Volleyball: Marietta (8-11 Overall, 0-0 OAC) at #16 Ohio Northern (11-3 Overall, 1-0 OAC)

Saturday, September 29, 2018, 1 pm - ONU Sports Center, Ada, Ohio

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Saturday's Preview: The #16-ranked Ohio Northern volleyball program returns home to the ONU Sports Center this Saturday, September 29 as the Polar Bears welcome in the Marietta Pioneers for a weekend Ohio Athletic Conference showdown ... Match time is set for 1 p.m. ... The Polar Bears enter the match sporting an 11-3 overall record and a 1-0 mark in the OAC ... In the team's most recent outing, Northern opened their 2018 OAC regular season slate with a 3-1 triumph at John Carroll inside the DeCarlo Center on Tuesday evening ... Former AVCA All-American selection and current junior middle hitter Chelsea Huppert and senior outside hitter McKenna Jordan guided the offensive attack as they registered 16 and 15 kills, respectively ... Meanwhile, junior defensive specialist/libero McKenna Hostetler led the team with 19 digs and five service aces in the victory ... Sophomore setter Katie Wade also registered 48 assists on the evening ... Through 14 matches this season, Huppert leads the team and is third in the OAC with 177 kills while Jordan stands second on the team with 128 kills ... Huppert, senior Josie Andres, and freshman Madi Ellis rank second, fifth, and seventh in the OAC with hitting percentages of .382, .346, and .307, respectively ... Sophomore Madison Broering leads the team and sits eighth in the OAC with 260 digs while Wade leads the Polar Bears and ranks second in assists in the OAC with an average of 10.86 per set ... As a team, Ohio Northern sits second in the conference with a .256 hitting percentage and leads the league with an average of 18.52 digs per set ... Huppert's current career hitting percentage of .346 is the third-best in ONU history ... Wade ranks 7th all-time in ONU history with 1,923 career assists ... Marietta enters the weekend contest owning an 8-11 overall record and no conference record ... The Pioneers have dropped their last four matches, including a 3-1 decision Tuesday at Wooster ... Hunter Barnes leads Marietta with 152 kills on the season while Maddie Nader has 257 assists and 24 service aces to lead the program ... Defensively, April Davis has led the way, recording 277 digs.

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All-Time Series: Saturday's meeting marks the 53rd match all-time between the two programs ... Ohio Northern holds a 52-0 all-time series advantage over the Pioneers ... Last season, the two teams met during the 2017 regular season and in the OAC Tournament quarterfinals with ONU winning both matchups 3-0.

Head Coach Kate Witte: Witte is currently in her 28th season as the head women's volleyball coach at Ohio Northern … She owns a coaching record of 704-230, a .754 win percentage, and is the school's all-time wins leader.