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Mark Znidar comes to Press Pros Magazine after 33 ½ years at The Columbus Dispatch. From 1996 until September 2018, he staffed high school sports, Ohio colleges that included the Mid-American Conference, Ohio State’s upcoming opponents in football and Ohio State baseball. In the previous three seasons he covered the Columbus Clippers triple-A baseball team. His other beats were Ohio State basketball (1985-88), Clippers (1985-86 and 1989-93), Cincinnati Bengals (1993-95) and NASCAR (1994-2008). He subbed on the Columbus Blue Jackets and Ohio State women’s basketball beats. In March 2017, Znidar was inducted into the Ohio Prep Sportswriters Association Hall of Fame. Znidar was born in Cleveland and raised in Richmond Heights. He graduated from Cleveland St. Joseph High School and the University of Dayton. He also worked for The Atlantic City Press, Lake County News-Herald and Baltimore News-American. ....
BLOOMINGTON, Ind. – Ohio State junior Garrett Burhenn delivered his best performance of the season, and maybe his career, just when the Buckeyes needed it. After a game one loss to Nebraska, Burhenn shut Indiana down in a 3-1 complete game victory to give the Buckeyes a split on Saturday in Bloomington. OSU (20-18) lost 9-0 in game one and needed some sort of shot in the arm. Burhenn certainly gave them that, and then some. The Indianapolis native turned in his first career complete game, going all nine innings and allowing just one run on seven hits while striking out a season-high 10 batters. What was perhaps the most eye-popping stat of the game was that Burhenn never got to a three-ball count on any hitter. ....
Indiana – TBA COLUMBUS, Ohio – Ohio State heads to Bloomington this weekend to face the top two teams in the conference in host Indiana and Nebraska. The Buckeyes have played both teams already this season. Ohio State and Nebraska split a pair of games in Minneapolis in March and Ohio State swept Indiana in a four-game series in Columbus at the beginning of April. Nebraska holds a one-game lead over Indiana for the top spot in the conference. The Buckeyes are in sixth place, 5.5 games back. The Opponents Nebraska comes into the weekend at 25-11 and lead the conference by one game. ....
Pitching: TBA vs. LHP Griffan Smith (1-0) TV/Streaming: BTN, FOX Sports App Radio: Husker Sports Network
The Nebraska baseball team (25-11) hits the road for the final time during the 2021 regular season this weekend when it heads to Bloomington, Ind., for pod play against the #25 Indiana Hoosiers (24-13) and Ohio State Buckeyes (19-16). Nebraska is 1-1 against both the Hoosiers and Buckeyes this season. The Huskers played Ohio State during week two of the season in Minneapolis at U.S. Bank Stadium and saw the Hoosiers twice in Piscataway two weeks ago at the Rutgers Pod. Nebraska’s weekend at Bart Kaufman Field kicks off on Friday night at 7 PM (CT) against the Hoosiers and the game will be carried nationally on BTN. The Huskers then play two games on Saturday, starting with the Buckeyes at Noon before a 5:30 PM contest against the Hoosiers on ESPNU. The four-game weekend wraps up on Sunday at Noon on BTN when the Huskers and Buckeyes meet f ....