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The Japanese Student Organization hosted the annual Spring Festival on Sunday.

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The Ohio State College of Engineering hosted its arcadethemed robot competition Saturday.

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Noticing a lack of campus witchcraft, a student decided to start a Witches and Witchcraft club.

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Reinventing therapy for black women AKAYLA GARDNER Lantern reporter gardner.1199@osu.edu

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Carla Eugene, a senior staff therapist, facilitates a therapy group for undergraduate black women called Colorful Women.

When Gabrielle Hicks transferred to Ohio State in 2017, she knew she made the right choice, but she felt isolated without a community she could identify with during difficult life circumstances.

She was studying to become a school psychologist but couldn’t bring herself to seek counseling.

“It was just weird for me to do it for myself; I totally advocated for other people to do it, but doing it for myself was hard and also thinking in my mind that I wasn’t thick enough,” Hicks, a doctorate student in educational studies, said.

She said she called Counseling and Consultation Service and was recommended to Colorful Women — a therapy group for black women that has both undergraduate and graduate groups. It took her awhile before she responded to the invitation to join the group.

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MakerX ties community and tech together TATYANA WOODALL Lantern reporter woodall.52@osu.edu In an effort to celebrate the latest strides in technology, the second annual MakerX tech festival was held Saturday at the Ohio Expo Center, featuring more than 80 exhibits from across the region — including many from Ohio State.

Supported entirely by volunteers, the event covered everything from drone races and inventive cosplay to digital art and robotics, giving participants a chance to discover this year’s latest inventions.

As one of many Ohio State exhibitions present, the Department of Dance showcased its project called LabanLens, an augmented reality dance application.

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technology is that you’re in a whole world when you’re in here, and you’re also in the [real] world,” Hannah Kosstrin, professor of dance and co-creator of LabanLens, said. “We are excited for people to know a little bit more what we’re doing with LabanLens and the way that we and the department are connecting art and technology.”

Chris Summers, media manager for the Department of Dance and LabanLens co-creator, called the project an “untethered experience.”

“Instead of looking down at your phone or looking at a computer screen, you’re actually able to integrate the tech and the interface with the real world,” Summers said. “You can live in the flesh and interact with tech in the flesh.”

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The Maker X tech festival, featuring many groups from Ohio State, was held at the Ohio Expo Center this weekend.

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The Japanese Student Organization hosted its 14th annual Spring festival, an afternoon dedicated to the celebration of spring and the Japanese new year.

MOMINA TASHFEEN Lantern reporter tashfeen.6@osu.edu On Sunday, the Japanese Student Organization hosted its 14th annual Spring Festival, celebrating the departure of winter and the arrival of spring.

The organization’s biggest event of the year brought in families and students to celebrate the Japanese culture with an afternoon of traditional and modern dances, classical Japanese music, band performances and more.

The event consisted of a blend of performances and interactive activities such as kimono fittings, origami, interactive tea ceremonies and Japanese games.

Kanon Kawashima, vice president of JSO, said spring signifies a joyous time in Japanese culture.

“Cherry blossoms are very common in Japan, and they’re usually blooming in April,” Kawashima, a third-year in finance, said. “The bloom of the new year is kind of a representation of why we do a Spring Festival in April.”

This year is the last Heisei Spring, Kyuzo Kelly, the event coordinator and co-host of the afternoon, said. The Heisei era is the name of the current Japanese era that ends April 30. With the new era approaching, people are expecting change, he said.

“As an organization we want to bring in a lot of new stuff too, to reflect that change,” Kelly, a second-year in computer and infor-

mation science, said.

Kelly, who will be the president of JSO next year, said the organization was founded to preserve and showcase new, old and popular Japanese culture, food, games and music. Other events they host include sushi and movie nights in an attempt to establish a community and friend groups on campus, he said.

“Because [the Spring Festival] is our last and biggest event, it’s a great way for us to tie everything together and also be able to bring the local community together,” Kawashima said. “Everything we did in the past has kind of built up to the Spring Festival.”

