Men's Soccer: Otterbein (3-3-1 Overall, 3-3-1 OAC) at Ohio Northern (3-3-1 Overall, 3-3-1 OAC)
Thursday, April 8, 2021, 7 p.m. - Kerscher Stadium, Ada, Ohio
Thursday's Preview: Thursday night's contest will be the eighth 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 ... Coming into the match, the Polar Bears and Cardinals are tied for fifth place in the OAC ... Either school would need a three or four seed to host a Tuesday night OAC game as those seeds host the fifth and sixth seeds ... Marietta and Mount Union currently own third and fourth place with 5-2-0 and 4-2-0 records, respectively ... Northern is coming off a 1-0 victory at Capital on Monday... Senior Zach Yoder scored the lone goal on a free kick about 25 yards out in the 72nd minute ... Juniors Levi King, Bryan Kern and Seth Gundlach lead the Polar Bears in scoring this season with 8 points each, second-best in the OAC ... King has an OAC second-best 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 leads the OAC with a team-best 27 shots this season ... Junior John Lombardo is 24-13-4 with 131 saves and a 1.06 GAA in 42 career matches for ONU ... He ranks fourth all-time at ONU with 14 career shutouts ... The Polar Bears will wrap up their regular season with a home match against Mount Union on Sunday ... Otterbein is coming off a 3-2 overtime win Monday at Muskingum ... OU's Liam Heard scored the game-winning goal 2:02 into the overtime period ... OU out-shot Muskingum 17-10 and had a 10-3 advantage in corner kicks ... Will Isaac leads the Cardinals in scoring this season with 2 goals and 5 points ... Nathan Neal is second with 1 goal and 3 points.
ONU Statistical Leaders:
| Goals | Assists | Points | Saves | GAA | ||||||||||||||
| 1. | King | 4 | 1. | Yoder | 3 | 1. | King | 8 | 1. | Lombardo | 13 | 1. | Ellis | 0.84 | ||||
| 2. | Gundlach | 3 | 2. | Gundlach | 2 | Gundlach | 8 | 2. | Ellis | 5 | 2. | Lombardo | 1.13 | |||||
| Kern | 3 | Kern | 2 | Kern | 8 |
Series Record: Otterbein leads the all-time series between the two schools by a 23-16-1 margin ... ONU is 7-13 at Ada and is 3-0 at Kerscher Stadium ... ONU has won the last two meetings, including a 3-2 win in Ada in 2019.
Head Coach Chris Matejka: Matejka is in his second season as head coach of the Ohio Northern men's soccer program ... He has a 16-9-4 record, a winning percentage of .597.
