Box Score Hobart College junior goalie Peter Zonino made 15 saves and scooped up a team-high six ground balls, but 15th-ranked Ohio State University posted a 10-6 ECAC Lacrosse League victory at Jesse Owens Memorial Stadium this afternoon.
 
Zonino stopped all five shots he faced in a scoreless first quarter. Hobart's backstop turned aside the first three shots he faced of the second quarter with Statesmen senior midfielder Jake Silberlicht cracking the scoring column at the 11:25 mark.

 

The Buckeyes pulled even with 5:56 left in the opening half, capitalizing on an illegal procedure penalty against Hobart. Carter Brown scored the extra-man goal, assisted by Jesse King. Logan Schuss and King scored for OSU before the end of the half to send the home team into the break with a 3-1 lead.
 
Ohio State (7-3, 2-2) continued to build on its momentum in the third quarter, again rattling off three straight goals kick-started by an extra-man opportunity. Turner Evans got the man-up goal 4:25 into the half. The Buckeyes added goals by Brown and King to stretch their lead to 6-1 with 8:30 left in the third quarter.
 
Sophomore midfielder Branden Kessler fed junior attackman Jake McHenry to stop the OSU run and make it a 6-2 game. The Buckeyes added two more goals before the close of the third quarter to take a six-goal lead into the final frame.
 
Through the first 45 minutes of the game, Ohio State held a 38-22 advantage in shots, a 31-23 edge in ground balls, and won 9-of-13 faceoffs.
 
Hobart (4-6, 1-3) was able to turn things around in the fourth quarter, holding a 12-4 shot advantage and a 12-10 edge in ground balls while winning 6-of-7 faceoffs. Sophomore midfielders Zach Reed and Taylor Vanderbeek netted consecutive goals to make it an 8-4 game. The Buckeyes countered with two of their own less than a minute apart, but Reed and Kessler scored back-to-back to cut it to 10-6 with 4:25 remaining. Down the stretch, the Statesmen hit a post and Buckeye goalie Scott Spencer made two saves to keep the visitor's at bay.
 
Reed (2-0), Kessler (1-1) and junior attackman Cam Stone (0-2) paced the Hobart offense with two points apiece. Stone now has a team-high 23 assists, tied for the sixth most in a season by a Division I Statesman. Senior defenseman Reid Rosello and junior attackman Alex Love shared team-high honors with three caused turnovers apiece. Rosello has a team-high 19 caused turnovers, one off his own Hobart season record set just last year. Sophomore midfielder Gryphin Kelly was 9-of-16 at the X with four ground balls.
 
Schuss finished with a goal and four assists for the Buckeyes with Brown adding three goals and an assist. King had two goals and an assist and Evans scored twice. Trey Wilkes, who was eighth in the nation in faceoff percentage (.574), was 10-of-20 on faceoffs and had a game-high seven ground balls. Defenseman Joe Meurer recorded a game-high four caused turnovers and held Love scoreless for the first time since March 6, 2012.

Hobart will be back in action on Saturday, April 13, at Bellarmine. The opening faceoff is slated for 1 p.m.