Women's Tennis: Ohio Northern (17-5 Overall) at Ohio Wesleyan (6-12 Overall)
Wednesday, April 27, 2022, 4:30 p.m. - Gordon Field House, Delaware, Ohio
Wednesday's Match: The Polar Bears will play their second non-conference match in as many days on Wednesday with a match at Ohio Wesleyan indoors at the Gordon Field House on OWU's campus ... The Polar Bears are coming off a thrilling 5-4 home victory over Wittenberg on Tuesday at the West Campus Courts ... Junior Regan Landis ground out a 7-6(4), 7-5 victory at No. 2 singles, breaking a 4-4 tie and lifting Ohio Northern to the victory ... Thus far this season, Landis (33-10), freshman Miranda Wills (32-13) and freshman Katie O'Connell (29-4) lead Northern in overall wins this season … O'Connell is a team-best 20-4 in singles play, while Landis is 19-4 and Wills is 18-6 … Senior Jeorgia Templin (18-3) leads ONU in doubles wins, followed by Wills (15-9) and Landis (14-6) … 6th-year senior Katie Curry is 88-21 in singles, 73-54 in doubles and is 161-55 overall in her career ... She is only two singles wins shy of tying the school record of 90 ... Curry also ranks third all-time with 161 overall wins and is seventh with 73 doubles wins ... She saw her 27-match winning streak in singles play come to an end with a loss on Tuesday ... It was her first singles loss since Sept. 8, 2019 ... The Battling Bishops are looking to snap a 3-match losing streak, which includes a 6-3 setback at Oberlin on April 20 ... Katie Lee leads OWU with an 11-5 singles record, an 11-5 doubles mark and a 22-10 record overall ... Shanzay Ali is second in singles at 10-8 and Ale Coronel-Zegarra is second in doubles with a 10-7 mark.
ONU Statistical Leaders:
Singles Wins | Doubles Wins | Overall Wins | ||||||||
1. | O'Connell | 20-4 | 1. | Templin | 18-3 | 1. | Landis | 33-10 | ||
2. | Landis | 19-4 | 2. | Wills | 15-9 | Wills | 33-15 | |||
3. | Wills | 18-6 | 3. | Landis | 14-6 | 3. | O'Connell | 29-4 |
Series Record: Ohio Wesleyan leads the all-time series between the two schools by a 16-7 margin ... ONU has won 2 of the last 3 matches, but OWU won the last meeting 5-4 in 2019 in Ada.
Interim Head Coach Mike Bonnell: Bonnell took over the program on Feb. 21 and has a 9-3 record, a winning percentage of .750 ... Bonnell is also in year six as head coach of the ONU Men's Team ... He is 71-36 coaching women's tennis overall after leading the Ohio Dominican women from 2001-05.