Buckeyes Clinch Iowa Series With 10-2 Victory

Sunday, March 8

Columbus, Ohio

11 a.m.

Ohio State

8-12, 0

Iowa

14-8, 0

Iowa

Ohio State

Buckeyes Clinch Iowa Series With 10-2 Victory

3/8/2026 1:38:00 PM | Softball

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Ohio State will host Western Michigan Tuesday and Akron Wednesday

COLUMBUS, Ohio – The Ohio State softball team (8-12) clinched its first conference series win of 2026 in a 10-2 victory against the Iowa Hawkeyes on Sunday. Six different Buckeyes collected hits in the win, including home runs courtesy of Kiki Estrada, Hailey Lang, and Hadley Parisien. Lang's home run was her third in as many games. Estrada, Parisien, and Reagan Milliken drove in seven of the team's 10 runs.

Jenna Molk improved to 5-7 on the year. Molk has not allowed more than two earned runs in each of her wins and has tossed at least five innings in those victories. Her two strikeouts today bring her to 39 on the season, good for a team best.

How it Happened, 6 inn.

Ohio State took a 1-0 lead in the first inning with a fielder's choice off the bat of Kiki Estrada that scored Hadley Parisien
Iowa tied the game in the third via a Devin Sipe RBI double that scored Tory Bennett.
The Buckeyes retook the lead 4-1 in the bottom half of the inning with an Estrada homer that scored Abbie Wilhelm and a solo shot off the bat of Hailey Lang.
Iowa got a run back in the top of the fourth on a Leah McAnally solo home run.
Hadley Parisien notched her third home run of the season in the bottom of the fourth, scoring Sami Bewick to put Ohio State back up four.
The Buckeyes shut the door in the sixth with four runs scored on a Wilhelm walk that scored Bewick, a Reagan Milliken RBI double that scored Parisien and Sara Tarr, and a Taylor Cruse infield single that scored Wilhelm to seal the game 10-2.
Jenna Molk went the distance, picking up her fifth win of the season while scattering six hits and striking out two.
Braylen Conlon got the start and the loss for Iowa.

What's Next
The Buckeyes will host two midweek games, matching up with Western Michigan (8-8) at 4 p.m. Tuesday and Akron (8-16) at 5 p.m. Wednesday. Links to purchasing single-game tickets are available on the schedule page of OhioStateBuckeyes.com, with a limited number of free student tickets available with a BuckID. Buckeye Field will offer both general admission and reserved seating. Children under two will be admitted free but must sit on an adult's lap. Contact the Ohio State Athletics Ticket Office at 1-800-GOBUCKS or Athletic.tix@osu.edu for more information on ticket information.