If 2010 is like 2009, you won't have any sort of schedule from the Department of Athletics until wintertime.
However I'll do my best to piece together bits and pieces of the 56 games the Big Ten defending champs are scheduled to play.
Courtesy of WBIR.com, the University of Tennessee has announced it will host a tournament with the Buckeyes, Vols, Connecticut, and Marshall March 12-14.
March 12 Friday Ohio State vs. Marshall 1 p.m.
March 13 Saturday Tennessee vs. Ohio State 5 p.m.
March 14 Sunday Connecticut vs. Ohio State noon.
Ball State athletics released their schedule, and per par the Cardinals will make a midweek trip to Columbus Wed May 12th. Lets hope 20 unanswered runs will not be the case this time around. Ball State's full schedule
As previously mentioned the Buckeyes will play in the 2nd Big East-Big Ten Challenge Feb 26-28.
In the return trip the Buckeyes host Louisville for a Tuesday-Wednesday pair of games mid-May as that series continues.
Ohio State's 2010 Spring Break is March 22-26, expect games to be played in Florida the 19th through 24th, as Big Ten play I believe will start on the 26th.
Along with the 24 Big Ten games, that gives us a total of 33, only 23 to go!
That is all I have for now. Stay tuned.
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Wednesday, September 2, 2009
Monday, March 2, 2009
Lucky 7's. Bucks Move to 7-0 on the Strength of 7 HR's.
Power Surge Leads to 21-14 Win and 7-0 Start
Every starter scored a run and nearly every starter hit a home run as Ohio State defeated Connecticut, 21-14, Saturday at Harmon Field to improve to 7-0 on the season. The 7-0 record ties for the third-best start ever for an Ohio State team with only two teams – the 1917 team opened 10-0 and the 1991 won its first eight games – opening the season with a better record.
The Buckeyes pounded 21 hits against five UConn pitchers. Seven of those hits were home runs, including five in the third inning that enable the Buckeyes to come back from a 4-2 deficit and take a 10-4 lead. The seven home runs increased the team’s total to 15 in 2009 after hitting only 19 the entire 2008 season.
In that third inning and with one out, Justin Miller hit a solo shot, Dan Burkhart walked and Cory Rupert homered. Then with two out, Michael Arp singled, Matt Streng homered over the scoreboard in left field, Zach Hurley singled, Cory Kovanda homered and then Michael Stephens homered. Single inning home run records are not tracked in the Ohio State media guide, so it is unsure whether a record was set.
Hurley added a two-run shot in the fourth inning and Streng, a sophomore from Upper Arlington in the starting lineup for only the second time, hit another towering blast in the seventh inning that made the score 21-13. Streng’s home runs were not only the first two of his career, but they came from both sides of the plate. No idea when – if ever – that’s been accomplished by a Buckeye.
Ohio State added five runs in both the fourth and sixth innings to maintain a goal-line-stand advantage over a Huskie team, now 3-3 on the year, that would not quit. Despite trailing by scores of 10-4 and 15-6, the Huskies kept swinging the bats against an array of Ohio State pitchers – freshman Ross Oltorik made his first collegiate start and he was followed by Theron Minium, Jared Strayer and Drew Rucinski – and closed the gap to 15-12 through six innings. The Huskies totaled 18 hits for the game with five players having two or more.
Minium, who entered the game in the bottom of the third with Ohio State trailing 4-2, picked up the win. He and Strayer joined Oltorik in seeing their first action of the 2009 season. Minium was pitching for the first time since the 2007 season as he red-shirted last year.
Jake Hale came in and finished his fifth game of the season by pitching a scoreless ninth inning. UConn starter Greg Nappo gave up eight runs off eight hits in 2.2 innings and dropped to 1-1 with the loss.
Game Notes and Recap courtsey Ohiostatebuckeyes.com
Box Score
Every starter scored a run and nearly every starter hit a home run as Ohio State defeated Connecticut, 21-14, Saturday at Harmon Field to improve to 7-0 on the season. The 7-0 record ties for the third-best start ever for an Ohio State team with only two teams – the 1917 team opened 10-0 and the 1991 won its first eight games – opening the season with a better record.
The Buckeyes pounded 21 hits against five UConn pitchers. Seven of those hits were home runs, including five in the third inning that enable the Buckeyes to come back from a 4-2 deficit and take a 10-4 lead. The seven home runs increased the team’s total to 15 in 2009 after hitting only 19 the entire 2008 season.
In that third inning and with one out, Justin Miller hit a solo shot, Dan Burkhart walked and Cory Rupert homered. Then with two out, Michael Arp singled, Matt Streng homered over the scoreboard in left field, Zach Hurley singled, Cory Kovanda homered and then Michael Stephens homered. Single inning home run records are not tracked in the Ohio State media guide, so it is unsure whether a record was set.
Hurley added a two-run shot in the fourth inning and Streng, a sophomore from Upper Arlington in the starting lineup for only the second time, hit another towering blast in the seventh inning that made the score 21-13. Streng’s home runs were not only the first two of his career, but they came from both sides of the plate. No idea when – if ever – that’s been accomplished by a Buckeye.
