Women's Soccer: Marietta (0-0-0 Overall, 0-0-0 OAC) at Ohio Northern (0-0-0 Overall, 0-0-0 OAC)
Sunday, Mar. 14, 2021, 1 p.m. - Kerscher Stadium, Ada, Ohio
| Match Program (.pdf) | 2020-21 Season Preview story |
Sunday's Preview: The Ohio Northern women's soccer team opens its 2020-21 season at home on Sunday with a 2 pm contest against Marietta ... ONU's abbreviated 2020-21 season will consist of a round-robin OAC schedule from March 14-April 11 with the OAC Tournament April 13-18 ... Northern, under 17th-year head coach Mark Batman, has won five OAC Regular Season titles, finished league runners-up six more times, and has won two of the past OAC Tournament titles ... The Polar Bears welcomes back 16 letterwinners and five starters from the 2019 squad that went a perfect 9-0-0 in league play, won the OAC Tournament title and reached the Sweet 16 of the NCAA III Tournament ... Senior Sydney Leshnak and and junior Carissa Beckham are returning All-Conference players for ONU ... Leshnak is a two-time OAC Defender of the Year, a two-time All-Great Lakes Region honoree and a three-time All-Conference award winner that has started all 67 matches during her three seasons as a Polar Bear. She has eight goals, five assists and 21 points in her career from the back row ... Beckham was named Second Team All-OAC as a sophomore in 2019 and is an Academic All-OAC and Academic All-District honoree ... The Pioneers return eight starters from last year's team that went 8-9-2 overall, and 2-6-1 in Ohio Athletic Conference play and are coached by second-year head coach Sean Kaighin ... Offensively Marietta returns its leading goal scorer from the past three seasons in senior forward Chloe Williams ... Williams scored six goals last season, including three game winning goals.
Returning ONU Statistical Leaders (2019 Stats):
| Goals | Assists | Points | Saves | GAA | ||||||||||||||
| 1. | Ward | 4 | 1. | Leshnak | 4 | 1. | Leshnak | 10 | 1. | 1. | ||||||||
| 2. | Leshnak | 3 | 2. | Mathews | 3 | 2. | Ward | 9 | ||||||||||
| Mathews | 3 | 3. | Contenza | 2 | Mathews | 9 |
Series Record: Ohio Northern leads the all-time series between the two schools by a 24-6-2 margin ... ONU is 13-2-1 at home and 11-4-1 at Marietta ... ONU has won the last 13 matches, including a 5-0 decision in Ada in 2019.
Head Coach Mark Batman: Batman is in his 17th season with the ONU women's soccer program ... He sports an overall coaching record of 217-83-30, a .703 win percentage.