At every Spring Festival, proceeds made go back into a selected cause, Kawashima

said, with this year’s helping out survivors of the 2011 Tohoku earthquake.

“In 2011 there was a massive earthquake in Japan on March 11,” Kelly said. “Many, many people died. It also caused the nuclear reactor disaster and a lot of people were affected by that.”

The donations will fund projects such as restructuring buildings and providing homes and food to communities in need within Japan, Kawashima said.

“We change our donations every year; last year it was toward Red Cross,” Kawashima said. “But this year we wanted to focus more on what we could give back to the Japanese community.”

College of Engineering hosts 25th annual robot competition OLIVIA COLLIGNON Lantern reporter collignon.2@osu.edu A future where robots perform daily tasks for people might still be a little ways off, but a glimpse into that world came to campus over the weekend.

The Ohio State College of Engineering hosted its 25th annual robot competition, Fundamentals of Engineering for Honors Robot Competition, Saturday at the RPAC, which featured 253 firstyear engineering students’ hand-

made robots.

The yearly competition gives first-year engineering students a chance to showcase their cornerstone design projects: autonomous robots designed to perform specific tasks for the competition all on its own. Once the students set down their robot, they no longer have control over what it does.

“We had about 71 days to build a robot from scratch,” Yang Huang, a first-year in computer science, said. “It’s basically like an obstacle course.”

Each year, the competition has

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The College of Engineering held its 25th annual robotics competition on Saturday at the RPAC.

a different theme and course; this year was centered around arcade-era games.

The arcade-themed competition went from noon to 6 p.m. and included a round-robin competition, single elimination tournament and awards presentation.

This year’s course was designed to challenge teams to prepare an arcade for a day of business and tasked robots with arcade-themed objectives.

“It has to deposit a token into a coin slot, push a red or blue button depending on what color light is shown, move a foosball slider, flip a lever and hit another button,” Huang said.

Huang and his team named their robot Kermit, as their class received the arcade-themed title of Frogger, an arcade game invented by Konami in 1981.

Aside from the fun theme, Alex Jacobs, a third-year in computer science and volunteer for the competition, said the robot competition brings a sense of pride to the engineering community.

“I’d say this is the most unique thing at OSU,” Jacobs said.

“There’s no class like this that you can do.”

Jacobs said the robot competition also provides engineering students with the knowledge to succeed in the real-life engineer-

ing world.

“You’re on a team; you have checkpoints you have to meet, and you have a lot of constraints you have to go through,” Jacobs said. “It’s like a real-life project.

And it’s really fun.”

At the end of the competition, small scholarships funded by corporate sponsors were awarded to winners in a variety of categories including consistency, head-tohead performance, innovation, engineering, aesthetics, documentation and gracious professionalism.

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Kosstrin said she can see how the device could have a focus in health and medical sciences, and said she hopes the expo can help encourage collaboration and development for LabanLens.

The expo featured exhibits ranging from COSI to numerous entre-

“We are excited for people to know a little bit more what we’re doing with LabanLens and the way that we and the department are connecting art and technology.”

HANNAH KOSSTRIN Professor of dance and co-creator of LabanLens

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The Maker X tech festival is supported entirely by volunteers and aims to bring the community and tech together.

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hold my own stigma because it took me so long to reach out.”

Hicks joined the Colorful Women therapy group for graduate students in January 2018 and finally found a community of support.

“We all talked about wanting to build community,” Hicks said. “Some of us are the only black woman or black student in our program.”

Hicks said the group reads through each other’s dissertations and sends messages of encouragement on GroupMe throughout the week. One group member connected Hicks to the Black Graduate and Professional Caucus — a student organization that promotes academic, cultural, service and social programs for the university — where she formed many other friendships.

Hicks said she had social anxiety, but when her friend from her Colorful Women group saw her at a caucus meeting, she took her hand and introduced her to people.

“I needed someone else to be able to speak to those things,” Hicks said. “The group has been that for me, like a mirror but also a positive response to a lot of the negativity I was exhibiting by myself.”

These are people she said she’ll remain friends with long after she graduates.

