Women's Tennis: Cedarville (1-2 Overall) at Ohio Northern (1-0 Overall)
Tuesday, Sept. 20, 2022, 3:30 pm - West Campus Courts, Ada, Ohio
Tuesday's Preview: Ohio Northern will continue its 2022-23 fall season with a 3:30 pm match against NCAA Division II foe Cedarville at West Campus Courts ... The Polar Bears opened their season with a 6-3 home victory over Adrian (Mich.) on Sept. 3 ... The NCAA mandated a 7-point scoring system this season for Division II schools, joining the NCAA Division I schools who have been using the scoring system for many years ... The NCAA Division III schools are still using the 9-point system ... Ohio Northern is led by freshmen Jenna Bell and Abby Cruser, sophomore Katie O'Connell, and junior Olivia Kesner who are all 1-0 in singles matches this season ... The doubles teams of Bell and Cruser and Julianne Sheldon and O'Connell lead the Polar Bears at 1-0 ... Northern is 4-2 in singles matches and 2-1 in doubles matches on the young season ... CU has fallen to Indiana-East 4-3 and Wittenberg 5-2 Sept. 10 and 15, respectively ... Cedarville opened its season with a 7-0 win over Capital on Sept. 9 ... Cedarville is led by Calista Bobula and Joelle Petek who are both 3-0 in singles matches this season, as doubles team they are 1-0 ... Bobula also leads Cedarville in doubles wins at 2-0 ... Overall Cedarville is 11-7 in singles matches and 3-6 in doubles matches.
ONU Statistical Leaders:
Singles Wins | Doubles Wins | Overall Wins | ||||||||
1. | Bell | 1-0 | 1. | Bell | 1-0 | 1. | Bell | 2-0 | ||
Cruser | 1-0 | Cruser | 1-0 | Cruser | 2-0 | |||||
Kesner | 1-0 | Sheldon | 1-0 | O'Connell | 2-0 | |||||
O'Connell | 1-0 | O'Connell | 1-0 |
Series Record: Ohio Northern leads the all-time series between the two schools by a 9-7-1 margin ... ONU won the first nine meetings from 1978-84, only to see the Yellow Jackets go 7-0-1 from 1989-2001.
Interim Head Coach Sean Swisher: Swisher is in his first season as interim head coach and has a 1-0 record.