Men's Lacrosse: Muskingum (3-6 Overall, 0-3 OAC) at Ohio Northern (9-1 Overall, 2-0 OAC)
Wednesday, April 7, 2018, 7 pm - Dial-Roberson Stadium, Ada, Ohio
Saturday's Preview: Ohio Northern is off to the best start in program history and is riding a 6-game winning streak ... ONU has now had a winning streak of six or more games in each of its 3 varsity seasons, including an 8-game streak last season ... ONU is coming off a 22-4 victory at Wilmington on Wednesday ... Junior Peter Hardt, freshman Joe O'Connell and sophomore Cameron Marous each had hat tricks for ONU ... Hardt picked up the fourth hat trick of his career and O'Connell notched his first career hat trick ... Marous now has seven hat tricks this season and 13 in his 26-game career ... Marous also tied his own single-game record with six assists and just missed his ONU record with nine points ... He now leads the OAC 56 points, is second with 28 assists and is third with 28 goals on the year ... Junior Max Weese is second in the team with 15 goals and 19 assists and sophomore Kevin Giles in third with 14 goals and 17 points ... Junior Alex Pizarro is 7-1 with 43 saves and a 5.84 GAA and junior Andrew Markell is 2-0 with 23 saves and a 4.05 GAA in goal ... Muskingum enters the contest off a 21-4 loss at Otterbein on Wednesday ... Senior Ian McGougan led the Muskies with two goals on three shots ... Sophomore Adrien Hammond and junior Ryan Stacey each scored one goal ... Through 9 games this season, Stacey leads the team with 25 goals and 27 points ... McGougan is second with 15 goals and 25 points to go with his team-high 10 assists ... Senior Phillip Dappan has 127 saves and a 13.56 GAA in goal.
ONU Statistical Leaders:
| Goals | Assists | Points | Shots | Ground Balls | ||||||||||||||
| 1. | Marous | 28 | 1. | Marous | 28 | 1. | Marous | 56 | 1. | Marous | 54 | 1. | Krogman | 23 | ||||
| 2. | Weese | 15 | 2. | St. Croix | 16 | 2. | St. Croix | 25 | 2. | Weese | 48 | M.Groves | 23 | |||||
| 3. | Giles | 14 | 3. | Pavone | 12 | 3. | Pavone | 21 | 3. | Pavone | 43 | Peoples | 23 |
All-Time Series: Ohio Northern leads the all-time series between the two schools by a 2-0 margin ... ONU won the 2016 meeting 16-7 and last year's game 18-5.
ONU head coach Nat St. Laurent: St. Laurent in his third season at ONU with a 26-15 record, a winning percentage of .634.
