Softball Preview: Ohio Northern (10-5 Overall, 1-1 OAC) at Mount Union (9-7 Overall, 2-0 OAC)
Sunday, March 29, 2015, 1 pm, 23rd Street Field Field, Alliance, Ohio
Sunday's Preview: The Polar Bears travel to Alliance to take on Mount Union in an Ohio Athletic Conference match-up ... Ohio Northern enters the contest 10-5 overall, 1-1 OAC after splitting a double header with Heidelberg ... Freshman Gia Saturday led the Polar Bears in the contest going 3-for-4 with a home run and five RBI ... This season ONU is lead by Saturday who is batting .462 with 18 hits and 20 RBI .... Senior Kelly Sheridan is second on the team with a .404 average and 19 hits ... Freshman pitcher Kirsten Lightel leads ONU from the circle this season with a 6-1 record and a 1.07 ERA ... Mount Union enters the contest 9-7 overall, 2-0 OAC after dropping a double header to Case Western Reserve ... Mount Union is led this season by sophomore Olivia Schumacher hitting a .525 batting average ... Sophomore Brooke Cox is also having a strong season hitting .439 ... The Raiders are led in the circle by junior Erin Simmons who has recorded 29 strikeouts this season.
Series Record: Ohio Northern is 45-38 lifetime against the Raiders ... The Polar Bears are 19-14 when playing in Alliance.
Batting Leaders
| Batting Average |
Hits | Runs | RBI's | ||||||||||||||
| 1. | Saturday | .409 | 1. | Sheridan |
19 | 1. | Martin | 14 | 1. | Saturday |
20 | ||||||
| 2. | Sheridan |
.404 | 2. | Saturday | 18 | 2. | Saturday |
11 | 2. | Martin | 10 | ||||||
| 3. |
Hollar | .371 |
3. | Lahti | 16 | 3. | Hollar | 10 | 3. | Huddle | 7 | ||||||
| Sheridan | 10 |
Pitching Leaders
| Wins |
ERA | Strikeouts |
|||||||||||
| 1. | Lightel | 6 | 1. | Lightel |
1.07 | 1. | Lightel | 48 | |||||
| 2. | Ordean | 3 | 2. | Ordean | 3.55 | 2. | Burden | 25 | |||||
| 3. |
Burden |
1 |
3. |
Burden |
4.15 | 3. |
Ordean |
15 |
ONU head coach Ali Hess: Hess in her second season at ONU with an overall record of 33-24.