The No. 30 Ohio State baseball team travels to the West Palm Beach Tournament in West Palm Beach, Fla. This weekend. They face Pittsburgh tonight, SIU Edwardsville and Baltimore Maryland County tomorrow and North Dakota State on Sunday.
The Buckeyes are heading into the weekend 9-2, with losses to Rhode Island and Maine last weekend at the RussMatt Invitational.
"We're going to play four games in a short period of time and it's really going to test our ball club," coach Bob Todd said. "That's what we want to do early in the year is see how mentally we can handle this adversity."
The probable rotation for OSU includes sophomore Alex Wimmers tonight, sophomore Andrew Armstrong and junior Eric Best tomorrow and sophomore Dean Wolosiansky on Sunday.
Wimmers and Armstrong lead the group with ERAs of 2.25. The four are a combined 5-1 on the season.
The team is hoping to rebound from its losses and remain one of the top teams in the region and the nation.
"We were getting a little bit too comfortable when we take a lead," said Michael Arp, senior right fielder. "We were leading pretty good in a couple of the games there and we got a little too comfortable and assumed we were going to take it away. The teams fought back and I guess the lesson we learned is that every team we play is going to fight hard until the game is over."
Molly Gray can be reached at gray.557@osu.edu.
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