Around The Oval: Ohio State Men’s Golf Advances to NCAA Championship Match Play, and Men’s and Women’s Track and Field Sends Athletes to NCAA Championships in Oregon

By Chase Brown on May 28, 2024 at 12:50 pm
Adam Wallin
Ohio State Dept. of Athletics
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Surprise!

Two weeks ago, the 2024 Around The Oval series ended. However, plans changed, as plans often do, and Eleven Warriors’ fastbreak coverage of Ohio State Olympic sports has returned for one week and one week only – unless plans change, of course.

In this release of ATO, we look at recent news and notes from men's golf, men's and women's track and field, men's and women's tennis and baseball.

Men's Golf

Ohio State is one of the best teams in golf.

With a seventh-place finish at the NCAA Championship, Ohio State advanced to match play in the postseason tournament for the first time since 2011. The Buckeyes will face No. 2-seeded Vanderbilt in the quarterfinals on Tuesday. The teams teed off at Omni La Costa in Carlsbad, California, around 10:40 a.m.

Ohio State's seventh-place finish at the NCAA Championship was due, in large part, to Adam Wallin's stellar individual performance. The tournament's leader after 54 holes, Wallin shot a 4-over 76 on Monday and finished tied for eighth. He became the first Buckeye to finish in the top 10 at the NCAA Championship since Chris Wollmann took fourth in 1995.

Behind Wallin, Neal Shipley (T35) and Jackson Chandler (T42) finished in the top 50 with scores of 7-over and 8-over. Maxwell Moldovan (T59) and Tyler Sabo (80) were the remaining Buckeyes to compete at the NCAA Championship, with the former shooting 12-over and the latter 23-over.

The winner of Ohio State and Vanderbilt's match will face the winner of Virginia and North Carolina in the semifinals Tuesday afternoon. The championship match is set for Wednesday afternoon. The Golf Channel will televise quarterfinal matches on Tuesday from 1 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. and semifinal matches from 6 p.m. to 10 p.m.

Track and Field

Twelve track and field Buckeyes, including 10 from the women's team and two from the men's team, will compete for the NCAA Championships in Eugene, Oregon, next week.

On the women's side, Aniya Mosley, Leah Bertrand, Nya Bussey, Macia Sev, Fatouma Conde, Faith Bender, Chanler Robinson, Columba Effong, Bryannia Murphy and Janela Spencer qualified for the NCAA Championships while competing at the NCAA East First Round. Hayden Tobias and Reign Winston also punched their tickets on the men's side.

Mosley broke the Ohio State program record in the 800m, running the event in 2:01.52 to take sixth overall. Bertrand and Bussey qualified in the 100m with 11.09-second and 11.26-second sprints to finish ninth and 12th overall. The duo also performed in the 4x100m with Sey and Conde, and the four runners completed the event in 43.09 seconds to win the event. The Buckeyes' 4x400m team of Conde, Robinson, Effong and Murphy qualified for the next round with a season-best time of 3:29.83. Bender advanced to the championships in the discus throw of 57.39 meters, and Spencer qualified in the 100m hurdles with a time of 13.15 seconds.

Tobias advanced to the quarterfinals in the shot put with a throw of 19.14 meters to finish eighth in the event. Winston earned a spot at nationals when he cleared a 2.17-meter high jump and finished sixth in his competition.

The NCAA Championships will be held on June 5 and June 7 at the University of Oregon's Hayward Field. ESPNU will broadcast the quarterfinals and semifinals on June 5, while ESPN2 will broadcast the championship events on June 7.

Tennis

While the Ohio State men's tennis team fell to TCU in the NCAA Tournament quarterfinals, individual Buckeyes still had their chance to win trophies last week. Robert Cash and JJ Tracy did that on Saturday, capturing the NCAA Doubles Championship with a three-set win over Florida State's Antoine Cornut-Chauvinc and Joshua Dous Karpenschif.

In addition to the doubles title, Tracy had the deepest run in the NCAA Singles Championship, reaching the quarterfinals and earning All-American honors. Jack Anthrop also found success as an individual, advancing to the second round and collecting the second All-American honors of his career. Ohio State's other singles representatives were Kingsley and Boulais. The former suffered an upset in the first round and the latter lost in the second round.

Two members of the Ohio State women's team, Luciana Perry and Irina Cantos Siemers, also competed in the NCAA Singles Championship last week. Both Buckeyes advanced to the quarterfinals and earned All-American honors.

Baseball

As the No. 7 seed in the Big Ten Tournament, the Buckeyes looked hot when they defeated No. 2-seeded Nebraska, 15-2 (7 innings), on May 21.

However, as Ohio State's weekend continued in Omaha, the Buckeyes' temperature cooled. The team suffered losses to Indiana on Thursday and Nebraska on Friday. Both of those teams advanced to the conference semifinals, and the Cornhuskers went on to defeat Penn State in the title game to win their first-ever Big Ten Tournament championship.

Ohio State ended the 2024 season with a 29-26 regular-season record, including a 12-12 mark in Big Ten competition. The Buckeyes' Big Ten Tournament appearance was the program's first since 2019, the year former head coach Greg Beals and his team caught fire and won the title.

In current head coach Bill Mosiello's first two seasons as Ohio State's skipper, the Buckeyes are 60-51 overall with a 21-27 record in the Big Ten.

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