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Ohio State women’s hockey wins National Championship

Ohio State women’s hockey wins National Championship #GoBucks

The Ohio State Buckeyes women’s hockey team is bringing home a National Championship trophy after defeating Minnesota Duluth 3-2. The game-winning score game from Kinzie Hauswirth with six minutes and 40-seconds left remaining in the contest and that shot etched her name in history as this marks the first National Championship in Ohio State women’s hockey history.

The Buckeyes finished the historic season with a 32-6 record and head coach Nadine Muzerall has transformed this women’s program into a national force, which isn’t surprising given her impressive resume. I don’t know much about hockey, but this program looks built to last under the guidance of Muzerall.

Ohio State Women’s Hockey to play for national championship

The Ohio State Women’s Hockey Team looks for its first national championship when it takes on Minnesota Duluth today at 4 p.m. #GoBucks

The Ohio State Women’s Hockey team will look to make history Sunday and win its first national championship in program history. The Buckeyes made it to the Frozen Four, which is being played in Happy Valley, and took care of the Yale Bulldogs on Friday night. OSU trailed Yale before rallying for the comeback victory.

The No. 1 seeded Buckeyes will take on the University of Minnesota Duluth today at 4 p.m. ET. Because not many schools have women’s hockey as a collegiate sport, Ohio State and Minnesota Duluth are in the same conference, the WCHA. The teams met four times during the regular season, splitting the series, each with two wins and two losses. They’ll face off one more time for the 2022 national title on the line.

If you want to see the OSU women’s team compete for the championship, you can tune into ESPNU. If you don’t have access to the ESPN family of networks, the game can be live-streamed on GamePass for $7.99.

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Ohio State women’s hockey team headed to the Frozen Four

Congrats to the lady Bucks. Off to the Frozen Four!

The Ohio State women’s ice hockey team is headed to the Women’s Frozen Four, and in the most dramatic of fashions.

The Buckeyes took the ice on Saturday as the No. 1 seed in the NCAA Tournament and matched off with Quinnipiac on home ice. To say that the game was a battle would be an understatement.

The Bobcats struck first at 8:26 of the first period despite being outshot by Ohio State. It stayed that way until the Buckeyes’ Riley Brengman scored on the power play with just under a minute to play in the opening period to tie things at one goal apiece.

OSU got another goal on the power play early in the second period when Clair DeGeorge lit the lamp just 4:30 in to give the Buckeyes their first lead of the contest. Quinnipiac answered a little later in the period and the teams headed to the second intermission tied at 2-2.

Ohio State would get a one-goal advantage again early in the third period when Sophie Jacques skated into the zone and let go of a wrister that got by the goaltender from the right slot. However, the Bobcats would not go down easily. They tied things up on the power play and with the extra attacker with just a little over a minute left in the game, and off to overtime things went.

The first overtime didn’t result in a goal despite some scoring chances, so off to a second OT for some extra, extra hockey for those in attendance. Then, just under two minutes into the second overtime, DeGeorge struck again on a chip in front of the net that went over the Quinnipiac goaltender’s left shoulder and into the back of the net for the winner.

The Buckeyes will now head to University Park, Pennsylvania, and the campus of Penn State to take part in the Frozen Four with a shot at a national title on the line. OSU will first match up with Yale on Friday. Win that one and the championship game is on Sunday.

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Ohio State women’s ice hockey team receives No. 1 seed for upcoming NCAA Tournament

In case this flew under your radar, the Ohio State women’s ice hockey team is the No. 1 overall seed for the upcoming NCAA Tournament. #GoBucks

The Ohio State women’s ice hockey team was revealed as the overall No. 1 seed in the upcoming NCAA Women’s Ice Hockey Tournament, a first for the program. Eleven teams made the field, with only the top five selections receiving a seed.

The other four teams that were seeded include Minnesota (2), Northeastern (3), Colgate (4), and Yale (5). The six other programs that made the field are Syracuse, Clarkson, Harvard, Quinnipiac, Minnesota-Duluth, and Wisconsin.

Ohio State will host and play the winner of the regional semifinal on Thursday in the Ohio State Ice Rink between Quinnipiac and Syracuse. The 2022 NCAA Women’s Frozen Four will be hosted by Penn State University at Pegula Ice Arena in State College, Pennsylvania, with semifinal games to be broadcast live, Friday, March 18. The national championship game will take place at 4 p.m. Eastern time, Sunday, March 20 on ESPNU.

Congrats to the OSU women’s ice hockey team. We’ll continue to follow the journey from here on out.

Ohio State women’s hockey wins WCHA Tournament championship

Conference champs! #GoBucks

While you were likely wallowing away in another poor outing by the Ohio State basketball team, there was another OSU squad going for a conference title, and this time it was on the ice. The Ohio State women’s hockey team beat No. 1 Minnesota, coming from two goals down to take home the WCHA Tournament crown.

Early on, it looked like the Golden Gophers were well on their way to a coronation of sorts, heading into the third and final period up 2-0. But Ohio State didn’t quit and managed to get its first goal just over three minutes into the third period when Sara Saekkinen lit the lamp to make it 2-1. It stayed that way until a Sophie Jaques tied it 2-2 with 9:34 to play. Both teams then traded some pretty good scoring chances, but the game went into overtime.

Then the drama ensued. Jacques was again the hero in overtime, collecting her own shot on a rebound while on the power play and sneaking it through the Minnesota goaltender for the game-winner, a 3-2 triumph.

The title is the second-ever WCHA championship for the Buckeyes. The ladies also won it back in 2020. Now it’s off to the postseason where Ohio State has a lot of momentum to perhaps make a deep run.

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