Ohio State added five runs in both the fourth and sixth innings to maintain a goal-line-stand advantage over a Huskie team, now 3-3 on the year, that would not quit. Despite trailing by scores of 10-4 and 15-6, the Huskies kept swinging the bats against an array of Ohio State pitchers – freshman Ross Oltorik made his first collegiate start and he was followed by Theron Minium, Jared Strayer and Drew Rucinski – and closed the gap to 15-12 through six innings. The Huskies totaled 18 hits for the game with five players having two or more.
Minium, who entered the game in the bottom of the third with Ohio State trailing 4-2, picked up the win. He and Strayer joined Oltorik in seeing their first action of the 2009 season. Minium was pitching for the first time since the 2007 season as he red-shirted last year.
Jake Hale came in and finished his fifth game of the season by pitching a scoreless ninth inning. UConn starter Greg Nappo gave up eight runs off eight hits in 2.2 innings and dropped to 1-1 with the loss.
Game Notes and Recap courtsey Ohiostatebuckeyes.com
Box Score
Sunday, March 9, 2008
Buckeyes Salvage Finale in West Palm Beach
Ohio State was cruising against UConn Sunday. The Buckeyes put up five runs in the first six innings before starter J.B. Shuck handed a 5-0 lead over to Jake Hale, who was making his 2008 debut after missing the first two weekends because of tendonitis, in the seventh. Hale struck out his first two batters before allowing a home run to Harold Brantley Jr. in the seventh. After the Buckeyes used a sac fly to take a 6-1 lead, three more Huskies scored in the bottom of the inning to pull within two, 6-4. Hale retired the batters in order in the ninth to preserve a 6-4 victory (box score).
Shuck must have looked spectacular in his third start of the season (2-1). He allowed only one hit in 6.0 scoreless innings. He struck out three, walked three, hit one and balked once. He stayed in the game as the DH when Hale took over on the mound in the bottom of the seventh. Hale allowed four runs, three earned, on three hits in his 3.0 innings to pick up the save. He will likely move into a starting role next week on spring break
The Buckeyes, though, again had three errors in the game. UConn had five. It must have been ugly since the teams combined for just as many hits as they did errors. Ohio State now has 23 errors in their nine games, an average of 2.6 per game. It has just one error-free game this season and committed nine errors this weekend in West Palm Beach.
Justin Miller had two of the Buckeyes’ eight hits. He also knocked in two. Six other Buckeyes had a hit, while Tony Kennedy and Dan Burkhart drove in the other two RBI. Six hits came from the top five spots in the batting order.
The Buckeyes are 5-4 and will take winter quarter final exams this week before opening the spring trip in Bradenton March 15-21. The first game of the trip will be against Bucknell at 3 p.m. next Saturday at Ed Smith Stadium in Sarasota. The rest of the games will be played in Bradenton, either at IMG Academy Park or Manatee Community College.
Shuck must have looked spectacular in his third start of the season (2-1). He allowed only one hit in 6.0 scoreless innings. He struck out three, walked three, hit one and balked once. He stayed in the game as the DH when Hale took over on the mound in the bottom of the seventh. Hale allowed four runs, three earned, on three hits in his 3.0 innings to pick up the save. He will likely move into a starting role next week on spring break
The Buckeyes, though, again had three errors in the game. UConn had five. It must have been ugly since the teams combined for just as many hits as they did errors. Ohio State now has 23 errors in their nine games, an average of 2.6 per game. It has just one error-free game this season and committed nine errors this weekend in West Palm Beach.
Justin Miller had two of the Buckeyes’ eight hits. He also knocked in two. Six other Buckeyes had a hit, while Tony Kennedy and Dan Burkhart drove in the other two RBI. Six hits came from the top five spots in the batting order.
The Buckeyes are 5-4 and will take winter quarter final exams this week before opening the spring trip in Bradenton March 15-21. The first game of the trip will be against Bucknell at 3 p.m. next Saturday at Ed Smith Stadium in Sarasota. The rest of the games will be played in Bradenton, either at IMG Academy Park or Manatee Community College.
Thursday, March 6, 2008
Scouting the Opposition
Air Force: The Falcons took a 2-5 record with them to West Palm Beach for the Papa John's Palm Beach Challenge. They were slated to open play Thursday against Maine, but the game was rained out. The team is batting .247 and is led by Nathan Carter’s .417 batting average. Of his 10 hits, he has three doubles and a triple while driving in five runs. Matt Alexander has a .385 batting average and has the team’s only home run. He paces the team with nine RBI and also has 10 hits, including a pair of doubles and a triple. The pitching staff has a 6.20 ERA. Alex Truesdale has made two starts and is 0-1 with 10 strikeouts and a 2.81 ERA in 16.0 innings. Michael Ruvolo has made four appearances and has a 0.93 ERA in 9.2 innings. Jake Petro leads the team with three starts, but has pitched 10.1 innings and shares the team lead with 10 strikeouts though has a 10.97 ERA. Air Force was 8-44 overall in 2007 and went winless in 23 Mountain West Conference games.
