Ohio State Travels to Illinois This Weekend

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COLUMBUS, Ohio – Ohio State’s five-game roadtrip concludes this weekend because it heads to Champaign, In poor health. for a three-game sequence at Illinois. Motion will get underway on Friday night with a 6 p.m. (ET) sport, and continues on Saturday (2 p.m. ET) earlier than concluding on Sunday (1 p.m. ET).

The entire motion this weekend could be seen on BTN+. Followers may comply with stay stats, which can be found on the schedule web page of OhioStateBuckeyes.com. Twitter updates could be discovered at @OhioStateSB.

The Fundamentals
Ohio State at Illinois // Friday, April 14 // 6 p.m. ET // Eichelberger Discipline; Champaign, In poor health.
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Ohio State at Illinois // Saturday, April 15 // 2 p.m. ET // Eichelberger Discipline; Champaign, In poor health.
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Ohio State at Illinois // Sunday, April 16 // 1 p.m. ET // Eichelberger Discipline; Champaign, In poor health.
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Briefly on the Buckeyes

• Winners of 4 consecutive video games, Ohio State is 25-13 total and 6-5 within the Huge Ten getting into motion this weekend.
• The Buckeyes have the Huge Ten’s third-best total batting common, checking in at .305 with six starters who’re at .300 or increased.
• That group is led by sophomore Melina Wilkison, who ranks within the high 10 within the convention in common (.398), RBI (33), slugging proportion (.758), doubles (10) and residential runs (eight).
• Kaitlyn Farley, a sophomore who final weekend moved into the leadoff spot, hits .236 and has pushed in 23 runs.
• One other sophomore, Kami Kortokrax, has began all 38 video games this season at shortstop and is batting .325 with good energy numbers – she has 17 further base hits, together with a team-high 12 doubles.
• Within the circle, junior Allison Smith is 12-8 on the season with a 2.82 ERA and 149 strikeouts in 131.1 innings.
• Classmate Emily Ruck has been victorious in her final three begins to enhance her file to 8-5. She has a 3.46 ERA with eight full video games.

Scouting Illinois

• The Illini are 23-18 on the season and 2-9 in Huge Ten play following a 6-1 loss at No. 22 Northwestern on Wednesday afternoon.
• Illinois began out Huge Ten play with three losses to Rutgers earlier than shedding two of three at Wisconsin and Michigan.
• Its midweek sequence vs. Northwestern was break up into single video games over the course of two weeks, each of which have been wins for the Wildcats.
• Kelly Ryono is Illinois’ main in almost each main offensive class, together with common (.352), dwelling runs (eight), RBI (39), and on-base proportion (.413).
• Three pitchers have seen the vast majority of the innings to Illinois: Sydney Sickels (2.72 ERA), Tori McQueen (3.05 ERA) and Lauren Wiles (3.91 ERA).

Historical past vs. Illinois

• Whereas Ohio State and Illinois didn’t play through the common season final 12 months, they did meet within the quarterfinal spherical of the Huge Ten Event.
• The Buckeyes received that sport, 5-0, and total have received 4 of the final 5 conferences between the 2 groups.
• Since 2013, Ohio State has a 9-5 file in opposition to Illinois. The final time the 2 groups met in Champaign, the Buckeyes received three of 4 video games through the 2021 Huge Ten-only season.

Buckeye This and That

• Senior Sam Hackenbracht stays one of many Huge Ten’s hottest hitters. In 11 convention video games, she’s batting .417 with an OPS of 1.245.
• That features 12 RBI, three dwelling runs and 5 doubles.
• In Tuesday’s doubleheader sweep of Illinois, senior Meggie Otte had a bases-clearing three-RBI double to spark a 9-5 win within the first sport. It was the fifteenth time in 30 bases-loaded at-bats that the Buckeyes have come away with a success.
• Otte is 2 RBI away from 100 in her profession. The fifth-year senior, who has performed in 191 profession video games, has already surpassed 100 profession hits.
• Just one staff within the Huge Ten – Penn State – has caught out fewer instances than Ohio State (140).
• 4 gamers have improved their respective batting averages by 40 or extra factors from final season: Mariah Rodriguez (.091 to .301 – +210), Kaitlyn Farley (.265 to .326 – +61), Melina Wilkison (.342 to .398 – +56) and Kami Kortokrax (.283 to .325 – +42).