Winter Haven Baseball Series

[JCOSU86]

The Buckeyes continue their pre-Big 10 portion of their schedule with a 4 game series in Winter Haven, FL. They are slated to play 4 northern teams: Rhode Island University, Northeastern University, University of Maine and Central Michigan University.

Rhode Island Rams

Ohio State vs Rhode Island, Friday, March 6th @ 3:00 PM

The Rams are 5-2 on the year and are coming off a massive upset of #8 Miami (FL) in Coral Cables last night (March 3rd), 3-0. They are also on a 4 game winning streak. RIU is part of the Atlantic 10 Conference in Baseball, where they were picked to finish 3rd this year by the league's head coaches. Link

Northeastern Huskies

Ohio State vs Northeastern, Saturdayc March 7th @ 12:30 PM

The Huskies are members of the Colonial Athletic Association (CAA). They stand 4-1 on the season (not including a exhibition loss to the Boston Red Sox 14-0). They swept the Big 10's Northwestern Wildcats earlier this month. Northeastern was only picked to finish 10th in the 11 team conference by the conference Head Coaches (Link), so their start is surprising. The Northeastern web site has the game vs the Buckeyes starting at 4:00 PM while the OSU site has the game at 12:30 PM.


Maine Black Bears

Ohio State vs Maine, Saturday, March 7th @ 4:00 PM

The University of Maine Black Bears participate in the America East Conference. They are currently 3-4 on the year and were picked to finish 3rd in the conference by the coaches (Link).


Central Michigan Chippewas

Ohio State vs Central Michigan, Sunday, March 8th @ 12:30 PM

The Central Michigan Chippewas are members of the Midwest Athletic Conference (MAC) and stand 3-4 on the year. CMU was picked to finish 3rd in the Western Division of the MAC by the Coaches Poll (Link).

[brodybuck21]

Alright lets keep this momentum going. Great start!

[LitlBuck]

The Rams are 5-2 on the year and are coming off a massive upset of #8 Miami (FL) in Coral Cables last night (March 3rd), 3-0.

That is a very impressive victory for a northern school to beat Miami this early in the season. Miami always as a very good baseball program. They would be interesting for Ohio State to face the same Rhode Island picture that pitched against Miami.

[buckeyemania11]

Rhode Island looks like a challenging opponent the rest of the teams in this series are kind of blah though

[JCOSU86]

Originally Posted by buckeyemania11

Rhode Island looks like a challenging opponent the rest of the teams in this series are kind of blah though

Northeastern doesn't look like a slouch either.

[buckeyemania11]

from the official site

BASE: Winter Haven up next on Buckeyes' Spring Swing - The Ohio State Buckeyes Official Athletics Site - OhioStateBuckeyes.com

COLUMBUS, Ohio - Nationally ranked and unbeaten Ohio State, 7-0 on the season and riding a wave of confidence and karma, travels to Winter Haven, Fla., this week for four single games against Rhode Island, Northeastern, Maine and Central Michigan.


The games are part of the RussMatt Baseball Central Florida Invitational and all four will be played at Chain of Lakes Field, the former spring training home of the Cleveland Indians, who have relocated their spring training to Phoenix this year.


THE SCHEDULE
Ohio State will play Rhode Island and Northeastern for the first time in baseball, at 3 p.m. Friday and 12:30 p.m. Saturday, respectively before renewing series’ with Maine at 4 p.m. Saturday and Central Michigan at 12:30 p.m. Sunday.

The team will depart Thursday afternoon via commercial airline and return home Sunday evening.

