Men's Lacrosse: Ohio Northern (13-2 Overall, 6-1 OAC) at Capital (9-5 Overall, 5-2 OAC)
Saturday, April 28, 2018, 1 pm - Bernlohr Stadium, Bexley, Ohio
Saturday's Preview: Ohio Northern will wrap up its regular season with another key OAC battle at Capital on Saturday ... ONU is in a first place tie with John Carroll atop the OAC standings with 6-1 records ... Capital is tied with Otterbein in fourth place with a 5-2 mark while Baldwin Wallace has completed OAC play and is 6-2 in the league ... With a victory on Saturday, ONU would clinch at least a share of the OAC Regular Season title in just its third season as a varsity program ... Northern would also clinch a share of the OAC crown if JCU falls to Otterbein on Saturday ... Losses by ONU and JCU would leave a 5-way tie for the league title ... In that scenario, the tiebreaker to determine the four teams in next week's OAC Tournament would come down to goal differential ... The OAC Tournament will be held next week with semifinal games on Wednesday and the finals on Saturday ... The Polar Bears are coming off an 11-9 victory over Otterbein on Wednesday at Dial-Roberson Stadium ... Sophomore Shane Olsen scored his second career hat trick to lead Ohio Northern ... ONU scored four goals in a span of 5:47 in the third and fourth quarters to take a 10-8 lead ... Through 15 games this year, sophomore Cameron Marous leads the team and is 7th in the OAC with 37 goals ... He also second in the OAC with 34 assists and is fourth in the OAC with 71 points ... Junior Max Weese is second on the team with 26 goals and Olsen is third with 22 goals ... Weese is ONU's all-time leader in goals with 93, while Marous is ONU's all-time career leader in assists (58) and points (131) ... Junior Alex Pizarro has 65 saves and a 6.13 GAA and junior Andrew Markell has 25 saves and a 3.63 GAA in goal ... Capital enters Saturday's game off a 28-4 win over Wilmington on Wednesday ... Brennan O'Callaghan scored 8 goals to lead the Crusaders ... The score was tied at 3-3 11 minutes into the game when Capital scored 17 consecutive goals to lead 20-3 at halftime ... O'Callaghan leads the team and the OAC in scoring with 61 goals and 82 points ... C.J. Hughes is second with 44 goals and 20 assists ... Senior Cole Palmby has 120 saves, a 9.70 GAA and a 9-5 record in goal.
ONU Statistical Leaders:
Goals | Assists | Points | Shots | Ground Balls | ||||||||||||||
1. | Marous | 37 | 1. | Marous | 34 | 1. | Marous | 71 | 1. | Marous | 82 | 1. | Krogman | 37 | ||||
2. | Weese | 26 | 2. | St. Croix | 23 | 2. | St. Croix | 34 | 2. | Weese | 78 | Smith | 37 | |||||
3. | Olsen | 22 | 3. | Pavone | 14 | Weese | 34 | 3. | Pavone | 61 | 3. | Peoples | 31 | |||||
Olsen | 61 |
All-Time Series: Capital leads the series between the two schools by a 2-0 margin ... CU won 15-5 in 2016 and 12-8 in 2017.
ONU head coach Nat St. Laurent: St. Laurent in his third season at ONU with a 30-16 record, a winning percentage of .652.