Men's Lacrosse: Ohio Northern (5-5 Overall, 4-3 OAC) at Wilmington (0-10 Overall, 0-6 OAC)
Saturday, April 24, 2021, 1 p.m. - Williams Stadium, Wilmington, Ohio
Saturday's Preview: The Polar Bears will play their penultimate regular season contest on Saturday with a 1 pm tilt at Wilmington ... This is the eighth of nine games in its round-robin OAC schedule with games against the other league schools on nine consecutive Saturdays to determine the OAC Regular Season title and the seeding for the 6-team OAC Tournament May 4-8 ... ONU is currently fifth in the OAC with a 4-3 mark, 1.5 games ahead of sixth place Capital, who is 2-4 ... 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 ... ONU is coming off a 9-7 loss at Baldwin Wallace on Wednesday in its final non-conference match of the season ... Seven different Polar Bears scored goals in the game ... Senior Cameron Marous leads ONU with 14 goals this season ... He is second in the OAC with 23 assists and is fourth with 37 points this year ... Senior Kevin Giles and senior Joe O'Connell are tied for second with 11 goals each ... Marous is ONU's all-time career leader with 132 goals, 109 assists and 241 points ... Giles is fifth in ONU history with 55 career goals and O'Connell is sixth with 54 career goals ... Sophomore keeper Cole Zaferakis is 5-5 with 68 saves and an 8.73 GAA in goal ... The Quakers are coming off a 16-2 loss at Muskingum on Wednesday ... Junior Austin Young leads WC in scoring with 10 goals and 11 points ... Sophomore Justen Shaw has 5 goals and freshman Jonathan Lacey has 4 goals, 3 assists and 7 points.
Ohio Northern Statistical Leaders:
Goals | Assists | Points | Shots | Ground Balls | ||||||||||||||
1. | Marous | 14 | 1. | Marous | 23 | 1. | Marous | 37 | 1. | Marous | 64 | 1. | Victory | 24 | ||||
2. | O'Connell | 11 | 2. | Dempsey | 5 | 2. | Giles | 16 | 2. | Giles | 55 | 2. | Zaferakis | 22 | ||||
Giles | 11 | 3. | Giles | 5 | 3. | O'Connell | 15 | 3. | Berthelsen-Leon | 50 | 3. | Stoeffler | 20 | |||||
Mullin | 20 |
All-Time Series: Ohio Northern leads the all-time series between the two schools by a 3-1 margin ... Ohio Northern is 1-1 at Williams Stadium ... ONU has won the last three meetings, including a 26-2 win in Ada in 2019.
ONU Head Coach Nat St. Laurent: St. Laurent is in his sixth season at ONU with a 53-29 record, a winning percentage of .646.