COLUMBUS — During the first intermission of Saturday’s Central Division matchup, maintenance workers inside Nationwide Arena fixed the goal light on the west end of the rink. The Blackhawks reaped the benefits.
Nelsonville-York ended its regular season by splitting two games this weekend against Athens County and conference rivals Alexander and Athens.
The Bobcats believed they deserved a more worthy BracketBuster opponent. Following Saturday night’s game, UNC-Asheville might be wishing Ohio had gotten one.
In by far the most competitive and hard-fought game at Bird Arena this season, Ohio overcame an inspired Robert Morris squad 3-2 on a Zach Tisdale overtime goal in the Central States Collegiate Hockey League tournament semifinals Saturday night.
Ohio University graduate student Adetunji Adedipe knows a thing or two about Athens. He played on the gridiron and the hardwood for the Bobcats and served with Student Senate during his four years as an undergraduate. The one surface he was never able to set foot on, however, was an indoor training facility.
As another season nears its end, so too does the career of at least one Bobcat standout.
Without any TV coverage, the “Bobcat Blackout” scheduled for Saturday turned out to be more ironic than many had hoped.
During player introductions at Ohio hockey games, easy-to-pronounce names from familiar-sounding places fill the air at Bird Arena: Schultz, Agnew, Pilmore and Gulch; Toledo, Pittsburgh, Akron and Cleveland.
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As a football player, David Carter sealed the edges of the line of scrimmage to give his teammates an advantage. Since that time, he has traded in the football gridiron for the “rough air” of entrepreneurship.
The first time Ohio lost back-to-back games this season, it was at the hands of Bowling Green. When the two teams meet again Wednesday night, Ohio will be looking to avoid losing a third consecutive game.
If a falcon and a bobcat were to fight, there wouldn’t be anything pretty about it, and toughness would determine the victor. That also was true Wednesday night at The Convo, as Ohio gutted out a critical win against visiting Bowling Green.
Akron’s home, James A. Rhodes Arena, is commonly referred to as the J.A.R., and Ohio could not bottle up enough shots to secure the victory Tuesday night.
The Ohio men’s golf team finished seventh in the inaugural Mid-American Conference Match Play tournament in Florida on Tuesday.
Since 1924, Ohio has only had four head baseball coaches. But a fifth will lead the team onto the turf at Bob Wren Stadium starting in 2013.
Joe Carbone has gotten lots of notes in the mail recently. But those notes aren’t valentines, and his birthday isn’t until May 16 — ironically, the day before his final series against rival Miami begins.
Whatever Ohio’s Tenishia Benson ate for breakfast Saturday morning should be added to the Bobcats’ training tables on a permanent basis.
Apparently, the weather is not the only thing that tends to go cold when Ohio travels northwest.
Losses are not erased in the second half of the season, but, as many Mid-American Conference teams are learning, sometimes it is easiest to view the latter half of the season as a clean slate than to see it as a daunting uphill battle.
Ohio has the chance to rekindle some of it’s Mid-American Conference magic when it visits Akron Tuesday night.
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