Men's Lacrosse: Otterbein (0-0 Overall) at Ohio Northern (0-0 Overall)
Sunday, April 28, 2020, 1 p.m. - Dial-Roberson Stadium, Ada, Ohio
| Game Program (.pdf) | 2021 Ohio Northern Men's Lacrosse preview |
Sunday's Preview: The Polar Bears begin their abbreviated 2021 season with a non-conference home game against Otterbein on Sunday at Dial-Roberson Stadium ... Ohio Northern will play a round-robin OAC schedule with games against the other nine league schools on nine consecutive Saturdays to determine the OAC Regular Season title and the seeding for the OAC Tournament ... Each OAC school will play four other league schools in non-conference games ... Sunday's home game with Otterbein will not count toward the OAC standings ... Sixth-year head coach Nat St. Laurent welcomes back eight starters and 37 lettermen from last year's squad that was 4-2 when the season was ended prematurely due to the COVID-19 pandemic ... The Polar Bears are led by fifth-year senior and All-District honoree Cameron Marous on attack ... Marous is also an Academic All-American and a three-time All-Conference award winner ... He is ONU's all-time career leader with 118 goals, 86 assists and 204 points ... In all, ONU's 57-man roster has 11 seniors, 15 juniors, 11 sophomores and 20 freshmen ... Ohio Northern will begin the OAC portion of its schedule on March 6 at Heidelberg ... The Cardinals enter the 2021 season coming off a 4-2 record ... OU graduated a program-record 14 seniors ... Senior All-Conference honoree Xander Seal leads the list of returners with 119 points in 39 career games ... Sophomore Logan Fenech was second on the team with eight goals a year ago ... All-OAC senior Jordan Tobler leads the OU defense.
ONU Returning Statistical Leaders (2020 Stats):
| Goals | Assists | Points | Shots | Ground Balls | ||||||||||||||
| 1. | O'Connell | 15 | 1. | Marous | 5 | 1. | O'Connell | 16 | 1. | O'Connell | 49 | 1. | Marous | 18 | ||||
| 2. | Marous | 9 | 2. | Berthelsen-Leon | 4 | 2. | Marous | 14 | 2. | Marous | 34 | 2. | Victory | 12 | ||||
| 3. | Berthelsen-Leon | 6 | 3. | Neff | 3 | 3. | Berthelsen-Leon | 10 | 3. | Berthelsen-Leon | 28 | 3. | O'Connell | 8 | ||||
| Zaferakis | 8 | |||||||||||||||||
| Veto | 8 | |||||||||||||||||
| Christopher | 8 | |||||||||||||||||
| Mitchell | 8 |
All-Time Series: The all-time series between the two schools is tied at 2-2 ... Ohio Northern is 2-1 at home and 0-1 on the road ... ONU has won two straight, including a 13-8 win last year in Ada.
ONU Head Coach Nat St. Laurent: St. Laurent is in his sixth season at ONU with a 48-24 record, a winning percentage of .666.
