Men's Soccer: Ohio Northern (1-3-1 Overall, 1-3-1 OAC) at Heidelberg (0-5-0 Overall, 0-5-0 OAC)
Thursday, April 1, 2021, 7 p.m. - Hoernemann Stadium, Tiffin, Ohio
Thursday's Preview: Thursday night's contest will be the sixth of nine matches of the Ohio Northern men's soccer team's abbreviated 2020-21 schedule ... The Polar Bears will play a round-robin OAC schedule from March 14-April 11 with the 6-team OAC Tournament on April 13-18 ... 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 ... Northern is coming off a 2-1 double overtime loss to league-leading John Carroll on Sunday ...Freshman Cade Winchester headed in a pass from freshman Ryan Augustine with 2:26 left before intermission to tie the match at 1-1 ... JCU got the winner with ... Juniors Levi King and Seth Gundlach lead the Polar Bears in scoring this season with 6 points each ... King has 3 goals and Gundlach has 2 goals and 2 assists ... Senior Zach Yoder is third scoring with four points on one goal and two assists ... King leads all active players with 22 career goals, 13 career assists and 57 career points ... He also has a team-best 22 shots this season ... Junior John Lombardo is 22-13-4 with 129 saves and a 1.09 GAA in 40 career matches for ONU ... His 129 saves rank him fourth all-time in ONU history ... He also ranks third all-time with 13 career shutouts ... The Polar Bears will return to action on Monday with a 7 pm road contest at Capital at Bernlohr Stadium ... Heidelberg is still looking for its first win of the season after falling to Wilmington, Capital, Marietta, Baldwin Wallace and Otterbein this season ... HU is coming off a 1-0 overtime loss at Otterbein on Sunday ... OU scored 59 seconds into overtime to notch the win.
ONU Statistical Leaders:
| Goals | Assists | Points | Saves | GAA | ||||||||||||||
| 1. | King | 3 | 1. | Yoder | 2 | 1. | King | 6 | 1. | Lombardo | 11 | 1. | Ellis | 0.00 | ||||
| 2. | Gundlach | 2 | Gundlach | 2 | Gundlach | 6 | 2. | Ellis | 4 | 2. | Lombardo | 1.36 | ||||||
| 3. | Yoder | 1 | 3. | Kern | 1 | 3. | Yoder | 4 | ||||||||||
| Kern | 1 | Augustine | 1 | |||||||||||||||
| Winchester | 1 |
Series Record: Ohio Northern leads the all-time series between the two schools by a 39-8-4 margin ... ONU is 18-5-1 at Tiffin ... ONU has won five straight and 10 of 11 in the series, including a 2-1 overtime victory in 2019 at Tiffin.
Head Coach Chris Matejka: Matejka is in his second season as head coach of the Ohio Northern men's soccer program ... He has a 14-9-4 record, a winning percentage of .568.