Carla Eugene, clinical therapist and undergraduate facilitator for Colorful Women, said the group provides a space for black women to be themselves.

Eugene said there is no other place where her students could go to talk about and heal from their mental health disorders.

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“The black community is very strong on togetherness and being able to identify with each other and being a collective group, so knowing that they don’t have to be individu-

“The black community is very strong on togetherness and being able to identify with each other and being a collective group, so knowing that they don’t have to be individualistic.”

CARLA EUGENE Clinical therapist and undergraduate facilitator for Colorful Women

preneurship programs, as well as a robot competition and free swordplay lessons for younger visitors.

One inventor, Robert Schorr, spoke about his own contributions to local schools through SyVu, a universal smartphone adapter that will help improve classroom interaction and save valuable resources.

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screening process where they meet with group facilitators to see if they are a good fit based on their personalities and a brief mental health assessment. “[Black women] are women who come from a background of being superwoman. We have to work twice as hard. Women have the expectation of showing up at all times,” Eugene said.

The group talks about childhood experiences, drug and alcohol use, medication, sexual assault, dating and stigma in the black community about seeking therapy, Eugene said, and that the best groups are the ones where the learning experience comes from one another.

Eugene said her parents were always open with her and she never felt like she couldn’t talk about her mental health, but she knows other people don’t have that support so she strives to create that space.

“There’s something about when black women get there, something about when women get together period,” Eugene said. “That the fire that goes through us.”

alistic,” Eugene said. “They can be in a collective space and share experiences and grow from them.”

Potential group members go through a

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smartphones universally to all microscopes, telescopes and binoculars, but for Ohio schools, that’s a huge impact,” Schorr said. “It’s a great tool for all teachers that I was happy to supply all over the U.S. and globally.”

Many displays promoted a hands-on experience, and student-led projects from Ohio State were no exception.

In the realm of robotics, Benji Justice, president of the underwater robotics team and fourth-year in electrical and computer engineering, said his goal for the event and his team was to show the Columbus area what Ohio State’s engineers are capable of.

After joining the club as a freshman, Justice said gaining the skills that led him to present at MakerX should be invaluable to all undergraduate students.

“The majority of what I’ve learned in school has come out of this club, and it’s a great application of what I’ve learned in the classroom,” Justice said. “I encourage other students to get involved with something that’s a great application of your skills, and you make a lot of great friends in the process.”

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Witches and Witchcraft hosts first meeting ASHLEY KIMMEL Lantern reporter kimmel.103@osu.edu Friday’s new moon was just another astrological phase for some students. But to others, it marked the beginning of a new community.

Witches and Witchcraft, a new student organization dedicated to providing a space for people to talk and learn about the many different aspects of witches and witchcraft, met for the first time Friday at the Labyrinth Garden to discuss plans as Ohio State’s first Pagan club, Angelina Puerto, founder and president of the club, said.

Puerto, a third-year in sustainable plant systems, said she plans to discuss topics such as well-known witches and historical events, as well as work through a number of practices like rituals, tarot readings, bone throwing, casting spells and using crystals.

“I really want to let people know that witchcraft and witches are not the bad stigma that they all get,” Puerto said.

Puerto said she got the idea to start the club in January when she was unable to find anything on campus involving witchcraft.

“With a school of 60,000 kids, for every 10 that think I’m crazy, I know there’s one at least that wants to learn more about it,” Puerto said.

Though she has only been practicing witchcraft for a year, Puerto said she remembers feeling a strong connection with animals and nature since childhood.

Hannah Rodas, a club member and a

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Members of Witches and Witchcraft during their first club meeting on April 5. third-year in human development and family sciences, said she was introduced to witchcraft when she met Puerto during her first semester at Ohio State and she realized the two had a lot in common.

Rodas said her role in witchcraft comes from her practice in meditation, something she described as a tool that can improve a person’s mindset and perception.

She said her goal in the group is to teach meditation.

“Witchcraft is more about getting to know yourself better and getting to under-

stand the kind of power that you possess,” Rodas said.

Rodas said she is eager to see the kind of community the club can develop because witchcraft is accepting and requires an open mind.

