Ohio State Spring Sports updates you won’t want to miss this week

Find out how tennis fared in the Big Ten tournament, see what records softball is breaking and more.

As the 2025 spring sports season winds down, Ohio State’s spring sports teams are still heating up, with record-breaking performances, Big Ten titles, and NCAA Tournament announcements. Here are all the updates you need to stay in the loop on Buckeye spring sports.

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No. 9 Women’s Tennis wins Big Ten Tournament

The No. 9 Ohio State women’s tennis team won its fourth Big Ten Tournament title this weekend, defeating No. 3 Michigan, 4-3, in a battle that lasted more than three and a half hours and came down to a third set on court 4.

It is the Buckeyes’ fifth consecutive Big Ten Tournament finals appearance — all against Michigan — though OSU last won in 2021.

The Wolverines took the doubles point, but OSU responded quickly with singles wins from No. 10 Luciana Perry and No. 30 Teah Chavez, giving OSU a 2-1 lead. Shelly Bereznyak and Audrey Spencer then dropped their singles matches in hard-fought battles, giving the Wolverines a one-point lead.

A singles win from Sydni Ratliff, who was selected the B1G Tournament’s Most Outstanding Player, evened the score for the Buckeyes. The title ultimately came down to the results of a face-off between two freshmen, with Nao Nishino representing Ohio State and ultimately securing the victory in three heart-stopping sets.

In addition to the title and Ratliff’s honors, Ratliff and Perry were both named to the 2025 Big Ten All-Tournament Team.

Their tournament win earned the Buckeyes an automatic berth to the NCAA Tournament, and they were selected as a No. 4 seed, with the first and second rounds scheduled for this upcoming weekend, May 2-4. The Top 16 seeds serve as host sites, and OSU will host Buffalo, UIC, and Notre Dame.

OSU’s first match will take place against Buffalo, the MAC champion, while UIC and Notre Dame will square off first. The winner of the Columbus site then advances to a single-elimination super regional.

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Men’s golf finishes in the Top 5 at the Big Ten Championships

With a final round score of 296, Ohio State’s men’s golf team finished fifth in the Big Ten Championships for the second consecutive year. While the team posted scores of 282 and 279 in the previous two rounds, Sunday’s final round was a tough day for scoring, and across the board, scores averaged about four shots higher than the previous rounds.

The Buckeyes were led by Tyler Sabo, whose final-round score of 72, which included four birdies, was good for seventh place.

OSU will find out Wednesday whether their season will continue at the NCAA Men’s Golf Championship, with the selection show scheduled for April 30, at 1 p.m. ET, airing live on the Golf Channel. The Championship will be held May 23-28 in Carlsbad, California.

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Softball breaks a Big Ten record

The Buckeyes finished their home schedule with a record-breaking weekend and a series sweep of Purdue (26-20), improving to 41-10-1 on the year and finishing with a home record of 19-3.

The sweep marked nine consecutive victories for the Buckeyes, and in the process, they broke the Big Ten record for most home runs in a season. OSU currently has 130 with several games left to play. Contributing to that total were Morgan Frye, Hadley Parisien, Taylor Cruse, and Kami Kortokrax. Frye scored two home runs in Game 2 of the series, while Parisien and Cruse each had a homer in Game 2 and again in Game 3.

The Buckeyes will aim to continue their win streak and add to their home run totals this upcoming weekend as they close out their regular season on the road at Illinois (21-25) in a three-game series.

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Track & Field earns 3 wins and 4 PRs

Track & Field competed at both the Drake Relays and the Jim Freeman/Clark Wood Open, hosted by the University of Louisville, this weekend, and finished with three wins and four PRs across both meets.

At the Drake Relays, the Buckeyes took the top spot for the women’s 4x100m relay, thanks to the efforts of Leah Bertrand, Fatouma Conde, Bobbi Olive, and Olivia Powel,l who earned a time of 43.91 seconds. Sophie Fong also won the women’s pole vault with a clearance of 4.07m/13’4.25”.

In Louisville, the Buckeyes earned another win, this time in men’s discu,s thanks to Tanner Watson’s throw of 57.35m/188’2”.

OSU also earned top 3 track finishes in men’s 100m (Nazzio John, 10.54 seconds for second place), men’s 110m hurdles (Braxton Brann, 13.92 seconds for fourth place), and the men’s 4x400m relay (Brann, Nick Biega, Marcus Brown and Noah Carmichael finished third with a time of 3:05.82).

In field events at the Drake Relays, the Buckeyes finished third in men’s pole vault (Daniel Edwards, 4.87m/15’11.75” clearance), second in men’s long jump (DJ Fillmore, 7.38m/24’2.5”), and second in women’s long jump (Sydnee Burr, 5.99m/19’8”). In Louisville, Morgan Hallett finished fourth in women’s discus with a throw of 48.32m/158’6”, while Lacey Stringer was the runner-up in women’s hammer throw with a season-best throw of 59.43m / 194’11” and placed third in women’s shot put, throwing 15.84m/51’11.75”. Sophie Bidwell, who set two PRs this weekend (in hammer throw and discus), placed third in hammer throw with her new personal-best distance of 56.03m/183’10”.

Up next, the Buckeyes will host the Jesse Owens Memorial Classic next Friday, May 2 and Saturday, May 3.

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Men’s tennis earns No. 5 seed in NCAA Tournament

Despite a heartbreaking 4-3 loss to UCLA in the Big Ten Tournament final, the regular season Big Ten Champion Buckeyes earned a No. 5 seed in the NCAA Tournament and will host matches during the first two rounds. They will open the tournament against Buffalo Saturday morning, while Auburn and Belmont will also head to Columbus.

The winners of each of those matches will then meet on Sunday in the second round.