Men's Lacrosse: Otterbein (6-10 Overall) at Ohio Northern (11-5 Overall) - OAC Tournament Quarterfinals
Saturday, April 29, 2023, 1 p.m. - Dial-Roberson Stadium, Ada, Ohio
| Game Program (.pdf) | OAC Tournament Site |
Saturday's Game: Ohio Northern will be the No. 4 seed in the OAC Tournament and will host No. 5 seed Otterbein on Saturday in the quarterfinals at Dial-Roberson Stadium ... The top six teams qualify for the OAC Tournament April 29-May 6 ... The top two seeds receive first round byes and will host semifinal games on Wednesday, May 3 ... No. 3 Capital will host No. 6 Mount Union in the other quarterfinal game ... The ONU-OU winner will travel to top-seeded Baldwin Wallace and the MtU-CU winner will play at No. 2 seed John Carroll in the semifinals on Wednesday ... The finals are slated for Saturday, May 6 ... The Ohio Northern-Otterbein contest is a rematch of Wednesday's game, which ONU won 13-9 ... Junior John Lynn scored a career-high four goals and junior Aidan Dempsey also had a hat trick with three goals for ONU ... Through 16 games this season, Dempsey leads the Polar Bears with 43 points on 29 goals and 14 assists ... Junior Sebastian Michaud is second wits 24 goals and 32 points and senior Tyler Ferguson has 19 goals and 21 points ... Lynn has 16 goals, 11 assists and 27 points ... Senior Cole Zaferakis is 11-5 with a 7.52 GAA, 123 saves and a 54.9 save percentage ... He is ONU's all-time career leader in saves with 422 and in victories with 35 ... He is also second with 2,618 career minutes played ... Senior Riley O'Neal is fifth in ONU history with 34 career assists ... Junior Chad Calderwood is fourth in ONU history with 280 face-off wins and is third with a 55.2 face-off win percentage. ... The Cardinals enter Saturday's OAC Tournament winners of three of their last four games ... On Wednesday against ONU, junior Aidan Moore and sophomore Carson Rainone each scored three goals for Otterbein. ... Moore leads OU in scoring this season with 24 goals and 36 points ... Senior Nick Clay has 19 goals, 12 assists and 31 points ... Sophomore Luke Farthing is 4-10 with 146 saves, a 10.92 GAA and a .503 save percentage in goal.
Ohio Northern Statistical Leaders:
| Goals | Assists | Points | Ground Balls |
Face Offs | Caused TOs | ||||||||||||||||
| 1. | Dempsey | 29 | 1. | Dempsey | 14 | 1. | Dempsey | 43 | 1. | Calderwood | 63 | 1. | Calderwood | 117-217 | 1. | An.Reimer | 25 | ||||
| 2. | Michaud | 24 | 2. | Lynn | 11 | 2. | Michaud | 32 | 2. | An.Reimer | 52 | 2. | Dittus | 48-83 | 2. | Keeley | 16 | ||||
| 3. | Ferguson | 19 | 3. | O'Neal | 8 | 3. | Lynn | 27 | 3. | Keeley | 37 | 3. | Smith | 33-65 | 3. | Mitchell | 12 | ||||
| Michaud | 8 |
All-Time Series: Ohio Northern leads the all-time series with OU by a 5-3 margin … ONU won this year's game 13-9 in Ada ... ONU is 4-1 in the series in games played at Dial-Roberson Stadium ... This is the first meeting between the two schools in OAC Tournament play.
ONU Head Coach Nat St. Laurent: St. Laurent is in his sixth season at ONU with a 79-40 record, a winning percentage of .664.