For the past four weeks, four days a week, coach Frank Solich took to the turf at Peden Stadium to oversee his squad’s progress through spring football practice. Rain or shine, 3 p.m. or 9 p.m., he wore a beige sun hat and a green Ohio polo shirt.
Junior center fielder Ethan Newton leads off an April 15 game against Northern Illinois with a hit. As he jogs onto first base, another game begins.
The Major League Baseball season is 27 days old, with 155 more to go before 22 teams head home at the end of summer. It’s time to talk about the playoffs.
The Bobcats went into the weekend hoping for some better fortune than they’ve had in past weeks. But, that was not the case at the Boilermaker Invitational.
A trend has appeared in the results of Ohio baseball games during the past three weeks: whoever scores first wins.
April showers did not bring success for the Bobcats.
Despite the Weaver twins being in the top 10 for most of the weekend, Ohio’s team effort fell short at the Mid-American Conference Championships.
Ohio trailed Eastern Michigan 5-3 in the top of the sixth inning Saturday when a downpour started. When the decision to call the game was made more than an hour after the initial rain delay, the Bobcats were 3-1 winners.
One year after eventual MLB draftees Gauntlett Eldemire, Robert Maddox and Jerod Yakubik led the team in many categories, three freshmen have spearheaded the Bobcats’ offense.
As Dorothy famously said in The Wizard of Oz, “There’s no place like home.” For Ohio softball, that phrase rings startlingly true.
The Bobcats continue to face tough competition this spring in preparation for the fall as they travel to Cincinnati tomorrow for the Bearcat Spring Tournament.
For the final time of the 2010-2011 season, and for some, the final time ever for Ohio, the Bobcats will travel to Nashport, Ohio, for the Mid-American Conference Tournament.
A decade after he left the Ohio Hockey bench, Craig McCarthy will be recognized for a career of unprecedented success.
On April 18, 1775, minuteman Paul Revere made his celebrated horseback ride through Massachusetts to warn John Hancock and Samuel Adams that the British were coming. Two days and 236 years later, the Mid-American Conference delivered a different message: The Minutemen are coming.
Increasing temperatures ideally have an inverse effect on the performance of the runners: Their times drop.
Last time the Bobcats’ scoring reached double digits, coach Joe Carbone gave more credit to the wind blowing through Bob Wren Stadium than Ohio’s hitters.
After two difficult weekends, the Bobcats will attempt to pick up some momentum with a solid performance this weekend.
The phrase “good hands” can mean multiple things within the context of football. Some draw the image of the good-hands team, which is responsible for recovering onside kicks. The more commercially minded will recall the Allstate-sponsored net that catches field goals at the west end of Peden Stadium.
Ohio’s revolving door of problems took another spin after its doubleheader against Northern Illinois. This time, the issue wasn’t with the Bobcats’ bats, but with their heads.
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