Volleyball: #14 Ohio Northern (15-1 Overall, 4-0 OAC) at Wilmington (3-18 Overall, 0-3 OAC)

Wednesday, October 13, 2021, 7 p.m. – Fred Raizk Arena, Wilmington, Ohio

Wednesday's Preview: No. 14 Ohio Northern enters Wednesday's match riding a 6-game win streak … Northern is one of 3 unbeaten teams in Ohio Athletic Conference play, joining Otterbein and Heidelberg ... The Polar Bears are coming off of last Wednesday's 26-28, 25-19, 25-21, 23-25, 15-11 home win over Baldwin Wallace … Freshman Taylor Baxter led the way with 15 kills and 7 blocks while freshman Rachel Jennings added a career-high 41 digs … With 38 assists in that game, senior Kiki Carle moved into 10th place on the Polar Bears' all-time career assist leaders with 1,595 … Carle ranks sixth in the OAC in assists with 437 and needs 177 more to tie Jill Jolliff for ninth place on ONU's all-time list … ONU has matched its second-best start in program history through 16 games, tying the 15-1 record from the 1979 season … Northern won a school-record 18 straight games to open the 1990 season … Northern is currently hitting .260 as a team with 13.5 kills, 18.2 digs, 12.5 assists, 2.1 blocks and 1.6 aces per set … Baxter leads the team with 172 kills and an OAC-high 61 blocks while Jennings has a team-high 33 aces, which ranks second in the OAC … Senior Hannah Irmer leads ONU with 305 digs, which ranks sixth in the OAC … Freshman Erin Wagner (.404), Baxter (.375) and senior Melina Woods (.303) rank first, second and fifth, respectively, in the OAC in hitting percentage… Irmer has 1,205 career digs, which is 203 short of tying Molly Schrader's 1,408 for 10th on the program's all-time leaderboard in that category … Wilmington enters Wednesday's match on a 6-game losing streak, including Saturday's 3-0 loss at Mount Union … WC has a team hitting percentage of .143 and is averaging 9.2 kills, 15.8 digs, 8.6 assists, 0.9 blocks and 1.4 aces per set … Freshman Andie Dolven ranks fourth in the OAC in assists (520) while sophomore Blake O'Brien ranks fifth in digs (323) … Sophomore Sofia Thomas leads the Quakers in kills (160).

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All-Time Series: Ohio Northern leads the all-time series with Wilmington by a 30-0 margin, including 13-0 in Wilmington … The teams' last meeting was a doubleheader in Ada in March as part of the delayed 2020 season, and the Polar Bears won both games by 3-0 scores … The Quakers haven't won a set against ONU since 2012.

Head Coach Katie Kuhn: Kuhn is in her second season as the head women's volleyball coach at Ohio Northern with a 28-4 record (.875 winning percentage), including 17-3 (.850 winning percentage) in OAC play.