“Everybody needs to be able to define their own spirituality in one way or another and find a practice that works for them, and I think with the craft specifically, that allows that,” Rodas said.

Professor recommends students monitor cholesterol now MICHAEL CARMODY Lantern reporter carmody.36@osu.edu College is a time when health can easily slip students’ minds. However, Michael Wesley Milks, cardiologist and assistant professor of clinical medicine at the Wexner Medical Center, conducted a study on ways to lower cholesterol and found that people as young as 18 should start taking this into consideration.

According to his research, high cholesterol is a top risk factor when it comes to Atherosclerotic Cardiovascular Disease, the buildup of cholesterol and fats on the artery walls. And when it comes to heart

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health and diseases, all people are affected regardless of age, Milks said.

“There are universal screenings for children at age 9 to 11 years, then for young adults age 17 to 21 years. If you’re hitting the college age, it’s time for that general cholesterol screening,” Milks said.

Cholesterol can essentially be categorized into low-density lipoprotein — the “bad” cholesterol — or high-density lipoprotein, which is considered “good,” Milks said. High-density lipoproteins help benefit the body in other ways, while low-density lipoproteins aren’t essential to bodily function.

“Cholesterol is a precursor to certain hormones and is used in cell membranes

and is an essential compound,” Milks said.

“The sort of pre-eminent ‘bad’ cholesterol — LDL — we think of as excess cholesterol that just contributes to atherosclerotic disease, humans can do well without the LDL.” Margie Hevezi, ambulatory care specialty pharmacist at the Wexner, explained how young adults should begin to not only monitor their cholesterol through screenings, but also be fully aware of their family medical history.

“In our early adult lives at the age of 20, every four to six years you should get your cholesterol checked,” Hevezi said. “One of the most important things for college

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Fashion is on the forecast all week as the Ohio State Fashion Production Association brings fashion week to campus.

Each day from Monday through Saturday, FPA will hold fashion-related events for students and the community. The organization is also using this week to market its 27th-annual FPA fashion show Saturday.

“We wanted to use fashion week as a tool to get people to come in and interact with our organization, and also bring awareness to our fashion show,” Josh Jackson, a fourth-year in marketing and finance and co-president of FPA, said. “Every day is a different event that leads up to the show.”

“We wanted to use fashion week as a tool to get people to come in and interact with our organization, and also bring awareness to our fashion show.”

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To kick off the week, the organization hosted a meet-up at Polaris Fashion Mall in the Madewell store and J. Crew. Jackson said this event would be beneficial because the organization was being taken off campus in order to connect with a broader audience.

Tuesday, the organization will put on a denim deconstruction class where participants can bring in old denim and create a new clothing item. This event follows this year’s fashion show theme, “NEXT.” “With the ‘NEXT’ theme, we’re following what’s going to happen next in fashion, so with the denim deconstruction event, we play with the idea that in the future, we’re going to be reusing materials to create new clothes,” Jackson said.

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Master’s student presents her thesis project in the Department of Dance Spring Concert NAOMI BAKER Lantern reporter baker.2517@osu.edu After years of studying dance as an undergraduate student at Temple University and running a dance studio called RealLivePeople in Philadelphia, Gina Hoch-Stall realized contemporary dance is not something the average person understands.

This realization was the inspiration behind Hoch-Stall’s thesis project that was showcased in the Department of Dance Spring Concert this past weekend. In her performance, “PLAY,” Hoch-Stall aimed to bridge a gap between dancers and the rest of the community by giving the audience a look into the process that ensues while dancers create their work.

Hoch-Stall, a third-year master’s student in dance, said she believes it’s her purpose to try to bring understanding to the nondancing community as a dancer.

“Part of my work as a choreographer is to find ways for unaffiliated audience members to see the kind of work that I do, and feel like they understand what’s going on rather than thinking, ‘Wow, they are really good dancers, but I don’t understand what’s going on,’ which is often a response to contemporary dance,” Hoch-Stall said.

To accomplish this, Hoch-Stall said she paid a lot of attention to the process of choreographing and creating her performance so she could showcase it through her performance.

