Baseball: Ohio prepares for matchup against rebuilding Kent State
By Christian Hoppens | Apr. 3, 2013For Ohio baseball, it’s been the same story on different days.
For Ohio baseball, it’s been the same story on different days.
While most Ohio students will be showing their mothers the Bobcat ways during Mom’s Weekend, freshman pitcher Savannah Jo Dorsey grew up with an understanding of Ohio traditions.
On the last lap of the mile at the Mid-American Indoor conference championship, Melissa Thompson was in third place, fighting to keep up with the leading pack of teammate Juli Accurso and Eastern Michigan’s Victoria Voronko.
After experiencing offensive inconsistencies last weekend, Ohio will attempt to regroup and continue Mid-American Conference play when it travels to the northwest part of the state this weekend.
Spring and the promise of warm weather threatens to break the vice grip winter has held on Athens for quite some time.
After setting the program’s single-season record for home runs as a sophomore, third baseman Raven King entered this season expecting to break her own record again.
If a team were 8.5 games under .500 nearing the halfway point of the season, it would be time to sound the alarm, yes?
When Keven Lightner, Ohio offensive line coach, walks through the Peden Stadium weight room, he more often than not sees one of “his guys,” past or present.
Entering her senior year, first baseman Caitlin Colvin had just 11 hits in her career. But past the halfway point this season, she has hit 13 home runs — tying the program’s single-season record.
If there is any indication aside from the obvious that the 2012-2013 season is over, it is that the list of the season goals, once pinned above a desk in Ohio coach Greg Werner’s office, is gone.
Come Saturday, the Ohio men’s golf team will end its month-long hiatus and tee off in Bloomington, Ind.
Last weekend’s series on the road against Mid-American Conference opponent Eastern Michigan started out with a 5-3 victory and an opportunity for Ohio to notch its first series victory of the season.
Entering the first weekend of Mid-American Conference play, Ohio coach Jodi Hermanek stressed the importance of the Bobcats playing like the best team in the MAC.
Now that the summit of March Madness is upon us, it’s time to debunk one of the most absurd basketball myths: the notion that college basketball players try harder than NBA players do.
For the first time in program history, Ohio’s women’s basketball will have a male head coach, as Ohio Athletics announced the hire of Bob Boldon on Thursday.
Much like the Midwestern weather of Ohio, the Bobcat offense has been consistently inconsistent.
While watching Virginia Commonwealth dismantle Akron in the NCAA Tournament Thursday, Ohio signee Maurice Ndour found himself itching for his first one-on-one with Zips star forward Demetrius Treadwell, who had his way with the Bobcats last season.
Having already earned seven Mid-American Conference individual accolades since the beginning of the season, Ohio finally will display its talents to the conference when MAC play begins this weekend against Kent State and Buffalo.
Ohio Athletics announced Thursday the hire of its new women’s basketball coach Bob Boldon, formerly of Youngstown State, less than three weeks after deciding not to renew former coach Semeka Randall’s contract.
On a cold, windy day with a temperature just above freezing, Ohio coach Clay Calkins stood on the track packed in a thick winter coat, hat and gloves, while his athletes ran around a track that had just recently been cleared of snow.