Baseball: Ohio's offense put off by pitching
By Christian Hoppens | Apr. 8, 2013A record of 6-24, the worst in the Mid-American Conference, suggests a team that is struggling on all cylinders, failing to produce with the glove, arms and bats.
A record of 6-24, the worst in the Mid-American Conference, suggests a team that is struggling on all cylinders, failing to produce with the glove, arms and bats.
The defending Mid-American Conference champions and College World Series participant Kent State trailed in the bottom of the eighth after a four-run outburst in the fifth provided Ohio with a one-run lead Friday night.
When mid-distance runner Danielle Winningham took to the starting block for the 4 x 100-meter relay, she found herself in an unusual event.
Despite breaking all-time program marks at an incredible pace, Ohio has yet to win a series in Mid-American Conference play, after splitting with Toledo and Bowling Green this weekend.
Ohio faced a 14-team field at the Eastern Kentucky Lady Colonel Classic this weekend, but was able to muster its fifth-lowest three-round score in program history and a fifth place showing.
Coming off a weekend with two competitions and several season bests, the Bobcats are ready to head into their first home meet of the season, competing in the annual team challenge and distance open.
The Ohio women’s golf team is set to compete in the Lady Colonel Classic in Richmond, Ky., at Arlington Golf Club Friday and Saturday.
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.