This concept was communicated by including elements of theater, such as audience interaction, dialogue and improvisa-

tion, Hoch-Stall said.

Hoch-Stall said she started working on her 20-minute performance in August, but believes the piece finally came together in the weeks leading up to the show.

Putting the dance together required time to allow the dancers to become familiar with one another, Emily Craver, one of Hoch-Stall’s dancers, said.

“Since there’s a lot of improvisation throughout the piece, we had to take a lot of time to get comfortable with one another to the point where we’re able to trust each other, and that lets us become more vulnerable on stage,” Craver, a first-year master’s student in dance, said.

Because improvisation was a key element of the performance, even the dancers weren’t aware of exactly what would happen on stage. Craver said she thought this element of the unknown was exciting and COURTESY OF LAURA DEANGELIS allowed the dancers to play off the feedGina Hoch-Stall brought her artistic vision to life with her thesis project, “PLAY,” at back they received from each other, the the Department of Dance spring concert last weekend. music and the audience.

While there were many takeaways from CHOLESTEROL FROM 4 her performance, Hoch-Stall said she students to know is what is their family’s high cholesterol later leading on to heart hopes the piece painted a bigger picture for medical history. High cholesterol can run events is decreasing,” Hevezi said. the audience. in the family as well.”

Aside from a healthy diet, Hevezi said “What’s unfolding on stage is maybe not Hevezi said incorporating a diet with the dedicating only 30 to 60 minutes a day to so separate or different from the audience’s correct amount of nutrition sooner rather physical activity is just as important in an existence as people in the world,” Hoch- than later reduces the risk of having heart effort to help your heart stay healthy.

Stall said. “Yes, we are dancers, and we problems at an older age.

Milks said his No. 1 recommendation to have this particular way of being, but we’re The key to live a long and quality life, those concerned with their health is to have also people.”

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event. The organization will be supporting the USG sustainability fashion show. FPA faculty adviser, Nancy Rudd, said that she likes seeing partnerships with other organizations in this year’s fashion week.

“We like to partner with other groups on campus to increase the visibility and presence of both groups on campus,” Rudd said.

Thursday’s event will feature a panel of industry professionals, both in design and merchandising, who will come to campus to talk about what is happening in the fashion world.

Rudd said this will give students and participants the opportunity to see what they can expect once they leave school and begin to work in the fashion industry.

Being that this is the second fashion week put on by FPA, the organization learned from the past year’s successes to plan for this year. Rudd said Friday’s event,

the Fashion Market, was worth bringing back.

“Last year we did the Fashion Market where we had vendors come and set up tables with their material, and students and the community could shop around,” Rudd said. “This was a big success last year, and it really helped support local artists in the community, so we thought we’d try that again.”

Jackson said he hopes the events will bring more community interest to the organization for future years.

“I’m excited to see it succeed this year and help us grow as an organization,” Jackson said.

The fashion show will take place on Saturday in the Ohio Union at 6:30 p.m. More information about all of this week’s events can be found on the organization’s Instagram page, @fpaatosu.

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Ohio State takes on Penn State in doubleheader Tuesday WEIYU TONG Lantern reporter tong.313@osu.edu After winning two of three games against Rutgers at home this past weekend, the Ohio State softball team (2311, 7-2 Big Ten) is on the road again, heading to State College, Pennsylvania, to take on Penn State (19-20, 3-6 Big Ten).

Despite the road trip, the Buckeyes come into the twogame set against the Nittany Lions with the hot hand, winning eight of their past 10 games dating back to March 22.

On the other hand, Penn State has struggled of late, losing six of its past eight games. However, the Nittany Lions returned to the win column Saturday with a 7-4 win against Purdue.

Ohio State head coach Kelly Kovach Schoenly said Penn State has shown improvement, especially in its recent win against the Boilermakers.

“They have better pitchers this year. There are some new people. They are doing a good job,” Schoenly said. “In general, between two of us, this is always a competitive series.”

In the past three seasons, Ohio State has won five of its six total matchups against Penn State.

