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No. 16 Ohio State
7-3, 3-0 GWLL
vs.
No. 8 North Carolina
7-3, 0-3 ACC

Saturday, April 12 - 1 p.m.
Where: The Boys’ Latin School of Maryland, Baltimore, Md.

Buckeye Lax Hits
• Senior Kevin Buchanan and junior Joel Dalgarno, who shared the team lead with six points each vs. both Bellarmine and Air Force last week, carry 39 and 37-game point scoring streaks, respectively, into the game vs. North Carolina.
 The duo are in the Top 5 nationally in points per game and lead the GWLL in scoring.
• Ohio State is second in the country in both man-up offense (.543) and scoring margin (+6.7).
• The Buckeyes have scored double-digit goals in each of their last seven games and are third nationally in scoring offense (13.6 goals per game).
• Next Saturday (April 19), Ohio State will face conference foe Denver in Ohio Stadium prior to the football team’s spring game. The program is looking to break the national lacrosse attendance record (52,004).
• The Buckeyes are ninth nationally in team defense (6.9 goals allowed per game) and senior goalie Stefan Schroder is fourth in the country in goals-against average (6.33).

Gametime
The No. 16 Ohio State men’s lacrosse team (7-3, 3-0 GWLL) travels to Baltimore this weekend to face No. 8 North Carolina (7-3, 0-3 ACC). The teams will meet at 1 p.m. Saturday at The Boys’ Latin School of Maryland. Directions to the field can be found online at www.boyslatinmd.com/about/directions.aspx.

Polling
 Ohio State moved up one spot to No. 16 in the Nike/Inside Lacrosse media poll released Monday. In the USILA coaches poll, the Buckeyes are now 19th.

Homecoming
 When the Buckeyes take on North Carolina Saturday in Baltimore, it will mark the return of eight current players, as well as head coach Joe Breschi, to their home state. Eight Buckeyes hail from Maryland and the Baltimore area - seniors Kevin Buchanan (Cockeysville/Calvert Hall), Josh Funk (Poolesville/Poolesville) and Matt Cornell (Ellicott City/Archbishop Spaulding), juniors Nick Carr (Baltimore/Calvert Hall) and Scott Matthews (Nottingham/Boys’ Latin), sophomores Scott Foreman (Timonium/Calvert Hall) and Patrick Hansen (Annapolis/St. Mary’s) and freshman Andrew Klontz (Silver Spring/Sandy Spring Friends). Breschi is a graduate of Loyola Blakefield.

The game will be played at The Boys’ Latin School of Maryland, the alma mater of Matthews, a three-year starter on defense for the Buckeyes. He will be recognized by the school before the game Saturday.

Almost Here
The Buckeyes will take on Denver at 11 a.m. next Saturday (April 19) in Ohio Stadium before the football team’s spring game. The program will be looking to break the national attendance record of 52,004 (set May 26, 2007 at the NCAA semifinals at M&T Bank Stadium in Baltimore when Johns Hopkins beat Delaware and Duke downed Cornell).

The regular-season attendance record is 20,180, set during a doubleheader featuring Johns Hopkins/Princeton and Virginia/Syracuse March 3, 2007, also at M&T Bank Stadium. The on-campus record is 19,850, set when Maryland hosted Johns Hopkins at Byrd Stadium in College Park, Md., April 18, 1987.

Tickets to the game are $5 and include both the lacrosse and football games. They can be purchased online at OhioStateBuckeyes.com or by calling 1-800-GO-BUCKS. Gates to the stadium will open at 10 a.m., with general admission seating.

Lace Them Up
Buckeye players and coaches are wearing lime green shoelaces in honor of Nick “HEAD” Colleluori, a relentless lacrosse player who lost his life to lymphoma Nov. 28, 2006 at age 21. Colleluori was a native of the Philadelphia area and played lacrosse at Hofstra.

The laces are sold through the HEADstrong Foundation, which supports blood cancer research effort. To date, the foundation has raised over $30,000 from the sale of the laces. For more information, visit HEADstrongfoundation.org.

Buckeye Snapshot
The Buckeyes are 7-3 this season, with wins over Colgate, Penn State, Robert Morris, Villanova,  Quinnipiac, Bellarmine and Air Force. All three of the team’s losses have been to ranked teams in overtime - No. 11 Navy (8-7 OT), No. 19 Bucknell (8-7 3OT) and No. 13 UMBC (12-11 2OT).

The squad is averaging 13.22 goals a game and allowing 6.71 goals a contest. The team has converted 25-of-46 (.543) man-up chances.
Junior Joel Dalgarno has a team-best 24 assists and 45 points. Senior tri-captain Kevin Buchanan is first on the team with 24 goals and is second with 42 points. Junior Peet Poillon has 22 goals to rank second and is fourth with 27 points. Junior Jeff Ryan is third in points with 28, on 19 goals and nine assists. Sophomore James Green has an 11-7-18 line and classmate Mario Ventiquattro also has hit double digits with 16 points, including 12 goals.

Senior goalie Stefan Schroder has started all 10 games and has a 6.33 goals-against average and .597 save percentage.
Junior Nick Carr is first on the team with 50 groundballs and has won 105-of-203 (.517) faceoffs. Schroder is second with 32 groundballs, followed by junior Scott Matthews and sophomore Keith Lovett with 23 each. Senior tri-captains Ricky Pages and Josh Funk have 22 and 21 groundballs, respectively.