Women's Soccer: Ohio Northern (6-2-0 Overall, 0-0-0 OAC) at Marietta (3-5-1 Overall, 0-0-0 OAC)
Saturday, September 29, 2018, 4 p.m. - Marietta Field, Marietta, Ohio
Saturday's Preview: The Ohio Northern women's soccer team will open the defense of its 2017 Ohio Athletic Conference title with a 4 pm match at Marietta ... ONU has won 16 consecutive OAC Regular Season matches, going 9-0-0 last year and winning their final seven matches of 2016 ... Northern also won the 2016 Regular Season title with an 8-1-0 record ... The Polar Bears are coming off a 2-0 victory over Wittenberg at Kerscher Stadium on Tuesday night ... Sophomore Jenna Fuller netted two goals to lead the Polar Bears ... She has now scored in five consecutive matches, with eight goals in that span ... Her 5-match goal streak is the second-longest in school history ... ONU Hall of Famer Erin Hipp-Hester scored goals in the first 10 games of the 1997 season ... Junior goalie Meagan Grierson saved the lone Wittenberg shot on goal to earn her 26th career shutout. ... Northern has now posted six consecutive shutouts overall and eight consecutive shutouts at Kerscher Stadium ... Through eight matches this season, Fuller leads the team and the OAC with eight goals and 16 points ... Senior McKenna Welsh is second on the team with two goals and six points and junior Haley Moses has a team-best three assists ... Grierson leads the OAC with a 0.49 goals against average ... The Pioneers are coming off a scoreless tie at Thiel (Pa.) on Tuesday and are 2-2-1 in their last five matches ... MC is 2-2-0 this season at Marietta Field, defeating Pittsburgh-Greensburg (Pa.) and Earlham (Ind.) and falling to Saint Vincent (Pa.) and Oberlin ... Chloe Williams leads the team with three goals and seven points and Katie Conkle is 3-4-1 with 36 saves and a 0.81 GAA in goal.
ONU Statistical Leaders:
| Goals |
Assists | Points | Saves | GAA | ||||||||||||||
| 1. | Fuller | 8 | 1. | Moses | 3 | 1. | Fuller | 16 | 1. | Grierson | 15 | 1. | Grierson | 0.49 | ||||
| 2. | Welsh | 2 | 2. | Welsh | 2 | 2. | Welsh | 6 | ||||||||||
| 3. | Brier | 1 | 3. | 6 Tied With | 1 | 3. | Moses | 5 | ||||||||||
| Morris | 1 | |||||||||||||||||
| Moses | 1 |
All-Time Series: Ohio Northern holds a 22-6-2 advantage in the series between the two schools ... ONU has won 11 consecutive matches in the series and is 11-0-1 since 2005.
Head Coach Mark Batman: Batman is currently in his 15th season as the head coach of the Ohio Northern women's soccer program … He owns an overall record of 191-78-26 (.692), ranking him as the all-time winningest coach in program history.