But this season, the Nittany Lions have talented freshmen that the Buckeyes have not seen.

Freshman infielder Chelsea Bisi is No. 2 on Penn State with a .356 average, recording a team-leading 24 RBI with nine home runs, tied for the team lead. Freshman outfielder Melina Livingston leads the team with a .364 average.

On the mound, freshman pitcher Kylee Lingenfelter has a team-best 2.28 ERA with 45 strikeouts in 58.1 innings of work.

Penn State senior outfielder Toni Polk is also performing well, hitting nine home runs with a team-high 31 runs scored.

On Sunday, Ohio State showed off its offensive ability,

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Ohio State senior shortstop Lilli Piper (22) celebrates after coming into home safely in a game against Indiana on March 24 at Buckeye Field. Ohio State won 2-0.

blanking Rutgers 8-0 in five innings. Freshman infielder Ashley Prange, who recorded her first career grand slam in the game, said she is excited about continuing that success against the Nittany Lions.

“I think it will be a good day, another conference game.

So, just got to be prepared to go,” Prange said.

Ohio State freshman outfielder Kaitlyn Coffman is aware of what Penn State can do, but is more aware of her

team heading into the two-game midweek doubleheader.

“I think they will be an OK team,” freshman outfielder Kaitlyn Coffman said. “We will still do the thing [that] we’ve been doing.”

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38. Crusted desserts 40. Gradual slant 42. Strikebreaker 43. Narrow openings 45. Zones 47. Korean auto name 48. Causing to wear away 50. ____ Guard 52. Baking tin 53. Ocean liner 54. Pretty and ugly, e.g. (abbr.)

57. Tobacco unit 60. Elevators, in London 64. Gentleman caller 65. Nail-biting, e.g.

67. Jessica of “Sin City” 68. Criticize 69. Actress Verdugo 70. Corrode 71. Hosp. employees 72. Insomniac’s need 73. Words of agreement, out West

Down

1. Out of 2. Words of worry (2 wds.)

3. Swamp grass 4. Philippine grass 5. JFK’s vice president 6. Humorous literary style 7. Sonny of Sonny & Cher 8. Certain horse 9. Stick fast 10. Nile queen, for short 11. Knitting stitch 12. BB’s, e.g.

15. Court cases 20. Undisturbed 24. Powerful Greek god 26. Inits. once seen at airports 27. Like an acrobat 28. “____ Finest Hour” 29. Entertainer Dinah 30. Blood ____

31. Magazine holders 32. Characteristic 33. Delivery svc.

35. Bohemian, e.g.

37. Advanced business degree (abbr.)

39. Clogs (2 wds.)

41. Apiece 44. 9-digit ID org.

46. Stain 49. Ruler divisions 51. Honey factory 53. Hog 54. Alphabet start 55. Letter opening 56. Jolts 58. TV’s Monty 59. “...sting like ___” (2 wds.)

61. Cooking measurement (abbr.)

63. College entry exams (abbr.)

66. Knock

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Weekday games provide opportunity for struggling Buckeyes KEATON MAISANO Lantern reporter maisano.2@osu.edu The Ohio State baseball team has an opportunity to flip the script and end recent woes when it plays Ohio schools this week.

Ohio State (16-16, 2-4 Big Ten) will hit the road to play Ohio (8-21, 3-6 MAC) Tuesday. The Buckeyes then return home for a Wednesday bout against Dayton (1713-1, 7-2 Atlantic 10).

Ohio State enters its next game on a five-game skid, its second-longest losing streak this season. Along this stretch, the Buckeyes have been outscored 42-18 and dropped four games at home.

Ohio has struggled throughout the year, but the Bobcats have improved their numbers in conference play.

The team’s .230 batting average is not impressive. Ohio’s offensive leader is senior first baseman Rudy Rott, who hits .336, and is the only Bobcat to hit above .300. With 26 RBI, Rott has 16 more than any other player on the team.

Ohio has a pair of relief pitchers who offer stability to the pitching staff.

Sophomore pitcher Brett Manis holds the only four saves for the Bobcats this season. His ERA of 2.37 is second-lowest on the team.

