Buckeyes Pick Up B1G Win at No. 4 Northwestern, 16-15

Sunday, March 15

Evanston, Ill.

1 p.m. ET

Ohio State

6-2, 1-0Big Ten

Northwestern

5-3, 0-1Big Ten

Team	1	2	3	4	Final F
Ohio State	5	4	3	4	16
Northwestern	6	4	3	2	15

Buckeyes Pick Up B1G Win at No. 4 Northwestern, 16-15

3/15/2026 4:15:00 PM | Women's Lacrosse

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Torres makes 12 saves, Tyack, Paz and Stone lead offense

COLUMBUS, Ohio – The Ohio State women's lacrosse team started its Big Ten schedule with a 16-15 win over No. 4 Northwestern Sunday in Ryan Fieldhouse in Evanston, Ill. The Buckeyes were down 10-9 at the half and 13-12 through three quarters but tallied three of the game's final four goals for the win, capped by a Kampbell Stone score with 1:12 remaining and a Jocelyn Torres save with 21 seconds left.

Kate Tyack had a career-high six goals in the win, including point 100 of her Buckeye career, and Maddy Paz notched a hat trick and four assists for a career-best seven points. Torres made 12 saves in the Buckeye cage, with nine in the second half. Stone had two goals on the day and Annie Hargraves and Camryn Callaghan both recorded two goals and an assist for three points. Callaghan also had a team-high three ground balls and two caused turnovers. Abby Boyle was first with five draw controls, followed by Stone with three.

The Buckeyes improve to 6-2 on the year, with the Wildcats now 5-3. The game opened the league slate for both teams.

The Schedule Ahead

The Buckeyes will return home to host Rutgers at 6 p.m. March 19.
Admission and parking are free for all Ohio State regular season home games in Ohio State Lacrosse Stadium.
Ohio State will then play at No. 8 Johns Hopkins at noon March 22 in Baltimore.

How it Happened

The teams combined for 11 goals in the first quarter. The Buckeyes led early, with a Northwestern run putting the home team up 6-5.
The Buckeyes scored the game's first two goals and five of the first six for a 5-1 lead at 5:55.
Kate Tyack had a first quarter hat trick, with goals at 13:41, 6:39 and 5:55. Annie Hargraves and Kampbell Stone also scored in the stretch (10:38 and 8:47), with three of the Buckeye goals player-up. Maddy Paz set up two Tyack scores and Zoe Coleman assisted on the game's first goal.
The Wildcats notched the next five goals for a 6-5 lead, tying the game with 2:36 left and going ahead at 1:40.
Ohio State's Paz tied the game at 13:48 of the second quarter but the Wildcats answered with a four-goal run to move ahead 10-6.
The Buckeyes tallied three times in the last 1:38 of the second quarter to draw within one. Camryn Callaghan and Tyack converted free position chances at 1:38 and :45 and Hargraves made it a one-goal game with just 15 seconds left in the quarter.
Northwestern scored the first two goals of the third quarter to push the lead to three (12-9) at 11:18, its second three-goal lead of the game.
Ohio State responded with the next three to tie the game at 12. Tyack tallied unassisted at 4:58, Paz set up a Callaghan score at 3:02 and Callaghan then found Zoe Coleman with the Buckeyes player up at 1:51.
A Northwestern goal with 35 seconds left put the Wildcats ahead 13-12 at the end of the third.
The teams traded goals at 9:39 and 8:25 of the fourth quarter, with Paz scoring for Ohio State, for a 14-13 Northwestern lead.
Tyack deadlocked the score at 7:31 and Hargraves set up a Paz tally at 4:31 to give the Buckeyes a 15-14 lead.
Northwestern tied the game once again at 2:03.
Stone moved the Buckeyes back ahead with the eventual gamewinner at 1:12, scoring from up high off a pass from Paz.
A Jocelyn Torres save with 21 seconds left, followed by a Katie Kaucheck ground ball, helped close out the win.
Torres ended the game with 12 saves. After three in the first half, she stopped three attempts in the third quarter and six in the fourth.
Northwestern led in draw controls, 21-12, and was ahead in ground balls, 15-13.
Callaghan paced the Buckeyes with three ground balls, while Kaucheck and Darrien Furiness each had two. Abby Boyle recorded five draw controls and Stone notched three.

Buckeye This and That

The win was the Buckeyes' first over a top 10 team since a 16-13 victory at No. 9 Penn State April 9, 2016, with Ohio State ranked 12th at the time,. It was the first win over a team ranked in the top 5 since an unranked Ohio State squad beat No. 4 Northwestern in overtime 11-10 March 9, 2014.
The win was the Buckeyes' first over Northwestern since that 2014 contest, ending a 12-game losing streak to the Wildcats.
Tyack's six goals were a career high, topping the five goals she scored at Oregon last season, and came on six shots. The six points were tied for the second-most in her career after a seven-point outing vs. Cincinnati earlier this year. She has 105 points as a Buckeye, with 81 goals and is on a 14-game point streak (35g, 47p). Tyack leads this year's Buckeyes with 23 goals and 34 points and is second with 11 assists.
Paz marked her career best with seven points, her second game with more than two goals and her second career four-assist outing. She has seven-straight multiple-point games and now has 27 points on the year, with 15 goals and a team-best 12 assists.
Torres had her ninth career game with double-digit saves.
Callaghan is second on the squad with 22 goals and 31 points, ranking third with nine assists. She now has 217 career points (179g, 38a). Callaghan has a point in each of her last 23 games, with a 60-15-75 line in the stretch.
Boyle leads Ohio State with 47 draw controls this year.
Stone has 12 multiple-goal outings as a Buckeye.
Hargraves' assist was the third of her career and first since 2025. It was her 16th multiple-goal outing and her eighth game with three