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Conner Pohl and freshman
Seth Lonsway,
TJ Brock all took home third team honors.
For Pohl, this was his second All-Big Ten Team award as he also claimed third team honors in 2018. This season, Pohl has hit a career-high 13 home runs which was second in the conference coming into the final weekend. He is hitting .266 this season and has reached base in all but four of the 41 games. The Arcanum, Ohio native is also leading the team with 35 runs batted in.
Kern has been absolutely stellar in his first season. In addition to his second team honor, he was also named to the All-Freshman Team. Kern burst on to the scene with a five-hit game in his collegiate debut and has hardly slowed. The Archbold, Ohio native is hitting a team-high .327 on the year and has collected 51 hits. Kern has 14 multi-hit games and has had sperate hitting streaks of eight and seven games this season. He has also committed just one error in 85 chances in centerfield.
BLOOMINGTON, Ind. – Ohio State freshman Isaiah Coupet made his first collegiate start on Monday and pitched really well in a season-high 3.1 innings. Patrick Murphy followed him on the mound with a career-high 4.0 innings of relief. But the Buckeye offense wasn’t able to solve the Indiana hurlers as Ohio State dropped it road finale 2-0.
The Buckeyes (20-19) will now return home to host Northwestern in the final series of the season this weekend at Bill Davis Stadium. Friday and Saturday night’s games will be on BTN.
Coupet admitted to a few butterflies prior to his first start but he didn’t any nerves on the mound. The Flossmoor, Ill., native set the first nine Hoosiers down in order, seven via the punchout. He ran into a little trouble in the top of the fourth at IU loaded the bases with no outs, but Murphy came on and limited the damage to just one run. Coupet finished the night allowing just the one on two hits with seven Ks and zero walks.
Mark Znidar comes to Press Pros Magazine after 33 ½ years at The Columbus Dispatch. From 1996 until September 2018, he staffed high school sports, Ohio colleges that included the Mid-American Conference, Ohio State’s upcoming opponents in football and Ohio State baseball. In the previous three seasons he covered the Columbus Clippers triple-A baseball team.
His other beats were Ohio State basketball (1985-88), Clippers (1985-86 and 1989-93), Cincinnati Bengals (1993-95) and NASCAR (1994-2008). He subbed on the Columbus Blue Jackets and Ohio State women’s basketball beats.
In March 2017, Znidar was inducted into the Ohio Prep Sportswriters Association Hall of Fame.
Znidar was born in Cleveland and raised in Richmond Heights. He graduated from Cleveland St. Joseph High School and the University of Dayton. He also worked for The Atlantic City Press, Lake County News-Herald and Baltimore News-American.
BLOOMINGTON, Ind. – Ohio State junior Garrett Burhenn delivered his best performance of the season, and maybe his career, just when the Buckeyes needed it. After a game one loss to Nebraska, Burhenn shut Indiana down in a 3-1 complete game victory to give the Buckeyes a split on Saturday in Bloomington.
OSU (20-18) lost 9-0 in game one and needed some sort of shot in the arm. Burhenn certainly gave them that, and then some. The Indianapolis native turned in his first career complete game, going all nine innings and allowing just one run on seven hits while striking out a season-high 10 batters. What was perhaps the most eye-popping stat of the game was that Burhenn never got to a three-ball count on any hitter.