Women’s Soccer: Ohio Northern (9-3-2 Overall, 5-0-0 OAC) at Heidelberg (8-5-0, 1-4-0 OAC)
Wednesday, October 20, 2021, 4 p.m. — Hidden Valley Soccer Complex, Tiffin, Ohio
Wednesday's Preview: Ohio Northern enters Wednesday's match riding a 6-game unbeaten streak and 5-game win streak with each result being a shutout … The Polar Bears are in a 3-way tie atop the Ohio Athletic Conference standings with Otterbein and Capital … ONU is coming off of Saturday's 1-0 home win over John Carroll … Senior Tara Morris scored the game-winning goal for the Polar Bears on an assist from freshman Emma Bowman … Senior goalkeeper Kristy Catrine secured her ninth shutout of the season en route to earning the OAC Women's Soccer Defensive Player of the Week honor for last week … Catrine is tied with Kristin DeWees for seventh on the program's all-time career leaderboard in shutouts with 17 and needs 2 more to tie Emily Brodict for sixth place … Catrine leads the OAC in shutouts (9), save percentage (.870) and GAA (0.50) while tallying 47 saves on the season … ONU has outscored its opponents 18-7 this season and has registered 10 shutouts … Sophomore Jill Roberts leads the team with 5 goals, 3 assists and 13 points, which rank tied for 10th, tied for eighth and tied for 10th in the OAC, respectively … Sophomore Alaina Casey has 4 goals and 9 points, while freshman Elizabeth Pierce has 3 goals and 8 points … Heidelberg enters Wednesday's game coming off of Saturday's 7-0 loss at Otterbein … The Student Princes have scored 28 goals while giving up 20 and are 4-1-0 at home this season … Junior Audrey Kaufman and sophomore Madi Lause lead HU in goals with 9 each and in points with 25 and 20, respectively … Kaufman and Lause are tied for third in the OAC in goals … Kaufman ranks second in the OAC in points while Lause is fifth … Kaufman ranks second in the OAC in assists (7) and third in shots (60) … Junior goalkeeper Meredith Bruce has played the entirety of all 13 games for HU and leads the OAC in saves (94) and ranks fourth in save percentage (.825).
ONU Statistical Leaders:
| Goals | Assists | Points | Saves | GAA | ||||||||||||||
| 1. | Roberts | 5 | 1. | Roberts | 3 | 1. | Roberts | 13 | 1. | Catrine | 47 | 1. | Moss | 0.00 | ||||
| 2. | Casey | 4 | 2. | 4 tied | 2 | 2. | Casey | 9 | 2. | Moss | 1 | 2. | Catrine | 0.50 | ||||
| 3. | Pierce | 3 | 3. | 3 tied | 1 | 3. | Pierce | 8 |
Series Record: Ohio Northern leads the all-time series with Heidelberg by a 26-10-3 margin, including 11-7-2 in Tiffin … The Polar Bears have won 24 straight games in the series … HU's last win over ONU was in 1997 … The teams last met in April as part of the COVID-delayed 2020 season with ONU coming away with a 2-0 home win.
Head Coach Mark Batman: Batman is in his 18th season with the ONU women's soccer program … He is the winningest head coach in program history with an overall coaching record of 234-87-34, a .691 win percentage, and a conference record of 127-23-8 (.821 winning percentage).