Men's Lacrosse: Capital (12-1 Overall, 6-0 OAC) at Ohio Northern (11-2 Overall, 5-1 OAC)
Friday, April 19, 2019, 7 p.m. - Dial-Roberson Stadium, Ada, Ohio
Friday's Preview: Ohio Northern enters Friday night's game in a 3-way tie for second place in the OAC with Baldwin Wallace and Otterbein and one game behind Capital ... With a victory, ONU would move into a first place tie in the OAC ... The Polar Bears are coming off a 24-5 victory at Marietta on Saturday ... 21 different players scored goals to lead ONU, which got 2 goals and 2 assists from junior Samuel Neff, 2 goals and an assist from junior Cameron Marous and 2 goals from senior Mitch Groves ... Through 13 games this season, Marous leads the team with 32 goals, 20 assists and 52 points ... Senior Anthony Pavone is second with 20 goals and senior Nicholas Groves is third with 15 goals ... Senior Alex Pizarro is 10-2 with 69 saves and a league-best 7.97 GAA in goal ... Pizarro is also fifth in the OAC with a 51.5 save percentage ... Senior Preston Victory leads the team with 43 GBs and 91 faceoffs and senior Drew Fox leads the team with 23 CTs ... Fox is ONU's all-time career leader with 122 CTs ... Senior Max Weese (108), Marous (107) and Pavone (81) are 1-2-3 on ONU's all-time career goal scoring list ... Marous is ONU's all-time leader in assists (80), points (187) and hat tricks (19) ... An amazing 31 different players have scored goals for Ohio Northern this season ... The Crusaders enter Friday's contest in first place in the OAC and could put itself in the drivers seat to win the title with a victory over ONU ... CU is coming off an 11-7 win over Otterbein on Saturday in a battle of unbeatens ... Luke Wyatt and Zack Heflin had 3 goals each and Jack Scharner had a goal and 4 assists for CU ... T.J. Johnson stopped 11 of 18 shots on goal ... C.J. Hughes leads the OAC with 46 goals, is second with 67 points and is fourth with 21 assists ... Johnson leads the OAC with a .585 save percentage and is second with 138 saves and an 8.25 GAA.
ONU Statistical Leaders:
| Goals | Assists | Points | Shots | Ground Balls | ||||||||||||||
| 1. | Marous | 32 | 1. | Marous | 20 | 1. | Marous | 52 | 1. | Marous | 74 | 1. | Victory | 43 | ||||
| 2. | Pavone | 20 | 2. | St. Croix | 9 | 2. | Pavone | 26 | 2. | Pavone | 58 | 2. | DiMarco | 31 | ||||
| 3. | N.Groves | 15 | O'Connell | 9 | 3. | O'Connell | 21 | 3. | Weese | 56 | 3. | Pfister | 28 | |||||
All-Time Series: CU leads the series between the two schools by a 2-1 margin ... ONU won last year's contest 11-10 in Bexley.
ONU Head Coach Nat St. Laurent: St. Laurent is in his third season at ONU with a 42-19 record, a winning percentage of .689.