MAINE: The Black Bears are 4-5 and have lost five straight games after claiming a pair of doubleheaders at Delaware State to open the season. The team was swept in a three-game series at UNLV and is 0-2 on its current spring trip in south Florida, losing to Notre Dame and Florida International. A game vs. Air Force on Thursday was rained out. The team is batting .335 and is led by Curt Smith’s .487 average (19-for-39) and four home runs. He also has 10 RBI. Myckie Lugbauer is batting .474 and paces the squad with five doubles and 12 RBI. Joe Miller has made two starts and is 1-0 with an 0.75 ERA in 12.0 innings though has walked seven against six strikeouts. No other starter has an ERA lower than 4.91 on a staff that has a 7.07 collective ERA entering a split doubleheader between Air Force and Ohio State on Saturday. Maine compiled a 22-31 record for the 2007 season and went 12-11 to earn a fourth-place finish in the American East Conference.
CONNECTICUT: UConn has started its season 0-6 with losses to Missouri, Stetson, Michigan State and three to UNC-Greensboro. The Huskies will face Air Force on Saturday before squaring off against the Buckeyes on Sunday. Mike Oly leads the Huskies with a .409 average though the team is batting just .201. The team’s ERA is 6.75. The Huskies went 34-27 overall in 2007 and finished eighth in the Big East with a 10-14 record.
Check out the official Ohio State release entering the weekend.
MAINE: The Black Bears are 4-5 and have lost five straight games after claiming a pair of doubleheaders at Delaware State to open the season. The team was swept in a three-game series at UNLV and is 0-2 on its current spring trip in south Florida, losing to Notre Dame and Florida International. A game vs. Air Force on Thursday was rained out. The team is batting .335 and is led by Curt Smith’s .487 average (19-for-39) and four home runs. He also has 10 RBI. Myckie Lugbauer is batting .474 and paces the squad with five doubles and 12 RBI. Joe Miller has made two starts and is 1-0 with an 0.75 ERA in 12.0 innings though has walked seven against six strikeouts. No other starter has an ERA lower than 4.91 on a staff that has a 7.07 collective ERA entering a split doubleheader between Air Force and Ohio State on Saturday. Maine compiled a 22-31 record for the 2007 season and went 12-11 to earn a fourth-place finish in the American East Conference.
CONNECTICUT: UConn has started its season 0-6 with losses to Missouri, Stetson, Michigan State and three to UNC-Greensboro. The Huskies will face Air Force on Saturday before squaring off against the Buckeyes on Sunday. Mike Oly leads the Huskies with a .409 average though the team is batting just .201. The team’s ERA is 6.75. The Huskies went 34-27 overall in 2007 and finished eighth in the Big East with a 10-14 record.
Check out the official Ohio State release entering the weekend.
Against the Opposition
Ohio State heads to West Palm Beach, Fla., this weekend for three games against Air Force, Maine and Connecticut. All three games will be played at the Santaluces Sports Complex. The Buckeyes will take on Air Force Friday at 7 p.m., ET, before meeting the Black Bears Saturday at 5 p.m. The team closes out the weekend vs. UConn Sunday at noon. Let The Buckeye Nine know if you’ll be going to the games. If so, email the blog a few photos at BuckeyeNine@gmail.com.
Air Force: Buckeyes lead series 1-0
This will be just the second ever meeting between Air Force and Ohio State. The Buckeyes claimed the first meeting 5-4 in 2000 at the Service Academies Spring Classic in Millington, Tenn., the same locale where both teams opened the 2008 season.
Maine: First meeting between programs
The Buckeyes and Black Bears have never met on the baseball diamond.
Connecticut: Buckeyes lead series 3-2
Ohio State has won two consecutive games in this series and took a one-game lead in the five previous games between the schools with a 2-1 victory last season in Jacksonville, Fla., at the Kennel Club Classic. OSU coach Bob Todd is 3-1 against the Huskies at Ohio State. UConn downed the Buckeyes 1-0 in the first-ever meeting between the programs in 1970. Three of the five games in the series have been decided by one run and another was a two-run game.
Air Force: Buckeyes lead series 1-0
This will be just the second ever meeting between Air Force and Ohio State. The Buckeyes claimed the first meeting 5-4 in 2000 at the Service Academies Spring Classic in Millington, Tenn., the same locale where both teams opened the 2008 season.
Maine: First meeting between programs
The Buckeyes and Black Bears have never met on the baseball diamond.
Connecticut: Buckeyes lead series 3-2
Ohio State has won two consecutive games in this series and took a one-game lead in the five previous games between the schools with a 2-1 victory last season in Jacksonville, Fla., at the Kennel Club Classic. OSU coach Bob Todd is 3-1 against the Huskies at Ohio State. UConn downed the Buckeyes 1-0 in the first-ever meeting between the programs in 1970. Three of the five games in the series have been decided by one run and another was a two-run game.
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