Men's Lacrosse: Ohio Northern (10-1 Overall, 3-0 OAC) at Heidelberg (7-4 Overall, 1-2 OAC)
Wednesday, April 11, 2018, 7 pm - Hoernemann Stadium, Tiffin, Ohio
Wednesday's Preview: Ohio Northern is off to its best start in program history and is riding a 7-game winning streak ... ONU has now had a winning streak of six or more games in each of its 3 varsity seasons, including a school record 8-game streak last season ... ONU is coming off a 17-0 victory over Muskingum on Saturday at Dial-Roberson Stadium ... The game was the first shutout in the 3-year history of the program ... Thirteen ONU players scored at least one goal and 15 players posted at least one point for the Polar Bears, led by sophomore Cameron Marous with two goals and four assists for six points ... Juniors Nicholas Groves and Max Weese and sophomore Shane Olsen each scored twice ... Through 11 games this season, Marous has a team-best 30 goals and leads the OAC with 32 assists and 62 points on the year ... Weese is second in the team with 17 goals and sophomore Kevin Giles in third with 15 goals ... Junior Noah St. Croix has 10 goals and is second on the team with 18 assists and 28 points ... Marous is ONU's all-time career leader with 66 goals, 56 assists and 122 points ... Junior Alex Pizarro is 7-1 with 43 saves and a 5.84 GAA and junior Andrew Markell is 3-0 with 23 saves and a 3.38 GAA in goal ... Heidelberg enters the contest off a 24-7 victory over LaRoche (Wis.) on Saturday ... Senior Matt Wernerspach led the Student Princes with six goals ... Sophomore Nick Selfridge scored five goals and added three assists. Brock Hodson, Noah Messerall, and Patrick McCarthy all recorded hat tricks, with Hodson registering three assists as well ... Through 11 games this season, Wernerspach leads the team and is tied for second in the OAC with 35 goals ... He also has 11 assists and a team-best 46 points ... Selfridge is second with 31 goals and 40 points and Patrick McCarthy has 22 goals, has a team-best 13 assists and has 35 points ... Senior Phillip Dappan has 123 saves and an 8.56 GAA in goal.
ONU Statistical Leaders:
Goals | Assists | Points | Shots | Ground Balls | ||||||||||||||
1. | Marous | 30 | 1. | Marous | 32 | 1. | Marous | 62 | 1. | Marous | 60 | 1. | Peoples | 26 | ||||
2. | Weese | 17 | 2. | St. Croix | 18 | 2. | St. Croix | 28 | 2. | Weese | 54 | 2. | Krogman | 25 | ||||
3. | Giles | 15 | 3. | Pavone | 12 | 3. | Pavone | 21 | 3. | Pavone | 44 | Smith | 25 | |||||
Weese | 21 |
All-Time Series: Ohio Northern leads the all-time series between the two schools by a 1-0 margin ... ONU won the 2017 meeting 17-3.
ONU head coach Nat St. Laurent: St. Laurent in his third season at ONU with a 27-15 record, a winning percentage of .643.