Volleyball: Muskingum (17-7 Overall) at Ohio Northern (16-9 Overall) – OAC Tournament Quarterfinals
Tuesday, Nov. 1, 2022, 7 p.m. – ONU Sports Center, Ada, Ohio
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Tuesday's Preview: The Polar Bears finished in a three-way tie for second place in the OAC standings with John Carroll and Marietta and will be the No. 3 seed in this week's OAC Tournamernt … ONU is coming off a 5-set victory over Marietta and a 4-set loss to Chicago (Ill.) in a tri-match on Saturday … Sophomore Erin Wagner led ONU with 29 kills in the two matches ... Junior Ava Ehlinger added 22 kills and sophomore Lauren James had 21 kills and a .403 hitting percentage on the day … Sophomore Grace Conrad dished out 86 assists and 31 digs … Wagner ranks fourth in the OAC with 318 kills and is ninth with a .286 hitting percentage … Sophomore Sonia Dahlin and Ehlinger rank second and third on the team with 225 and 210 kills, respectively … Sophomore Rachel Jennings ranks fourth in the OAC with 469 digs … Conrad ranks sixth in the OAC with 737 assists … James ranks second in the OAC with 80 blocks … Fifth-year senior Hannah Irmer has 1,597 career digs, which ranks ninth on the program's all-time list and is 15th among active Division III players ... Muskingum enters Thursday's match as the No. 6 seed … MU is coming off a 3-0 loss at John Carroll and a 3-1 win over Kenyon in its regular season finale on Saturday ... The Muskies were led by senior Emma Dunham with 22 kills in the two matches, including 13 against the Owls ... Senior Emma Conrad dished out 67 assists and had 22 digs on the day ... Dunham is fifth in the OAC with a .301 hitting percentage, while Conrad is fourth with 764 assists ... Senior Gracie Collins is eighth in the OAC with a team-high 399 digs.
ONU Statistical Leaders:
| Kills | Blocks | Aces | Digs | Assists | ||||||||||||||
| 1. | Wagner | 318 | 1. | James | 80 | 1. | Dahlin | 33 | 1. | Jennings | 469 | 1. | Conrad | 740 | ||||
| 2. | Dahlin | 225 | 2. | Dahlin | 61 | H.Irmer | 33 | 2. | H. Irmer | 287 | 2. | Hensley | 286 | |||||
| 3. | Ehlinger | 210 | 3. | Wagner | 59 | 3. | H. Irmer | 32 | 3. | G. Irmer | 192 | 3. | Jennings | 55 |
All-Time Series: Ohio Northern leads the all-time series with Muskingum 63-15 margin ... The Polar Bears are 14-5 against MU in the OAC Tournament .... Northern holds a record of 27-5 in Ada and is 12-0 at home against the Muskies in the OAC Tournament … MU won the regular season meeting 3-1 in New Concord on Oct. 22.
OAC Tournament History: Ohio Northern is seeking to extend its league-leading OAC Tournament titles to 23 with a victory this season ... In 38 previous OAC Tournaments, ONU is 74-15 with 22 titles and seven runner-up finishes ... Northern has made it to the championship game 29 times and to the semifinals 36 times in the tournament's 38-year history ... The Polar Bears defeated Otterbein in a 3 sets in 2021 to claim its latest OAC Tournament title ... Mount Union is making its 35th appearance in the OAC Tournament and has a 32-29 record in the event … The Fighting Muskies have won the tournament five times (2002, 1999, 1998, 1992 and 1998) and have 8 runner-up finishes ... Muskingum has won its last four quarterfinal matches, including a 3-0 sweep of John Carroll last season.
Head Coach Katie Kuhn: Kuhn is in her third season as the head women's volleyball coach at Ohio Northern … She owns a 50-17 career record for a winning percentage of .746 and is 26-7 (.788 winning percentage) in Ohio Athletic Conference games … She was named OAC Coach of the Year and AVCA Region 7 Coach of the Year in 2021 after leading the Polar Bears to OAC Regular Season and Tournament championships.
