Kent, Ohio — Signage in Dix Stadium pronounces it as, “The House that Hazell Built.” Ohio could do nothing to demolish it, or the Golden Flashes’ season Friday.
After Ohio’s eight-point win against Hampton Tuesday, the Bobcats looked far from satisfied — even a bit dejected. Their margin of victory was its slimmest of the young season, and Ohio senior forward Ivo Baltic admitted to seeing his team outworked at different points in the game.
In the spirit of “no-shave November,” members of Ohio’s hockey team are growing out their facial hair. But those aren’t the only mustaches becoming popular at Bird Arena.
Impressive, phenomenal, huge — those are only a few of the many positive adjectives Ohio swim coach Greg Werner uses to describe his diving team. Werner’s voice sounds excited whenever he talks about the diving program.
Heading into the season, Ohio coach Jim Christian said the Bobcats’ ability to have different players enter the limelight on any given night gives his team an edge when it comes to versatility in setting an offensive game plan.
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Ohio trailed its opponent for only 11 seconds of game play in 80 minutes of competition during the weekend, besting University of North Carolina at Wilmington and Wofford by a cumulative 61 points.
After Friday’s 3-2 overtime loss to Illinois, Ohio’s locker room was almost silent, the clanking of sticks and the untying of skates were the only sounds filling the air.
After being handed its worst loss since 2010 by Minnesota the day before, Ohio showed some character in a close first half, but ultimately lost to University of Nevada Las Vegas 60-51 Sunday.
After winning the outright Mid-American Conference regular-season title last weekend, top-seeded Ohio was upset by No. 4 Northern Illinois in a five-set battle in Saturday’s semifinal MAC Tournament match.
American author F. Scott Fitzgerald once said: “Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat.” The Bobcats matched the quote perfectly by clinching the Patriot Invitational at George Mason in Fairfax, Va., after losing the first two dual meets this season.
Ohio basketball recently received four National Letters of Intent. The 2013 recruiting class includes D.J. Wingfield, Maurice Ndour, Wadley Mompremier and Antonio Campbell.
In a game where Ohio donned black uniforms, the performance was just as dark.
A split series against Indiana (8-5-1) left Ohio coach Dan Morris with a lot to work on this week in practice, looking for improvement from the No. 3 team in the American Collegiate Hockey Association.
After an encouraging 63-56 victory against Cleveland State in the season opener, Ohio is off to the Land of 10,000 Lakes to play the Minnesota Golden Gophers in the Subway Classic.
University of North Carolina at Wilmington comes to The Convo on Friday in hopes of avenging its third-worst loss in program history: a 43-point defeat at the hands of Ohio’s Week Three opponent, Richmond, earlier in the week.
After seven weekends of Mid-American Conference action, Ohio is ready to put its regular season experience to the test in this weekend’s conference tournament in Geneva, Ohio.
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With two and a half minutes remaining in the first half Wednesday, Ball State junior quarterback Keith Wenning dropped back and handed the ball to junior wide receiver Jamill Smith. Instead of continuing to play the fake, Wenning kept running upfield, where he gathered a 17-yard pass from Smith.
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