistics can be linked from OhioStateBuckeyes.com.Â
- Ohio State enters the game 7-5 (1-3 B1G) after a loss at Cincinnati last Friday. Louisville is 6-8 (2-5 ACC) on the year and coming off a loss at home to Virginia Saturday. Â
- The Buckeyes are 7-3 all-time against Louisville, with a 3-2 record on the road in the series. The teams met each season from 2009-14, with the last game in that stretch an NCAA Tournament contest. The teams also played in 2019 and this is now the third year in a row the teams are facing off.
- Last season, the squads met in Columbus March 28, 2023, a 16-6 Buckeye victory. The Buckeyes scored the game's first five goals and led 7-4 at halftime en route to the victory. Among current Buckeyes, Jamie Lasda had two goals and five assists in the victory, while Casey Roberts and Annie Hargraves each had a hat trick, with Roberts also posting two assists for a five-point game.Â
- The teams last met in Louisville March 13, 2022, when the Buckeyes prevailed in overtime, 13-12. The Cardinals rallied with four goals in the fourth quarter to force the extra session. On the gamewinner, Nicole Ferrara found Lindsay Epstein in front of the cage and she scored with less than a second remaining to give the Buckeyes the win.
As a team ...Â
- The game at Louisville is the middle contest of three straight road games, with a contest at Cincinnati last Friday and a game at Northwestern this Saturday.Â
- In their last time out, the Buckeyes fell at Cincinnati, 13-11, on the road Friday. Ohio State led 4-2 in the fourth quarter but a UC five-goal run gave the Bearcats the lead and they held the advantage the rest of the way. Ohio State drew within one twice, but was unable to get the equalizer.
- The Buckeyes have faced four 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. 4 Maryland, No. 6 Michigan, No. 8 Johns Hopkins and No. 13 Denver. Ohio State will play at No. 1 Northwestern Saturday. Â
- The Buckeyes are scoring 12.58 goals a game while allowing 10.17 a contest. The squad is averaging 27.3 shots on goal a game and has a .460 shooting percentage which is second in the B1G. Â
- Senior goalie Regan Alexander, who has double-digit saves in six of the last eight games, is ninth in the NCAA in save percentage (.498), 21st in goals-against average (9.83) and 23rd in saves per game (9.0).
- Alexander has 411 saves in her 47-game Buckeye career, ranking fifth in school history.Â
- Freshman Kate Tyack has hat tricks in back-to-back games and enters the game at Louisville on a four-game goal streak. This season she has 14 goals and 16 points.Â
- Jamie Lasda leads the Buckeyes with 34 goals and 40 points, ranking in the Top 10 in the B1G in goals (2.83) and points (3.33) per game. It is her third straight season with at least 40 points. Lasda enters the game at Louisville on an 18-game scoring streak, with 45 goals, 18 assists and 63 points in the stretch, after a hat trick at Cincinnati. 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 two games, including nine multi-goal outings. In her 54-game Buckeye career, Lasda has 98 goals, 49 assists and 147 points.
- Junior Brynn Ammerman is first for the Buckeyes with 20 assists and ranks second with 37 points, tying for third with 17 goals. She has at least one point in each of the first 12 games, including four points, with two goals and two assists, in the last time out at UC. Ammerman is fifth in the B1G with 1.67 assists per game. 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 10 of 12 games this year. Hargraves, who had 13 goals in her first season playing last year, has 17 goals this year to tie for third on the squad.Â
- Lasda leads the squad with 34 draw controls, with 13 in the last two games combined, and had 35 last year. Hargraves is second on the squad with 32 in 2024. Â
- Leah Sax is second on the squad in goals (19), with two or more in seven of 12 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
- Kampbell Stone has at least one goal in nine of her first 12 collegiate games and has 11 goals and 12 points on the year. She is third on the team with 22 draw controls.
- Erin O'Neil, who has started all 12 games on defense, has 14 ground balls and eight caused turnovers on the year. Last week at UC, O'Neil had a career-best four ground balls and also caused two turnovers. She had six loose balls and five caused turnovers while playing 22 games (with four starts) her first two seasons.Â
- Rookie Audrey Schoemer started the first 12 games on defense and has 10 ground balls and seven caused turnovers.
- Alexander leads the Buckeyes with 28 ground balls this year (and has 106 in her Buckeye career). Lilli Sherman, who started the first nine games before missing time with an injury, is second with 18. 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 now has seven goals on the year.
- Zoe Coleman has at least one point in 10 of 12 games this year and has 11 goals, 13 assists and 22 points. She has six multiple-point outings this season, with two assists at UC.
- Ohio State will return to Big Ten play with a 1 p.m. ET game at Northwestern Saturday.Â
- The regular season home finale is at 6 p.m. April 18 vs. Rutgers on Senior Night. Admission and parking are free.
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