Women's Soccer: Ohio Northern (7-0-0 Overall, 7-0-0 OAC) at Otterbein (7-0-0 Overall, 7-0-0 OAC)
Thursday, April 8, 2021, 7 p.m. - Memorial Stadium, Westerville, Ohio
Thursday's Preview: Thursday night's contest will be a battle for at least a share of the OAC Regular Season title and the No. 1 seed in next week's OAC Tournament for the winner ... It will be the eighth of nine matches of the Ohio Northern women's soccer team's abbreviated 2020-21 schedule ... The Polar Bears will play a round-robin OAC schedule from March 14-April 11 with the 6-team OAC Tournament April 13-18 ... A limited number of spectators will be allowed to attend the games based on the OAC's COVID-19 policy ... Each player will receive two admissions each game ... No tickets will be available to the general public ... ONU knocked off previously unbeaten Capital Monday night 1-0, leading to the showdown for the number one seed and OAC regular season title with undefeated Otterbein ... The number one seed will have home-field advantage throughout the tournament, receive a first round bye and host the winner of the fourth and fifth seeds on Thursday night April 15th ... ONU has not allowed a goal in 631 minutes of action this season ... The Polar Bears are coming off a 1-0 win against Capital on Monday ... Senior Siena Ward scored the early goal for the Polar Bears on a free kick ... Junior Kristy Catrine made seven saves in 90:00 of action to earn the win ... She ran her scoreless streak to 623 minutes this season and 626 minutes in her career ... Ward leads the team in scoring with 4 goals and 8 assists ... Freshman Alex Hoeffel is second with 3 goals and 7 points ... Sophomore Hailey McGuire is third with 5 points on 2 goals and 1 assist ... Otterbein won 9-0 against Muskingum Monday night ... OU has allowed 2 goals this season in 630 minutes of action ... Bella Shivley leads the Cardinals and the OAC in scoring with 7 goals, 10 assists and 24 points ... Delaney Earl is second in scoring with 7 goals, 2 assists and 16 points ... Erin Gordon has 18 saves and a 0.33 GAA in 548 minutes in goal.
ONU Statistical Leaders:
| Goals | Assists | Points | Saves | GAA | ||||||||||||||
| 1. | Ward | 4 | 1. | Cabana | 2 | 1. | Ward | 8 | 1. | Catrine | 13 | 1. | Catrine | 0.00 | ||||
| 2. | Hoeffel | 3 | 2. | 7 Tied With | 1 | 2. | Hoeffel | 7 | ||||||||||
| 3. | McGuire | 2 | 3. | McGuire | 5 | |||||||||||||
| Morris | 2 |
Series Record: ONU leads the all-time series between the two schools by a 20-17-2 margin ... Northern is 11-11 at Westerville ... The Polar Bears won both matches in 2019 with 2-1 wins
Head Coach Mark Batman: Batman is in his 17th season with the ONU women's soccer program ... He has an overall coaching record of 224-83-30, a winning percentage of .694.