Ohio State. Minnesota Semifinal. Skip to main content. Friday, March 7. Duluth, Minn. Game Coverage:. Watch Live Stats. The first semifinal will be played Friday at 2 p. The team's appearance at this week's Final Faceoff is its eighth consecutive. Ohio State has qualified for the conference semifinal every season except the first of head coach Nadine Muzerall 's tenure.
The Buckeyes swept the series with and wins. The team is in postseason play at the arena. Joy Dunne continues to lead the Buckeyes with 52 points on the year. She has dished a team-high 29 assists and scored 23 goals in Dunne is seventh nationally with 1. She also ranks top 10 in the country with. Jocelyn Amos' 25 goals on the year are a team-high. The mark is a career high for the sophomore and ranks sixth in the program record book for goals in a season.
Amos leads the country with 10 power play goals on the year. She has also added a shorthanded goal for the Buckeyes this season. Amos is one of the top players nationally at the faceoff dot. With wins, the center leads the conference and is third in the country. Her win percentage is. The top four teams of the final conference standings advanced to the Final Faceoff. Seventeen of the team's 18 skaters, and two of four goalies, have recorded a point this year.
Sixteen of the 17 have recorded a goal. The Buckeyes are second in the country with 3. The Buckeyes only allow their opponents to Peschel and Swiderski have blocked a team-high 36 shots with Amos 33 and Brengman 34 adding over 30 on the year. Graduate goaltender Amanda Thiele leads the goaltending unit with 24 starts in 25 games played this season for Ohio State. She has an record on the year and has earned a.
This is Dunne's second time making the world championship and Barnes' sixth. Series History β Buckeyes vs. Gophers Ohio State finished the regular season series against Minnesota. The teams faced off in Minneapolis in their last meeting with the Gophers taking game one, , and the Buckeyes responding with a game two win.