The best ERA of 2.16 belongs to sophomore pitcher Edward Klutt, who has made a team-high 15 appearances.

Wednesday, Ohio State will try to end its troubles at home when it welcomes a red-hot Dayton team that has won nine of its past 11 games, including three shutout victories.

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Ohio State junior infielder Conner Pohl (39) dives to third base during the game against Hawaii on March 23. Ohio State won 7-5.

Pitcher Justin Longbrake has made 12 appearances in relief for the Flyers. The junior holds a 3.14 ERA and a strikeoutto-walk ratio of 3.4. Opponents are only hitting .135 against Longbrake.

Offensively, the Flyers are extremely aggressive on the base paths, having stolen 70 bags on 86 attempts. Dayton has four

players with at least 10 steals on the season.

Sophomore third baseman Riley Tirotta succeeds on 90.9 percent of his steals, while also leading the team with 21 RBI. Ohio State will take on Ohio at 6 p.m.

Tuesday. The home game against Dayton will follow at 6:35 p.m. Wednesday.

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Ohio State then-freshman offensive lineman Nicholas Petit-Frere (77), then-redshirt sophomore quarterback Dwayne Haskins (7) and then-junior tight end Rashod Berry (13) celebrate following the game against Northwestern on Dec. 1. Ohio State won 45-24.

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them like really understand how to perform here at this program,” Petit-Frere said.

“Summer’s the same way, but like getting two chances at it instead of one, really changes some people.”

After coming in at 271 pounds, or, as Petit-Frere said, 268 pounds with an extra three of water weight to look less light in front of strength coach strength coach Mickey Marotti, Petit-Frere is up to 295 pounds.

This comes as the result of an 8,000-calorie diet that includes six meals a day, which occasionally come in the middle of the night, according to Petit-Frere.

For someone with a fast metabolism, Petit-Frere said this weight gain has been “a constant battle,” but is a battle that has helped to impress Ohio State offensive line coach Greg Studrawa.

Studrawa said Petit-Frere has had a “heck of a spring” thus far, allowing him to stick the redshirt freshman at the right tackle position while he moves around many of the other members on the line.

Petit-Frere is coming into his second year at Ohio State, but is remaining in his first year of eligibility thanks to the new NCAA rule allowing programs to redshirt players that played in four games or less.

The personal expectations and goals remain the same for the former five-star offensive lineman: do anything he can to help Ohio State win a national title, and play when he is ready to play.

So is he ready to play?

“I feel ready,” Petit-Frere said. “I feel ready.”

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Nicholas Petit-Frere is ‘ready’

WYATT CROSHER Assistant Sports Editor crosher.1@osu.edu Nicholas Petit-Frere came into Ohio State with higher expectations than most linemen before him.

A former five-star prospect out of Berkeley Prep High School, Petit-Frere joined the 2018 Class as the seventh-highest rated prospect and the top-rated offensive lineman in the program’s history, according to 247Sports composite rankings, which began rating recruits in 1999.

But for Petit-Frere, the expectations from the outside world take a back seat to the expectations he has for himself.

“It’s my expectations. It’s not really like expectations of like, ‘Oh, he was rated a five-star guy,’” Petit-Frere said. “Those are my expectations, because it’s like a self determination for me to get better.”

The redshirt freshman offensive tackle comes into the 2019 season with four games played for the Buckeyes, but with his heightened expectations intact.

Ohio State comes into the fall without four of its five 2018 starters on the offensive line, with Isaiah Prince, Demetrius Knox and Malcolm Pridgeon graduating and Michael Jordan forgoing his

Bowen brings the experience to the spot — the fifth-year Ohio State offensive tackle has 19 games played, six of which have been starts.

But Petit-Frere has the potential, something he might not have believed after his first season.

“It’s my expectations.

It’s not really like expectations of like, ‘Oh, he was rated a five-star guy.’ Those are my expectations, because it’s like a self determination for me to get better.”

