Hockey: Bobcats' evolution
By Jacob DeSmit | Sep. 20, 2012The Ohio club hockey team has finished preparations for the upcoming season and the squad has made some adjustments with the new roster additions.
The Ohio club hockey team has finished preparations for the upcoming season and the squad has made some adjustments with the new roster additions.
Optimism is in the eyes of Ohio coach Clay Calkins now that the Bobcats’ men’s and women’s cross country seasons are heating up. The Bobcats will travel to Ottawa Park, the stomping grounds of Toledo’s No. 18 men’s and women’s teams Friday, to square off against six nationally ranked teams across both divisions.
After its three games this season, the Ohio football team possesses an unblemished record. However, the team has needed a strong second half in each game to get to that point.
With the start of each Mid-American Conference schedule, there are always questions and unexpected turns during the course of the season. This season is no different as the Bobcats start MAC play Friday at Bowling Green and at Central Michigan on Sunday.
Ohio’s media guide lists redshirt senior Ryan Clark as a cornerback despite the fact that he’s lined up as a wide receiver in every game this season.
With the Mid-American Conference schedule opening this weekend, Ohio is ready to take the court and begin its attempt to win the MAC East for the tenth consecutive season.
As the Bobcats prepare to begin their Mid-American Conference schedule this weekend at both Bowling Green and Miami, the team is hopeful to continue its recent dominance in the East Division.
Although they are separated by a year of eligibility, two Ohio women’s soccer defenders have bonded on the back line this year.
Ohio wrestling coach Joel Greenlee began his collegiate wrestling career as a freshman at Northern Iowa, a perennial wrestling powerhouse he proclaimed is the university’s “premiere program.”
The Mid-American Conference landscape will undergo a landscape change next season with the addition of three teams.
Throughout the Bobcats’ last four games, they have amassed 66 shots, half of which were on goal, 37 corners and only four regulation goals. The number of times the ball is blasted to the twine is Ohio’s chief focus as it enters Mid-American Conference play Friday.
Scott Stricklin didn’t fully realize his dream of becoming the coach of his alma mater until he was on his way to his interview at Kent State.
Historically, the Mid-American Conference has been a hotbed for talented quarterbacks like Chad Pennington, Byron Leftwich and Ben Roethlisberger.
Despite entering the weekend with a four-match winning streak, including 12 consecutive set victories, Ohio fell to a pair of Atlantic Coastal
With less than a minute remaining in Ohio and Marshall’s 56th Battle for the Bell meeting, Thundering Herd sophomore quarterback Rakeem Cato had the Bobcats right where he wanted: deep in their territory with the ball in his hands.
After using the top runners on each Ohio cross country team in last weekend’s Harry Groves Invitational, this meet served as an opportunity to rest up and gain some experience for next weekend’s meet.
Ohio dominated every facet of its game against Robert Morris Saturday, and owned every stat on the score sheet, but the game’s final score wasn’t indicative of how the Bobcats outplayed the Colonials.
Ohio squares off against Marshall in the Battle for Bell rivalry. Ohio leads the series 30-19-9. The Thundering Herd feature a prolific passing attack led by Rakeem Cato. Ohio's offense is not pedestrian either. The ground game is spearheaded by Beau Blankenship who has run for 277 yards on 58 carries.
In 2010, the University of Dayton released a video with the concept of “flying right” both in the classroom and on the field. Former Flyer and current Bobcat junior forward Maggie Murnane would have made the video proud Friday.
The opening kickoff by Matt Weller that resulted in a touchback and a couple defensive stops on running plays were the only positives for Ohio on the game's first drive.