Saturday, March 15
San Diego, Calif.
3:00 p.m. ET
Ohio State
at
San Diego State
Photo by: Cam Woods
No. 20 Buckeyes Wrap Up West Coast Trip at SDSU
3/15/2025 8:24:00 AM | Women's Lacrosse
The Basics
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- The No. 20 Ohio State women's lacrosse team closes out its west coast trip with a game at San Diego State at 3 p.m. ET Saturday.
- The contest between the Buckeyes and Aztecs will be streamed through YouTube and live stats will be available.Â
- The Buckeyes are 8-0 on the year, coming off a 20-6 win at Oregon Wednesday night in the Big Ten opener. San Diego State is 5-3 and posted a 17-16 win over East Carolina Monday at home.
- Ohio State is 4-0 all-time against San Diego State. The last meeting was a 10-4 Buckeye road victory in 2023. The squads faced off in Columbus in 2019, a 16-10 Ohio State victory, and in 2013 when Ohio State won 19-11. The first meeting was in 2012 in Palo Alto, Calif., with the Buckeyes prevailing 19-4.
- San Diego State, an affiliate member of the Big 12 Conference for women's lacrosse, is 5-3 on the year. The Aztecs are second in the NCAA in ground balls per game (22.63), third in shots (37.25) per game and rank sixth in scoring offense with 16.38 goals per game while ranking first nationally in shots on goal per game (29.88). They allow 14.13 goals per outing.
- The Buckeyes opened Big Ten play with a 20-6 victory over Oregon Wednesday.
- Ohio State scored four of the game's first five goals and led 6-3 after the first quarter. Kate Tyack and Kampbell Stone both notched a hat trick in the opening stanza and Brynn Ammerman had three assists.
- The Buckeyes scored six goals in a row, including two from Annie Hargraves, to open the second quarter, shutting out the Ducks until just four seconds remained before halftime.Â
- The defensive pressure kept up in the third, with Ohio State not allowing a goal while scoring three times, highlighted by two goals from Ammerman. The Buckeye run continued to start the final quarter, pushing the lead to 18-4 with 9:20 remaining. The Ducks and Buckeyes each scored twice in the final 8:01 to close out the game.
- Tyack led the Buckeyes with a career-high five goals and added an assist for six points. Brynn Ammerman had seven points, with two goals and five assists. Kampbell Stone had four goals in the win and Annie Hargraves notched a hat trick. Katie Kaucheck had four ground balls and three caused turnovers and Lilli Sherman forced four turnovers. Goalie Jocelyn Torres made four saves and had four ground balls. Abby Boyle was first with five draw controls, followed by Emily Magalotti with four.
- Junior goalie Jocelyn Torres was named to the Tewaaraton Watch List last week after an outstanding start to the season.Â
- She has 51 saves, with just 41 goals allowed, through her first seven games as a Buckeye.Â
- Torres ranks second nationally in save percentage (.554) and is fourth in goals-against average (6.04).
- Ohio State's 7-0 start is the best in program history. It passed the 2002 team, which won the first six games that season. The most recent win streak to open the year was in 2012 when the Buckeyes won five in a row.Â
- The Buckeyes' seven-game winning streak is the longest for the program since the 2016 team won a program-record nine in a row.
- In the national rankings this week, Ohio State is No. 20 in the IWLCA coaches poll, No. 19 in the IL Women media poll and No. 18 in the USA Lacrosse rankings.Â
- The Buckeyes are third nationally in scoring defense, allowing 6.14 goals per game. Katie Kaucheck, Ella Wright, Lilli Sherman and Audrey Schoemer have all started the first seven games on defense.
- Kaucheck has eight caused turnovers in the last two games combined, including a career-best five caused turnovers vs. Cincinnati last week. She is second on the team with 11 this year. Sherman is first with 14 caused turnovers.
- Schoemer is second on the team with 13 ground balls, behind goalie Jocelyn Torres with 14. Torres had a team-high tying four in the win at Oregon.
- Brynn Ammerman leads the Buckeyes with 25 assists and 34 points. She is on a 10-game point streak (12g, 29a, 41p). She has two or more assists in each game this year and is eighth in the NCAA in assists, ranking sixth nationally and first in the B1G in assists per game (3.57).Â
- Ammerman's seven-assist game vs. Akron is tied for the sixth-most in a single game this season in the NCAA and tied for fourth in program history. She also had a hat trick vs. the Zips for a 10-point day, tied for the third-most in the NCAA this year and tying for fourth in school history.
- Kate Tyack had a career-high five goals and six points in the win at Oregon. She had four goals vs. Louisville, Vanderbilt and Cincinnati and two tallies against Akron and Robert Morris. Her fourth goal of the game vs. Cincinnati was the overtime winner. She has 13 games with two or more goals through her first 24 collegiate games and has 55 points, with 46 goals and nine assists, as a Buckeye. Tyack has a team-high 21 goals this season.
- Stone notched a career-high four goals against the Ducks. She has at least one goal in each game on the year and 15 total to rank second on the team. She notched her third career hat trick against the Bearcats last week and has seven multiple goal outings as a Buckeye, with 29 goals and 30 points in 24 games.Â
- Makena Harrington posted her first career two-goal outing at Oregon and it was her second multiple-point day as a Buckeye.
- Maeve Simonds is on a three-game goal-scoring streak.
- Zoe Coleman has at least one goal in 11 of the last 12 games. She has notched 41 goals in her 41-game career, adding 19 assists for 60 points. She is third on the squad with 12 goals this year.
- Annie Hargraves marked her fifth career hat tricks and seventh games with three or more goals Wednesday vs. Oregon. She has seven games with at least three points as a Buckeye.
- Leah Sax has at least one point in six of seven games this season and is third with 16 points, on nine goals and seven assists. After just three appearances and one goal through her first three years at Ohio State, Sax has 38 goals, 14 assists and 52 points in the 24 games since the start of 2024.
- Freshman Abby Boyle had a career-high six draw controls in the win over Cincinnati and recorded five vs. Oregon. She leads the team with 20, followed by Emily Magalotti with 19.
- Maeve Simonds has goals in back to back games for the Buckeyes and Annie Hargraves has at least one goal in four of six outings.
- The Buckeyes rank third nationally in clearing percentage (.949) and are ninth in caused turnovers per game (11.29).
- The Buckeyes will return home to host No. 21 USC at noon March 23, followed by a game vs. No. 11 Michigan at 6 p.m. March 27.
- Admission and parking are free for all regular season home games in Ohio State Lacrosse Stadium.
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