Men's Lacrosse: Baldwin Wallace (4-0 Overall, 2-0 OAC) at Ohio Northern (3-1 Overall, 2-0 OAC)
Saturday, March 20, 2021, 1 p.m. - Dial-Roberson Stadium, Ada, Ohio
Wednesday's Preview: The Polar Bears continue their abbreviated 2021 season with an OAC home game against Baldwin Wallace on Saturday at Dial-Roberson Stadium ... 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 ... Each OAC school will play four other league schools in non-conference games ... A limited number of spectators will be allowed to attend the games based on the OAC's COVID-19 policy ... Each player will receive two admissions each game ... No tickets will be available to the general public ... The Polar Bears are coming off a 10-9 non-conference loss to Capital on Wednesday ... Senior Pat Berthelsen-Leon had 4 goals and 1 assist to lead Northern ... Senior Cameron Marous is ONU's all-time career leader with 124 goals, 99 assists and 223 points ... He leads the OAC with 13 assists and 19 points to go with 6 goals and 10 ground balls this year ... Senior Joe O'Connell leads the team with 7 goals ... Sophomore Cole Zaferakis is 3-1 with 23 saves and a 6.91 GAA in goal ... Freshman Chad Calderwood is 24-of-34 (.706) and senior Preston Victory is 23-of-36 (.639) on faceoffs this year ... The Yellow Jackets are coming off a 30-4 win over Heidelberg on Wednesday ... Freshman Jake Nanosky and freshman Keaton Trout had 5 goals each ... BW has scored 61 goals in the last two games ... Freshman Gunnar MacMillan, freshman Zackary Kroeger and Nanosky rank second and tied for third in the OAC with 13, 10 and 10 goals, respectively.
Ohio Northern Statistical Leaders:
Goals | Assists | Points | Shots | Ground Balls | ||||||||||||||
1. | O'Connell | 7 | 1. | Marous | 13 | 1. | Marous | 19 | 1. | Giles | 31 | 1. | Stoeffler | 11 | ||||
2. | Marous | 6 | 2. | Dempsey | 4 | 2. | O'Connell | 9 | 2. | Marous | 30 | 2. | Marous | 10 | ||||
3. | Giles | 6 | Gawronski | 4 | 3. | Schmeling | 7 | 3. | Berthelsen-Leon | 20 | 3. | Mullin | 9 | |||||
Dempsey | 7 | Schmelling | 20 | |||||||||||||||
Giles | 7 |
All-Time Series: Baldwin Wallace leads the all-time series between the two schools by a 4-1 margin ... Ohio Northern is 0-2 at home against BW ... BW won the 2019 battle 16-14 in Berea.
ONU Head Coach Nat St. Laurent: St. Laurent is in his sixth season at ONU with a 51-25 record, a winning percentage of .671.