Men's Lacrosse: Ohio Northern (2-0 Overall, 1-0 OAC) at Muskingum (0-2 Overall, 0-1 OAC)
Saturday, March 13, 2020, 1 p.m. - McConagha Stadium, New Concord, Ohio
Saturday's Preview: The Polar Bears will continue their abbreviated 2021 season with a 1 pm contest at Muskingum on Saturday ... Ohio Northern will play a round-robin OAC schedule with games against the other nine league schools on nine consecutive Saturdays to determine the OAC Regular Season title and the seeding for the OAC Tournament ... ONU will also play Otterbein, Heidelberg, Wilmington and Baldwin Wallace in additional non-conference games ... Ohio Northern started OAC play last Saturday with a 25-6 victory at Heidelberg ... Senior Cameron Marous dished out a school record seven assists and senior Joe O'Connell had a 5-goal hat trick to lead ONU ... Marous broke the single-game record of six assists he shared with Steven Slagle ... Marous is an Academic All-American and is ONU's all-time career leading scorer with 119 goals, 96 assists and 215 points ... Senior Preston Victory is third in ONU history with 240 career faceoff wins and his .619 winning percentage is the best in school history ... Sophomore Cole Zaferakis is 2-0 with 8 saves and a 5.60 GAA in goal ... The Muskies are 0-2 on the year, having dropped an 11-7 decision to Marietta on Feb. 27 and an 11-3 decision to Mount Union last Saturday ... Freshman Spencer Zecchini leads the Muskies with 4 goals this season.
Ohio Northern Statistical Leaders:
Goals | Assists | Points | Shots | Ground Balls | ||||||||||||||
1. | O'Connell | 7 | 1. | Marous | 10 | 1. | Marous | 11 | 1. | Giles | 19 | 1. | Victory | 7 | ||||
2. | Giles | 4 | 2. | Dempsey | 2 | 2. | O'Connell | 9 | 2. | O'Connell | 16 | 2. | Giles | 6 | ||||
3. | Schmeling | 3 | Schmeling | 2 | Schmeling | 5 | 3. | Schmeling | 13 | 3. | Reimer | 5 | ||||||
O'Neal | 2 | Stoeffler | 5 | |||||||||||||||
O'Connell | 2 |
All-Time Series: Ohio Northern leads the all-time series between the two schools by a 4-0 margin ... Ohio Northern is 3-0 at home and 1-0 on the road ... ONU won last year's battle 25-3 in Ada.
ONU Head Coach Nat St. Laurent: St. Laurent is in his sixth season at ONU with a 50-24 record, a winning percentage of .676.