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Ohio State then-freshman offensive lineman Nicholas Petit-Frere (77) blocks a Tulane player in the fourth quarter of the game against Tulane on Sept. 22. Ohio State won 49-6.

final season of eligibility to enter the 2019 NFL Draft.

This leaves position battles to be won, and gives Petit-Frere an opportunity to earn playing time.

Known most for his work at right tackle, the redshirt freshman is going up against redshirt senior offensive tackle Branden Bowen, who is coming off a major sur-

gery on his leg.

Redshirt senior offensive tackle Josh Alabi is currently playing on the left side in the absence of junior Thayer Munford, who is out for the spring with an injury, but also has the potential to take the spot.

Despite being his main competitor, Bowen had nothing but

positives to say about the player Petit-Frere has become in the past year and a half.

“He’s an amazing player,” Bowen said. “I’ve never seen faster feet on an O-lineman, he’s finally getting that confidence, he’s finally getting the playbook down, and he’s getting to the point where he can really dominate.”

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NICHOLAS PETIT-FRERE Redshirt freshman offensive lineman

He said his first offseason proved to be more difficult at the start than for the early enrollees.

As a new recruit, he enrolled in the summer, and was forced to play catch-up with the freshmen who had been there for spring practices.

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Ohio State synchronized swimming’s national title is latest pillar in dynasty ARI HORTON Lantern reporter horton.291@osu.edu After the Ohio State synchronized swim team’s win at the U.S. Collegiate Nationals in San Antonio, Texas, head coach Holly Vargo-Brown woke up with next year’s season on her mind.

Ohio State added another national title to the team’s list of accomplishments, notching its 32nd title in 42 years, its fifth in the past seven seasons since Vargo-Brown has taken the helm, and its third straight championship.

“We are just continuing to lay one brick after brick in the road that was started 50 years ago.”

SUZANNA HYATT Ohio State synchronized swimming associate head coach

In a season full of trials and new faces, Ohio State pulled off a rare three-peat with its third straight title, something the head coach did not seem to be confident in.

“There was a lot of adversity with illnesses and injuries, and every day they just came into the pool and just worked hard

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The Ohio State synchronized swimming team won its third National Championship in a row on Apr. 6.

to try to get better,” Vargo-Brown said. “I don’t think any of us were sure what the end result was going to be.”

Associate head coach Suzanna Hyatt believed winning this national title was possible from the beginning of the season, especially with the help of the freshman class.

As one of nine freshmen joining the team, Nikki Dzurko made an impact on the team at the U.S. Collegiate Nationals, becoming a solo, duet and team champion.

“I wasn’t expecting to be such a big contributor my freshman year, and I’m really glad I got to,” Dzurko said.

Vargo-Brown said she and Hyatt did a good job of pulling the best out of their student athletes, no matter their level of experience, which resulted in strong performances and ultimately a championship.

“Anything is possible if you believe in the people around you and you believe in yourself and you put the work in,” Vargo-Brown said.

Senior Wenjing Deng has also played a vital role, putting four years of hard work and dedication into the program.

Unlike Dzurko, Deng had the opportunity to be a part of the synchronized swim-

ming team that won nationals in 2017 and 2018, but called this season the most memorable championship run.

With increased responsibility as a senior, Deng had to contribute more to choreography, bringing the team together and setting an example for the freshman class.

“It was the most rewarding experience out of the past three other years,” Deng said.

Throughout the season, Hyatt said she watched all 23 women learn how to be a team.

“At the beginning of the year, we had a lot of individuals,” Hyatt said. “It was so impressive to watch them become one team over the course of the season.”

Vargo-Brown said when you have a mixed group of people, like the one the synchronized swimming team had, it takes time to create a cohesive unit.

She said she didn’t know if the team could come together in such a short amount of time, although their success did not happen overnight.

“All of the work that the coaches and student-athletes have done in the past decades have laid the foundation for it to be possible to go back-to-back-to-back,” Hyatt said.

The coaches and team are continuing to build up the synchronized swimming program at Ohio State, and Hyatt thinks it’s possible to win another national title.

“We are just continuing to lay one brick after brick in the road that was started 50 years ago,” Hyatt said.