Fischer’s Big Day Powers Buckeyes Past Illinois 6-1

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COLUMBUS, Ohio – After its greatest offensive recreation of the season on Thursday evening, No. 20 Ohio State stored the scoring happening Sunday, dominating Illinois in a 6-1 victory.

That retains the Buckeyes unbeaten of their final seven matches and proper within the thick of the Large Ten championship race. Ohio State is now 10-2-3 total and 5-1-2 in Large Ten play.

For the second consecutive recreation, a Buckeye recorded a hat trick as Kayla Fischer continued her torrid streak with three targets. She additionally added an help within the recreation. Sophomore Kailyn Dudukovich adopted her hat trick on Thursday with one other objective on Sunday.

The way it Occurred

The Buckeyes received on the board within the 15^th minute as Kine Flotre performed a ravishing by way of ball as much as Fischer. She one-touched the ball throughout the field to Dudukovich who slid a shot house to place the Buckeyes in entrance 1-0.

Illinois then evened the rating with a protracted shot towards the run of play within the 21^st minute. Fischer then gave the Buckeyes the lead again for good as she took a ball from close to midfield and dribbled to the highest of the field and banged a shot over the leaping Illinois keeper.

Main 2-1 on the break, the Buckeyes broke the sport open with three targets within the first seven minutes of the second half. Fischer scored her second objective off a go from Peyton McNamara within the 47 minute after which :59 seconds later, Emma Sears took a ball down the appropriate facet and earlier than her shot, an Illinois defender deflected the ball into the web.

With Illinois on its heels, Fischer accomplished the hat trick within the 53^rd minute as she hit house a rebound off an exquisite shot by Sears and the Buckeyes had been in entrance 5-1. Junior Christin Baumbick capped the scoring on the 73-minute mark, as she stole a go and hit one other lovely lengthy strike that beat the Illini keeper.

Notes

• Kayla Fischer recorded the primary hat trick of her profession and the 19^th in program historical past
• Fischer has scored a objective in every of the final 5 matches, the longest streak of her profession. She now has eight targets on the season with seven within the final 5 video games
• This was the second consecutive recreation with a hat trick, marking the primary time in program historical past that has occurred
• Kailyn Dudukovich scored her fourth objective within the final two video games and now has seven targets on the yr. That matches her objective complete from final season
• Christin Baumbick recorded her first objective of the season and the second of her profession
• Freshman keeper Molly Pritchard performed for the complete 90 minutes in web for the primary time in her profession
• The 13 targets within the final two video games are essentially the most in back-to-back video games, exterior the 14-goal outburst towards Robert Morris in 1995
• The Buckeyes are actually unbeaten of their final seven matches with 5 wins and a pair of attracts
• The seven-match unbeaten streak is the longest for the reason that 2012 season when the workforce had 9 wins and two attracts within the last 11 video games of that season
• Ohio State has outscored their opponents throughout this seven-match unbeaten streak 24-3
• The Buckeyes now lead the all-time collection with Illinois 13-9-4 and are unbeaten towards the Combating Illini within the final six conferences.

Up Subsequent

Ohio State returns house to host a pair of matches within the last week of the common season. The primary can be on Thursday evening towards Michigan State (7 p.m. on BTN+) and the second can be on Sunday afternoon towards Northwestern (2 p.m. on BTN+).

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