Though Ohio's offensive statistics rank among the best in the NCAA, the Bobcat offense remained dormant Wednesday in a pitcher’s duel to begin the Mid-American Conference Tournament.
Ohio fell to Bowling Green 2-0 in the first round of the Mid-American Conference Tournament Wednesday, but the Bobcats will remain alive in consollation bracket the double-elimination tourney.
Coach Rob Smith has said all season that the end goal of the season is to crack 12 conference wins and find a way into the Mid-American Conference Tournament.
Rome wasn’t built in one day, and after a year of setbacks and constant groundbreaking rescheduling, the multipurpose center hasn’t been either.
After moving its overall record above the .500-mark last weekend, Ohio will also attempt to achieve a winning conference record with just two weekends of play remaining.
When Ohio State’s Michelle Thomas passed Ohio’s Juli Accurso in the 10,000-meter race at the All-Ohio Championships, Accurso looked at her for a second before deciding to turn the attention back on her watch. It wasn’t time yet to run faster.
On a soggy Wednesday afternoon in West Virginia, Ohio couldn’t find the bats that propelled it to a nine-run game Tuesday.
Sarah Tranelli was a dual-athlete at Penfield High School in New York, where she played golf and basketball, but she chose to play golf collegiately.
So the time has finally arrived and, of course, it crept up faster than desired.
Entering the 2013 campaign, two Bobcats had hit at least 10 homers in a single-season —senior catcher Lauren Gellerman and junior third baseman Raven King.
Ohio’s pitching staff is at the forefront of a litany of concerns.
At Pruitt Field, the only recent Mid-American Conference title banners sidelining the track are the ones of cross-country and field hockey — for Ohio’s track and field team, a banner hasn’t been added since 1994.
Rob Smith had a large problem to deal with when he took over head coaching duties from Joe Carbone, who’d been in charge of the baseball program for 24 years.
Freshman center fielder Nick Squires reached base three times without recording a hit or seeing four pitches out of the strike zone in a 5-4 victory against Northern Illinois on Friday.
Much like the changing seasons and the emergence of the spring months, Ohio has evolved and looks like a different group of players since the first half of the season last fall.
2 hours, 14 minutes, 38 seconds.
Ohio coach Clay Calkins stood on the track last week in hot, humid weather when he said he hoped for a good meet at the Jesse Owens Track Classic in Columbus.
After pitching a complete game against Akron last Sunday, Ohio was counting on another clutch performance out of starting pitcher Connor Sitz.
For the first time this season, Ohio has swept a Mid-American Conference opponent, after winning both games against Akron this weekend.
What a difference a day can make.
Solutions by The State News