Men's Soccer: Ohio Northern (0-0-0 Overall, 0-0-0 OAC) at Marietta (0-0-0 Overall, 0-0-0 OAC)
Sunday, Mar. 14, 2021, 1 p.m. - Marietta Field, Marietta, Ohio
| 2020-21 Season Preview story |
Sunday's Preview: The Ohio Northern men's soccer team will open its 2020-21 season on Sunday with a 2 pm contest at Marietta ... ONU's abbreviated 2020-21 season will consist of a round-robin OAC schedule from March 14-April 11 with the OAC Tournament April 13-18 ... Second-year head coach Chris Matejka welcomes back 17 lettermen and six starters are back for the abbreviated 2020 campaign ... Junior All-Region honoree Levi King is a two-year starter in the midfield and leads the long list of returners for ONU ... King, senior defender Josh Grant and junior keeper John Lombardo will serve as tri-captains ... Marietta was 10-9-1 overal and 4-4-1 in the OAC in 2019 ...
Returning ONU Statistical Leaders (2019 Stats):
| Goals | Assists | Points | Saves | GAA | ||||||||||||||
| 1. | King | 9 | 1. | King | 5 | 1. | King | 23 | 1. | Lombardo | 71 | 1. | Lombardo | 1.01 | ||||
| 2. | Gundlach | 7 | 2. | George | 3 | 2. | Gundlach | 16 | ||||||||||
| 2. | Yoder | 2 | 3. | Gundlach | 2 | 3. | Yoder | 5 | ||||||||||
| George | 5 |
Series Record: Ohio Northern leads the all-time series between the two schools by a 23-14-2 margin ... ONU is 12-8-2 at home and 11-6-0 at Marietta ... The two teams split the series last year, with ONU winning 5-1 at Marietta and MC winning 2-0 at ONU in the OAC Tournament quarterfinals.
Head Coach Chris Matejka: Matejka is in his second season as head coach of the Ohio Northern men's soccer program ... He has a 13-6-3 record, a winning percentage of .659.