Buckeyes Fall in Season Opener to Pitt, 13-10

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Buckeyes Fall in Season Opener to Pitt, 13-10

2/7/2026 6:13:00 PM | Women's Lacrosse

Box Score

Callaghan leads Ohio State with four goals and six points

COLUMBUS, Ohio – In the season opener for both teams, the Ohio State women's lacrosse team fell to Pitt, 13-10, Saturday inside the Woody Hayes Athletic Center.

The teams were scoreless in the first quarter and each team tallied five goals in the second. Pitt outscored the Buckeyes 8-5 in the second half, including 3-1 in the fourth quarter, for the win. In a back-and-forth contest, the game was tied seven times.

In her first game as a Buckeye, senior transfer Camryn Callaghan had a team-best four goals and six points. Junior Kate Tyack had four points with two goals and two assists and senior Brooke Vinson had a two-point day with a goal and an assist. Goalie Jocelyn Torres made six saves in the Buckeye cage.

How it Happened

The first quarter was scoreless, with the Panthers ahead in shots, 7-4.
After Pitt opened the scoring at 14:17 of the second, Ohio State notched the next two, with Kate Tyack and Camryn Callaghan connecting on both. Tyack found Callaghan for a score at 12:44 and the roles were reversed at 11:19 for a 2-1 Ohio State lead.
The Panthers tied the game at 10:56. Callaghan led Kampbell Stone for a goal from up high at 9:08 to push the Buckeyes ahead, followed by a Kate Tyack unassisted tally at 7:35 for a 4-2 Buckeye lead.
The Panthers scored three of the final four goals in the quarter for a five-all game at the half.
Pitt drew within one at 4:43 before Buckeye Audrey Rudolph came around the cage and scored, assisted by Tyack, at 3:28, for a 5-3 Ohio State advantage.
Goals for Pitt at 2:09 and with 25 seconds remaining closed out the scoring in the half. Shots were 9-7 in favor of the visitors in the second.
In the third, Pitt outscored the Buckeyes, 5-4, and each team had 10 shots.
Brooke Vinson put the Buckeyes ahead just 43 seconds into the quarter (6-5). The teams then traded goals, with Pitt scoring at 13:41 and Vinson finding Callaghan for a player-up goal at 12:03, for a 7-6 Buckeye lead.
The game was again tied with a Pitt goal at 9:40 and Riley Ebersole gave the Panthers the lead for the first time at 8:57.
Callaghan converted a free position shot for the Buckeyes at 7:36 to deadlock the score at eight-all.
With two of the three final goals, Pitt took a 10-9 lead into the quarter break.
The Panthers moved ahead at 6:50, answered by Buckeye Lindsay Moneymaker with her first career goal at 4:59. A player-up goal from Pitt with 38 seconds remaining broke the tie for a 10-9 Panther lead.
In the fourth, the Panthers stretched the lead to 13-9 with three goals in the first 5:29, scoring at 14:17, 13:44 and 9:31 (free position).
Zoe Coleman found Callaghan in front with the Buckeyes player-up at 4:45 to draw Ohio State within three, but that was the final goal of the game.
Pitt had seven shots in the fourth, Ohio State six.
For the game, Ohio State was outshot, 33-27. Buckeye goalie Jocelyn Torres had six saves and the Pitt goalie made eight stops, with four in the fourth quarter.
The Buckeyes had the advantage in ground balls, 18-13, paced by Torres with five and Stone and Ella Wright with three each.
Delaney Harlan led Ohio State with three draw controls.

Buckeye This and That

The game was the first between the Buckeyes and Panthers on the lacrosse field. Pitt is in its fifth season as a varsity program.
With two goals and two assists, Tyack marked her 18th career multiple-point outing and her ninth with four or more points. It was her second with multiple assists after a four-assist game April 13, 2024 at Northwestern.
Moneymaker's goal was the first of her collegiate career.
Vinson recorded her first goal, assist and points since a three-point day (1g, 2a) against Youngstown State Feb. 16, 2024.
Callaghan now has 192 collegiate points, with 161 goals and 31 assists.
Rudolph's goal was the second of her career and first since March 15, 2025 at San Diego State.
Freshman Abby Hawes made her collegiate debut in the game.
Harlan, who played in three games over the last two years, had the first three draw controls of her Buckeye career.

The Schedule Ahead

Three straight road games are up next for the Buckeyes, with trips to Louisville (Tuesday, Feb. 10), Cincinnati (Feb. 16) and defending NCAA champion North Carolina (Feb. 20).
Ohio State will then return home for a three-game homestand, welcoming Detroit Mercy (Feb. 27), Robert Morris (March 1) and Vanderbilt (March 7).
Admission and parking are free for all Ohio State regular season home games in Ohio State Lacrosse Stadium.