Ohio State probable weekend rotation:
Fri. vs. Rhode Island - LHP Andrew Armstrong (1-0; 3.27)
Sat. vs. Northeastern - RHP Ross Oltorik (0-0; 9.00)
Sat. vs. Maine - RHP Dean Wolosiansky (1-0; 9.90)
Sun. vs. Central Michigan - RHP Alex Wimmers (2-0; 0.77)

NEWS ON THE OPPONENTS


Rhode Island will be one “ram tough” opponent. The team is coming off the biggest win in program history: a 3-0 win at No. 8 Miami Tuesday night as Jr. Eric Smith threw eight shutout innings. The 5-2 Rams also have a win at NC State this year. Team BA is .339 and the ERA is 4.21. Four regulars are hitting over .400: Zoey Angulo is hitting .571 and is followed by Milan Adams (.500), Dan Rhault (.464) and Jeff Cammans (.429). The team has some power, too, with 10 home runs. RHP Tim Boyce (1-0 with a 6.30 ERA and 10 IP with two starts) is expected to go against the Buckeyes.

Northeastern, which lost to Ohio State, 8-3, in 1991 in the only meeting between the two schools, is off to a 4-1 start, including 6-4 and 4-3 wins over Northwestern earlier this week in Winter Haven, Fla. Huskies RF Matt Miller is CAA Rookie of the Week after going 7-14 over the week with a .650 on-base percentage. LHP Ryan Quiqley (0-0; 2.08 ERA; 4.1 IP) is the scheduled starter. Matt Miller (.526) and Mike Tamson (.450) have combined for 19 of the team's 47 hits. Northeastern is hitting .272 as a team with a team ERA of 2.80. The staff has 49 strikeouts and only 17 walks in 45.0 IP.

Maine and Ohio State have also met just once: an 8-7 Black Bear win last year in West Palm Beach. Maine is 3-4 heading into two games against Fairfield before the Ohio State game. The Black Bears have not indicated a starter against Ohio State, but the staff has a 5.82 ERA. Myckie Lugbauer (.448 with 10 RBI) and Danny Menendez (.409 and 5-6 in SBs) lead the team's offense.

Central Michigan, which owns a 3-2 series edge over Ohio State, is 3-4 this season and owns a win over nationally-ranked Wichita State already. Matt Faiman, Scott PHillion and Casey Ingle are all hitting better than .400 to lead the Chippewas. CMU has also not declared a starter for the Ohio State game.

[JCOSU86]

Sat. vs. Northeastern - RHP Ross Oltorik (0-0; 9.00)

That's the walk-on QB from Moeller, I believe?

[Bucky Katt]

OSU leading 5-3 going to the top of the 4th against URI. 2 Buckeye errors have led to 3 unearned runs off of starter Andrew Armstrong.

Live Stats - Rhode Island vs. Ohio State - Baseball

[LitlBuck]

Originally Posted by JCOSU86

That's the walk-on QB from Moeller, I believe?
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you are correct correc what is with the 9.00 ERA

[buckeyemania11]

Ohio State falls for the first time this season 8-6 to Rhode Island

only 1 of Rhode Islands 8 runs were earned..........

[coastalbuck]

It's baseball, come out and win tomorrow. No one wins them all. Still a great start for the guys...

[CleveBucks]

5 errors. Back to old form, or a temporary relapse?

[buckeyemania11]

Ohio State wins game 1 of todays double header 11-8 over Northeastern

no errors in this one

Eric Best picked up the Win (5.1 IP 6 H 3 R 3 ER 1 BB 4 K)

Michael Stephens led the bats going 3/5 with a triple and 4 RBIs
Michael Arp 3/4 2B 2 RBIs
True Freshman Brad Hallberg saw his first action as a buckeye and went 2/3 with 2 RBIs

[JCOSU86]

From the Official Site

WINTER HAVEN, Fla. - Ohio State lost its second game of the season, 10-7, to Maine Saturday in Winter Haven, Fla. Coupled with a win earlier in the day over Northeastern, Ohio State is now 8-2 on the season. Maine evened its record at 5-5.
Against the Black Bears, Ohio State built a 4-1 lead behind a four-run third inning. Matt Streng had an RBI triple, Zach Hurley followed with an RBI double and Justin Miller contributed an RBI double for the big hits of the inning.
Another run in the fourth, on a Ryan Dew run-scoring single, extended the lead to 5-1.

Continued...

[buckeyemania11]

pitching has been wildly inconsistent so far this year, 8-2 is still a excellent start however

lets get CMU tommorow to come out even for the weekend