Women's Lacrosse: Albion (Mich.) (2-2 Overall) at Ohio Northern (2-2 Overall)
Thursday, March 14, 2019, 4 pm - Dial-Roberson Stadium, Ada, Ohio
Thursday's Game: Ohio Northern returns to action after its spring break trip against Albion (Mich.) at Dial-Roberson Stadium ... The game was originally scheduled for a 7 pm start, but was moved to a 4 pm start due to expected thunderstorms on Thursday evening ... The Polar Bears are coming off a school record breaking 19-2 victory at Greensboro (N.C.) last Friday ... Juniors Betsy Naugle and Jacqui Lohman scored 5 goals each and sophomore Sydney Skelding tallied a four-goal hat trick in her first game of the 2019 season ... Junior goalkeeper Kelli Hill totaled eight saves en route to her second win in net this season ... Junior Maddie Storr and Naugle rank 1-2 on ONU's all-time career scoring list with 61 and 60 goals, respectively ... Junior Rachel Shipman leads ONU with 25 career assists ... Naugle (74), Storr (72) and Shipman (72) are in the top three spots in ONU history in total points ... Lohman is ONU's career leader with 82 draw controls and senior Emily Hershberger is the career leader in caused turnovers with 84 ... The Polar Bears will take to the road for games at Siena Heights (Mich.) on Saturday, at Cleary (Mich.) on March 21 and at Trine (Ind.) on March 27 before opening OAC play March 30 at home against Mount Union ... The Britons enter Thursday's contest off a tight 13-10 loss at Chicago (Ill.) on Friday night ... Chrystelle Lopez, Darcy Muns and Destiny Okon scored three goals each for Albion ... AC trailed 9-5 at halftime, but Lopez scored and Muns added two goals to pull the Britons within one with 20 minutes left ... Lopez and Muns lead AC in scoring with 12 goals each ... Lopez also has a team-best 6 assists and 18 points.
ONU Statistical Leaders:
Goals | Assists | Points | Shots | Ground Balls | ||||||||||||||
1. | Lohman | 13 | 1. | Storr | 5 | 1. | Lohman | 13 | 1. | Lohman | 31 | 1. | Hill | 12 | ||||
2. | B.Naugle | 11 | 2. | Carter | 2 | B.Naugle | 13 | 2. | B.Naugle | 15 | 2. | Shipman | 11 | |||||
3. | McArn | 6 | Shipman | 2 | 3. | Storr | 7 | 3. | Carter | 13 | 3. | Hershberger | 7 | |||||
B.Naugle | 2 | Carter | 7 | K. Naugle | 7 | |||||||||||||
McArn | 7 |
All-Time Series: Albion leads the series between the two schools by a 1-0 margin ... AC won a home game over ONU 15-5 in 2018.
ONU head coach Beth Hemminger: Hemminger in her second season at ONU with an 18-34 record, a winning percentage of .346. She is 50-46 in six years as a head coach overall, a winning percentage of .521.