Senior Night Saturday as Buckeyes Host No. 2 Wildcats
4/14/2023 2:42:01 PM | Women's Lacrosse
Buckeyes vs. Wildcats | 6 p.m. | Saturday | Ohio State Lacrosse Stadium
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The Basics
- The Ohio State women’s lacrosse team closes its regular season home slate when it hosts No. 2 Northwestern at 6 p.m. Saturday.
- The teams will meet in Ohio State Lacrosse Stadium. Admission and parking are free.
- The game will be televised by ESPNU and live statistics will be available through OhioStateBuckeyes.com.
- The Buckeyes enter the game 5-9 on the year (0-4 B1G) and Northwestern is 13-1 (4-0 B1G).
Thank You Seniors
- Nine Buckeye seniors will be recognized pregame Saturday.
- The group includes Nicole Ferrara (Morristown, N.J.), Chloe Johnson (Derwood, Md.), Ava Keethler (Upper Arlington, Ohio), Jamie Level (Novato, Calif.), Claire Morris (Northport, N.Y.), Caly O’Brien (Holbrook, N.Y.), Bryce Pfundstein (Annapolis, Md.), Emily Rezabek (New Albany, Ohio) and Ashley Turner (Palm Beach Gardens, Fla.).
Buckeyes vs. Wildcats
- Last year, Ohio State and Northwestern met in Evanston, Ill., March 19, 2022, with the Wildcats posting a 22-14 victory.
- The Buckeyes and Northwestern last met in Columbus April 8, 2021, with the Wildcats winning 21-14.
- Northwestern is 13-1, with its loss to Syracuse in the season opener.
- The Wildcats have the nation’s top-scoring offense (18.14 goals per game) and are first in scoring margin (+8.64). The squad is fourth in clearing percentage (.926) and sixth in draw controls per game (17.36).
- Izzy Scane leads the NCAA in goals (5.67) and points (7.08) per game. Erin Coykendall is sixth with 5.21 points per outing.
Buckeye This and That
- The Buckeyes are averaging 10.0 goals a game and giving up 11.79 per outing.
- Northwestern is the fourth team in the current IWLCA Top 10 on the Ohio State schedule this season, along with No. 3 Denver, No. 4 James Madison and No. 10 Maryland. The Buckeyes also faced No. 13 Michigan, No. 18 Penn State, No. 20 USC and No. 25 Johns Hopkins.
- Junior Jamie Lasda leads the Buckeyes with 25 assists and 46 points and is second with 21 goals. She had a career-high five assists and seven points in a victory over Louisville March 28. Lasda has three or more points in nine of the last 10 games and at least one point in all but one game this year.
- Senior Nicole Ferrara is first on the squad with 35 goals and second with 44 points. She reached the 100-goal mark for her career at Marquette April 4. The 35 goals are a career best, passing the 31 scored last season, when she added 21 assists for a career-best 52 points. Ferrara is on a team-high nine-game point streak and was held scoreless just one time this season (Feb. 25 vs. Denver).
- Sophomore Maddie Barhorst scored her first collegiate goal and point in the first quarter at Marquette April 4 and then tallied in the next game at Maryland.
- Redshirt freshman Annie Hargraves has at least one goal in each of the last four games, with nine in the stretch. She has 11 goals this season, including two hat tricks.
- Three freshmen have started for the Buckeyes this season. Casey Roberts started each of the first 14, Zoe Coleman has 13 starts and Katie Kaucheck has been in the starting lineup the last 10 outings.
- Coleman has a point in 10 of the first 14 games, with three mutliple-point outings and three multi-goal performances. She has a 10-4-14 line this year.
- Roberts has tallied 14 goals and four assists for 18 points and has a point in 10 of 14 games, with a goal in nine outings.
- Sarah Johnson, Ava Keethler and Emily Magalotti have started all 14 games on defense for the Buckeyes. Magalotti had a career-high six ground balls vs. Louisville land is second on the team with 24 this season.
- Junior Regan Alexander started the first 14 games in the cage for the Buckeyes and has a career-best 132 saves, with 10-plus in eight outings. Alexander had 130 saves last season in her first year as the starter. She notched a career-best 15 saves against Marquette April 4, passing the 14 she had twice earlier this season. She is eighth nationally in saves and 20th in saves per game (9.50).
- Alexander has a team-best and career-high 34 ground balls, including a career-high 11 vs. Johns Hopkins, the second-most in a game in the NCAA this season.
- Caly O’Brien leads the Buckeyes with 38 draw controls after recording 10 in her first 38 games in the Scarlet and Gray. Lasda is second with 34 after posting nine her first two years. Jamie Level is third with 32 and has two collegiate seasons with 50+ draw controls.
- Chloë Johnson, who missed the first seven games and has had limited playing time since returning to the lineup, has 20 draw controls this season. She is in second place in Ohio State history with 229 draw controls, as she passed Katie Chase who had 221 from 2012-15. Molly Wood holds the program record with 237 from 2015-18. Johnson set the Buckeye record with 124 last season, the first Ohio State player with more than 100 draw controls in a season.
The Schedule Ahead
- The regular season wraps up at Rutgers April 20, with the teams meeting in Piscataway, N.J., at 6 p.m. on BTN.
After a quarterfinal round slate of games at campus sites hosted by higher seeds April 29, Ohio State will host the Big Ten Tournament semifinals and final. The semis are set for 6 and 8:30 p.m. May 4 and the final will be played at 8 p.m. May 6. Ticket information will be coming soon.
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