Men's Lacrosse: Elmhurst (Ill.) (0-0 Overall) at Ohio Northern (1-0 Overall)
Saturday, February 15, 2020, 2 p.m. - Dial-Roberson Stadium, Ada, Ohio
Saturday's Preview: Ohio Northern opened its 2020 season with a solid 8-6 victory over Southern Virginia on a frigid Friday afternoon at Dial-Roberson Stadium ... Senior Cameron Marous had his 15th career Hat Trick and freshman Cole Zaferakis had 17 saves in goal in his collegiate debut to lead Ohio Northern ... Today's game marks the first back-to-back games in program history ... Northern is looking to go 2-0 for just the second time in its five varsity seasons ... EC edged ONU 12-10 last season's opening game ... Marous leads the team in scoring with 3 goals and 3 points this season ... Junior Joe O'Connell is second with 2 goals and senior Pat Berthelsen-Leon has 2 points on 1 goal and 1 assist ... Zaferakis has 17 saves, a .739 save percentage and a 6.00 GAA in goal ... ONU is 19-6 all-time in Dial-Roberson Stadium, outscoring its opponents an average of 18.4-8.1 ... Elmhurst enters the 2020 season looking to build off a historic 2019 campaign ... EC went 11-6 overall and finished second in the CCIW with a 5-1 league mark ... The Blue Jays also reached the finals of the CCIW Tournament for the first time in school history ... Juniors Marcus Yandall and Andrew Frerich are returning All-CCIW honorees ... Yandall leads all EC returners with 38 goals, 41 assists and 79 points a year ago ... Frerich had 22 goals and 31 points and sophomore Nate Yuhas had 13 goals and 21 points last season ... Junior Jake Delgado was 5-3 with an 8.96 GAA in goal last season.
ONU Statistical Leaders:
Goals | Assists | Points | Shots | Ground Balls | ||||||||||||||
1. | Marous | 3 | 1. | Bertelson-Leon | 1 | 1. | Marous | 3 | 1. | Marous | 7 | 1. | Marous | 6 | ||||
2. | O'Connell | 2 | Gawronski | 1 | 2. | O'Connell | 2 | 2. | O'Connell | 7 | 2. | C.Zaferakis | 5 | |||||
3. | Moran | 1 | Bertelson-Leon | 2 | 3. | Moran | 5 | J.Smith | 5 | |||||||||
Bertelson-Leon | 1 | Bertelson-Leon | ||||||||||||||||
Gosnell | 1 |
All-Time Series: Elmhurst leads the series between the two schools by a 1-0 margin, winning 12-10 in Ada in 2019.
ONU Head Coach Nat St. Laurent: St. Laurent is in his third season at ONU with a 45-22 record, a winning percentage of .672.