Men's Lacrosse: Ohio Northern (9-2 Overall, 5-0 OAC) at John Carroll (11-1 Overall, 5-0 OAC)
Friday, April 15, 2022, 1 p.m. - Don Shula Stadium, University Heights, Ohio
Friday's Game: Ohio Northern will play its penultimate regular season road game on Friday with a 1 pm contest at John Carroll in a battle of league unbeatens at Don Shula Stadium ... Friday's winner will stay on top of the OAC and will clinch a spot in the 6-team OAC Tournament April 30-May 7 ... ONU has clinched another winning season, giving it winning seasons in all seven campaigns since being founded as a varsity program in 2016 ... Northern is riding a 6-game winning streak, which includes a 9-4 win over Marietta last Saturday ... Sophomore Sebastian Michaud tied his career high with four goals and junior Cole Zaferakis had six saves in goal to lead Ohio Northern ... Through 11 games this season, Michaud leads a balanced scoring attack with 20 goals and 29 points to go with with 9 assists ... Senior Ben Gawronski is second with 17 goals and 25 points ... Junior Riley O'Neal has a team-high 11 assists ... In all, 26 different players have scored at least one goal this season ... Zaferakis is 9-2 with 73 saves, an 7.40 GAA and a .537 save percentage this season ... In his 31-game career, Zaferakis ranks second all-time in ONU history with 261 saves, 21 wins and 1530:58 minutes of playing time ... He is also fourth with an 8.43 GAA ... Senior Bradley Griffin is fifth in ONU history with 42 career caused turnovers ... John Carroll is riding a 5-game winning streak, which includes a 29-0 victory at Wilmington last Saturday and a 29-1 win at Heidelberg on April 6 ... JCU's only loss this season was to No. 18-ranked Denison 11-5 on March 23 ... Matt Berdysiak leads the OAC in scoring with 47 goals and is third in the league with 53 points ... Kevin Hack is third in the OAC with 35 goals and is fourth in the league with 49 points ... Brendan Whitty leads the league with 33 assists ... Jon Gaglio is 10-1 with 83 saves and a .529 save percentage in goal.
Ohio Northern Statistical Leaders:
| Goals | Assists | Points | Ground Balls |
Face Offs | Caused TOs | ||||||||||||||||
| 1. | Michaud | 20 | 1. | O'Neal | 11 | 1. | Michaud | 29 | 1. | Dittus | 38 | 1. | Dittus | 77-138 | 1. | Griffin | 20 | ||||
| 2. | Gawronski | 17 | 2. | Michaud | 9 | 2. | Gawronski | 25 | 2. | Griffin | 30 | 2. | Calderwood | 42-82 | 2. | Mitchel | 13 | ||||
| 3. | Lynn | 15 | 3. | Gawronski | 8 | 3. | Dempsey | 20 | 3. | Michaud | 22 | 3. | T.Smith | 16-18 | 3. | Falsone | 9 | ||||
| Doran | 9 |
All-Time Series: John Carroll leads the all-time series between the two schools by a 6-0 margin ... JCU won last year's meeting 17-6 in Ada.
ONU Head Coach Nat St. Laurent: St. Laurent is in his sixth season at ONU with a 64-32 record, a winning percentage of .667.