Men's Lacrosse: Capital (2-1 Overall) at Ohio Northern (3-0 Overall)
Wednesday, March 17, 2021, 7 p.m. - Dial-Roberson Stadium, Ada, Ohio
Wednesday's Preview: The Polar Bears continue their abbreviated 2021 season with a non-conference home game against Capital on Wednesday 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 ... Wednesday's home game with Capital will not count toward the OAC standings ... The Polar Bears are coming off a 16-3 victory at Muskingum on Saturday ... Senior Cameron Marous had 5 goals and 3 assists to lead Northern ... Marous is ONU's all-time career leader with 124 goals, 99 assists and 223 points ... He leads the OAC with 13 assists and 19 points to go with 6 goals and a team-best 8 ground balls this year ... Senior Joe O'Connell is third in the league with 7 goals ... Sophomore Cole Zaferakis is third in the OAC with a 4.61 GAA and is fourth in the league with a .611 save percentage in goal ... Freshman Chad Calderwood is 22-of-28 (.786) and senior Preston Victory is 15-of-20 (.750) on faceoffs this year ... Ohio Northern will continue the OAC portion of its schedule on Saturday at Baldwin Wallace. ... The Crusaders are coming off a 27-9 loss to John Carroll on Saturday ... Sophomore Johnathan Kilgallon led CU with 3 goals ... Kilgallon leads the team and is tied for 5th in the OAC with 7 goals and is second on the team with 7 points ... Senior C.J. Hughes has 6 goals, is third in the OAC team with 8 assists and is third in the OAC with 13 points.
Ohio Northern Statistical Leaders:
| Goals | Assists | Points | Shots | Ground Balls | ||||||||||||||
| 1. | O'Connell | 7 | 1. | Marous | 13 | 1. | Marous | 19 | 1. | Giles | 22 | 1. | Marous | 8 | ||||
| 2. | Marous | 6 | 2. | Dempsey | 3 | 2. | O'Connell | 9 | 2. | Marous | 20 | 2. | Victory | 7 | ||||
| 3. | Giles | 5 | Schmeling | 3 | 3. | Schmeling | 6 | 3. | O'Connell | 16 | 3. | Mullin | 7 | |||||
| Edkins | 5 | Ferguson | 3 | Dempsey | 6 | |||||||||||||
| Schmelling | 6 |
All-Time Series: Capital leads the all-time series between the two schools by a 3-2 margin ... Ohio Northern is 0-2 at home against CU ... ONU won the last 2019 battle 10-9 in the OAC Tournament in Bexley.
ONU Head Coach Nat St. Laurent: St. Laurent is in his sixth season at ONU with a 51-24 record, a winning percentage of .680.