Illinois series

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The Buckeyes hosted the Illinois Fighting Illini last weekend at Bill Davis Stadium and took 2 of 3.

Bucks lose Game 1 9-2

COLUMBUS, Ohio - The Ohio State baseball team dropped its opener to Illinois, 9-2, Friday night at Nick Swisher Field at Bill Davis Stadium. The Buckeyes fall to 23-13, 7-6 in conference play, while Illinois moves to 24-10, 6-4 in the Big Ten.
Illinois threatened against Ohio State starter Jaron Long in the top of the second. Jordan Parr led off the inning with a single up the middle and, after a fly out to right by Brandon Hohl, stole second and advanced to third when the throw got into center field. However, Long responded by striking out David Kerian looking on a 10-pitch at-bat and got Reid Roper to pop out to short to end the inning.
The Illini then took the lead with a four-run fourth. Michael Hurwitz singled to center to lead off the inning and a walk by Justin Parr put runners on first and second with nobody out. Jordan Parr followed with a sacrifice bunt to advance the runners and Hohl doubled into right-center to plate a pair of runs. Kerian then singled to left to score Hohl and the Illini first baseman advanced to second on the throw home. Roper followed with a triple off the wall in right-center, plating Kerian and giving the Illini the 4-0 lead

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Buckeyes win Game 2

LINCOLN, Neb. - The Ohio State baseball team outlasted Nebraska in 11 innings, winning 6-5 Saturday afternoon in front of 4,076 spectators at Haymarket Park. The Buckeyes improve to 22-11 overall and 6-5 in the Big Ten while Nebraska falls to 14-18 and 8-3 in the Big Ten.
Nebraska took the game?s first lead in the bottom of the second inning as they got three singles off of OSU starter Brad Goldberg to go ahead 1-0.
In the top of the fourth the Buckeyes evened the score up at 1-all. Patrick Porter led off the inning with a base hit and the next hitter, Jacob Bosiokovic, reached on an error on a throw from the Nebraska short stop. After both moving up on a wild pitch from Nebraska starter Aaron Bummer, Troy Kuhn knocked a base hit to right field to score Porter, but Bosiokovic was thrown out at home plate trying to give the Buckeyes the lead.
With two outs in the bottom of the fourth the Huskers got a walk and consecutive singles to retake the lead at 2-1. Nebraska added two more to its lead in the bottom of the fifth to go up 4-1.
Goldberg gave up four runs on seven hits over 4.2 innings before he was replaced by David Fathalikhani. Goldberg walked three and struck out three. Fathalikhani pitched the sixth inning as well, giving up a base hit but then picked off Nebraska?s Chad Christensen to end the inning.


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Buckeyes win Game 3, Series

LINCOLN, Neb. - The Ohio State baseball team held on to beat Nebraska Sunday afternoon at Haymarket Park, 7-4. The Buckeyes take two of three from the Huskers and improve to 7-5 in the Big Ten and 23-11 overall.
Brian King went 7.0 strong innings for the Buckeyes to pick up the win and improve to 5-4. King allowed no runs on three hits and two walks while striking out three.
After a scoreless first inning, the Buckeyes took a 1-0 lead in the top of the second off of Nebraska starting pitcher Tyler King. Jacob Bosiokovic led off with a single and advanced to second on a sacrifice bunt by Greg Solomon. After Troy Kuhn walked, Tim Wetzel hit a ground ball to second base but Nebraska shortstop Wes Erdington made a throwing error attempting to turn the double play and Bosiokovic came into score.
Ryan Cypret reached first to lead off the top of the third after being hit by a pitch and would come around to score and give the Buckeyes a 2-0 advantage following a looping base hit to center by Kirby Pellant and an RBI single to left field by Patrick Porter.

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