Men's Soccer: Ohio Northern (2-3-1 Overall, 2-3-1 OAC) at Capital (2-4-0 Overall, 2-4-0 OAC)
Monday, April 5, 2021, 7 p.m. - Bernlohr Stadium, Bexley, Ohio
Monday's Preview: Thursday night's contest will be the seventh 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 6-2 victory at Heidelberg on Thursday ... Junior Bryan Kern scored a pair of goals and dished out an assist to lead Ohio Northern ... Kern and juniors Levi King and Seth Gundlach lead the Polar Bears in scoring this season with 8 points each ... King has 4 goals and Kern and Gundlach have 3 goals and 2 assists ... King leads all active players with 23 career goals, 13 career assists and 59 career points ... He also has a team-best 24 shots this season ... Junior John Lombardo is 23-13-4 with 130 saves and a 1.09 GAA in 41 career matches for ONU ... He ranks third all-time at ONU with 13 career shutouts ... The Polar Bears will wrap up their regular season with home matches against Otterbein on Thursday and Mount Union on Sunday ... Capital is coming off a 1-0 loss at Muskingum on Thursday ... The Muskies scored just 1:20 into the match and made the 1-0 lead stand up ... CU out-shot Muskingum 17-14 and had a 7-3 advantage in corner kicks ... Jack Francisco leads the Crusaders in scoring this season with 3 goals and 7 points ... Jack Kossoudji is second with 2 goals and 4 points.
ONU Statistical Leaders:
| Goals | Assists | Points | Saves | GAA | ||||||||||||||
| 1. | King | 4 | 1. | Yoder | 3 | 1. | King | 8 | 1. | Lombardo | 12 | 1. | Ellis | 0.84 | ||||
| 2. | Gundlach | 3 | 2. | Gundlach | 2 | Gundlach | 8 | 2. | Ellis | 5 | 2. | Lombardo | 1.34 | |||||
| Kern | 3 | Kern | 2 | Kern | 8 |
Series Record: Ohio Northern leads the all-time series between the two schools by a 25-14-5 margin ... ONU is 13-4-4 at Bexley ... The two teams have split the last 10 meetings, going 4-4-2 since 2013.
Head Coach Chris Matejka: Matejka is in his second season as head coach of the Ohio Northern men's soccer program ... He has a 15-9-4 record, a winning percentage of .583.