Men's Soccer: Mount Union (4-4-0 Overall) at Ohio Northern (5-3-1 Overall) - OAC Tournment Quarterfinals
Tuesday, April 13, 2021, 7 p.m. - Kerscher Stadium, Ada, Ohio
| Match Program (.pdf) | OAC Tournament page |
Tuesday's Preview: Tuesday night's contest between No. 5 seeded Mount Union and No. 4 seeded Ohio Northern will be a quarterfinal round of the 6-team OAC Tournament ... The winner will play at either top-seeded John Carroll or No. 2 seeded Marietta in the semifinals on Thursday ... If No. 3 seeded Wilmington tops No. 6 Capital in the other quarterfinal match, the ONU-MtU winner will play at John Carroll ... If CU wins, the ONU-MtU winner will play at Marietta ... 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 ... Ohio Northern and Mount Union recently met on Sunday in the regular season finale for each team at Kerscher Stadium with ONU prevailing 2-1 ... Freshman Cade Winchester gave Ohio Northern a 1-0 lead with an unassisted goal with 6:57 left in the first half ... He then assisted junior Levi King on a goal 6:45 into the second half and it was 2-0 ... Mount Union scored just 49 seconds later to pull within 2-1 ... The Polar Bears were able to manage Mount Union's pressure late in the game to finish the victory ... King leads the Polar Bears and the OAC with 6 goals and is second with 12 points this season ... Juniors Bryan Kern and Seth Gundlach have 3 goals and 2 assists for 8 points each ... King leads all active players with 24 career goals, 13 career assists and 61 career points ... Senior Zach Yoder leads the OAC with 4 assists ... Junior John Lombardo is 26-13-4 with 137 saves and a 1.04 GAA in 44 career matches for ONU ... He ranks fourth all-time at ONU with 15 career shutouts ... Mount Union is looking for its first-ever OAC Tournament title ... Junior Rylan Wikle leads the team and is third in the OAC with 4 goals and is fourth in the OAC with 8 points ... Four other Purple Raiders have 1 goal each ... Junior Mikey Contreras is 4-4 with 29 saves and a 1.25 GAA in goal.
ONU Statistical Leaders:
Goals | Assists | Points | Saves | GAA | ||||||||||||||
1. | King | 6 | 1. | Yoder | 4 | 1. | King | 12 | 1. | Lombardo | 18 | 1. | Ellis | 0.84 | ||||
2. | Gundlach | 3 | 2. | Gundlach | 2 | 2. | Yoder | 8 | 2. | Ellis | 5 | 2. | Lombardo | 0.97 | ||||
Kern | 3 | Kern | 2 | Gundlach | 8 | |||||||||||||
Kern | 8 |
Series Record: Ohio Northern leads the all-time series between the two schools by a 28-13-6 margin ... ONU is 16-4-3 at Ada and is 3-1 at Kerscher Stadium ... MtU has won the last two meetings, including a 2-0 win in Ada in 2019.
Head Coach Chris Matejka: Matejka is in his second season as head coach of the Ohio Northern men's soccer program ... He has a 18-9-4 record, a winning percentage of .624.