Wednesday, February 26
Columbus, Ohio
3 p.m.
Ohio State
vs
Akron
Photo by: Ohio State Athletics
No. 20 Buckeyes Host Akron Wednesday
2/25/2025 3:24:00 PM | Women's Lacrosse
Ohio State is 3-0 on the year
The Basics
The Buckeye will play at Robert Morris at 11 a.m. March 1 before hosting Cincinnati at 3
- The Ohio State women's lacrosse team returns home to host in-state foe Akron at 3 p.m. Wednesday in Ohio State Lacrosse Stadium.
- Admission and parking are free.
- The first 100 fans will receive a fleece headband. Ohio State students will receive free Donatos pizza with a BuckID.
- The game will be streamed on B1G+ and live statistics will be HERE.
- The Buckeyes enter the game 3-0 on the year, with the Zips 3-1.Â
- Ohio State and Akron met on the lacrosse field for the first time last season, with the Buckeyes posting an 18-3 road win. A nine-goal run gave Ohio State an 11-2 lead at halftime and they outscored the Zips 7-1 in the second half for the victory.
- Akron is 3-1 this season, with an overtime loss to Duquesne and wins against Saint Francis, Xavier and Presbyterian.
- Sienna Hinchcliffe leads the Zips with 17 goals and 22 points. The squad is scoring 13.25 goals a game and ranks ninth nationally in team defense, limiting opponents to 6.50 goals per game.
- Ohio State posted a 14-8 road win at Vanderbilt last Saturday.
- The Buckeyes scored the game's first four goals, with three in the first 4:30 of the contest. Vandy tallied twice to close out the first quarter with Ohio State ahead 4-2. Kate Tyack scored three times to start the second for a 7-2 Buckeye lead and Ohio State carried an 8-4 advantage into halftime.
- The Buckeyes scored twice to start the third quarter, with Vanderbilt notching the next two, for a 10-6 Ohio State lead through 45 minutes. The Buckeyes' Kampbell Stone tallied 31 seconds into the fourth quarter, answered by Vandy with two goals to cut the lead to three for the first time since early in the second quarter. Ohio State then shut out the Commodores for the final 11:56, scoring three times, for the 14-8 victory.
- Tyack had four goals and an assist for five points, while Leah Sax had a hat trick, adding two assists for five points, and Brynn Ammerman had a five-point day with two goals and three assists. Kampbell Stone notched a hat trick for the Scarlet and Gray and Zoe Coleman tallied twice. Jocelyn Torres made a career-high tying 14 saves in the Buckeye cage.
- In the national polls this week, Ohio State is No. 20 in the IWLCA coaches poll and the IL Women media poll and No. No. 19 in the USA Lacrosse rankings.
- The Buckeyes are seventh nationally in scoring defense, allowing 6.33 goals per game. Katie Kaucheck, Ella Wright, Lilli Herman and Audrey Schoemer have all started the first three games on defense.
- Goalie Jocelyn Torres has 32 saves, with just 19 goals allowed, through her first three games as a Buckeye. She ranks third nationally in save percentage (.627) and is eighth in goals-against average (6.33), ranking 14th in saves per game (10.67).
- Zoe Coleman has a point in each of her last nine games (14g, 17p) and a goal in five straight, with 10 goals in the stretch. She had a career-high four goals in the season opener and scored once at Louisville, with two goals at Vanderbilt. Coleman has notched 36 goals in her 37-game career, adding 19 assists for 55 points.
- Brynn Ammerman is on a six-game point streak (5g, 12a, 17p) after a five-point game, with two goals and three assists, against the Commodores. She has two or more assists in each game this year and leads the squad with seven. Ammerman has five games with five or more points as a Buckeye and 12 multiple-assist outings. Last season, she led the Buckeyes with 28 assists.
- Leah Sax had a hat trick at Vanderbilt, adding a career-high tying two assists for five points, her fourth career game with four or more points. She was 3-for-4 on free position chances in the win. Sax has 11 multi-goal outings as a Buckeye.
- After scoring once in the first two games of the year, Kampbell Stone notched a hat trick vs. the Commodores. She also had two ground balls and three draw controls in the win. It was her second career hat trick and three-point game.
- Emily Magalotti leads the Buckeyes with 10 draw controls this season, followed by Stone with six. Sherman and Stone share the team lead with four caused turnovers each. Stone also paces the team with seven ground balls and Schoemer has picked up six.
- Kate Tyack notched a second-straight four-goal game, adding an assist, for five points last week. She leads the Buckeyes with eight goals this year and is tied with Ammerman for the team point lead with nine each. Tyack has nine games with two or more goals through her first 20 collegiate games and has 40 points, with 32 goals and eight assists, as a Buckeye.
The Buckeye will play at Robert Morris at 11 a.m. March 1 before hosting Cincinnati at 3
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