Men’s Soccer: Marietta (5-9-3 Overall, 3-5-0 OAC) at #13 Ohio Northern (12-2-3 Overall, 7-0-1 OAC)

Saturday, Oct. 29, 2022, 7 p.m. — Kerscher Stadium, Ada, Ohio

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Saturday's Preview: No. 13 Ohio Northern closes out its regular-season schedule on Saturday hosting Ohio Athletic Conference foe Marietta on Senior Night … A Senior Night ceremony will be held following the game … ONU leads the OAC standings and has clinched a top-two seed that comes with a first-round bye and home semifinal match in next week's OAC Tournament … The Polar Bears currently lead second-place John Carroll by one point in the standings … The top six teams in the conference standings qualify for the OAC Tournament, and seedings will be announced on Saturday night … ONU is looking to complete its fourth unbeaten conference season in program history, joining 2009, 2011 and 2012 … The Polar Bears are looking to secure their ninth OAC Regular Season Championship, and first since 2015 … Northern is ranked No. 13 nationally in this week's United Soccer Coaches Top 25 poll … ONU is ranked No. 2 in this week's United Soccer Coaches Region VII poll behind Kenyon, which is ranked No. 3 nationally … Additionally, Northern is ranked No. 22 in this week's D3soccer.com Top 25 poll … The Polar Bears are coming off Wednesday's 5-1 win at Baldwin Wallace that extended their current win streak to six games and their unbeaten streak to 14 games … The 14-game unbeaten streak matches one from the team's 2006 season for second-best all-time behind a 19-game streak in 2016 … Fifth-year senior Bryan Kern scored two goals to lead ONU on Wednesday … The Polar Bears also got one goal each from fifth-year senior Levi King and sophomores William Shaffer and Jacob Grant … That was Grant's first career goal … Sophomore Lucas Hickey played 87 minutes in goal, recording four saves and improving his season record to 6-0-1 … Through 17 games, 17 different players have scored goals for ONU this season, and 22 different players have recorded at least one point … King and Kern lead the team with six goals each on the season, which is tied for seventh in the OAC … Kern has a team-best six assists, which ranks third in the OAC … Kern and King have 18 and 17 points, respectively, on the season which is tied for fourth and tied for sixth in the OAC …  Senior goalkeeper Josh Ellis has 31 saves on the season along with a 1.35 GAA and a .705 save percentage … Ellis is tied for 10th all-time at ONU with six career shutouts … Hickey has 26 saves on the season with a 1.23 GAA and .743 save percentage … King has 38 career goals, which ranks seventh on the program's all-time list … King ranks sixth in program history with 102 career points, and his 26 assists rank seventh all-time … Marietta is currently seventh in the OAC standings coming off Wednesday's 4-2 home loss to Otterbein … The Pioneers scored via an Otterbein own goal and a goal from sophomore Taj Haidar … MC led 2-0 before giving up four straight OU goals … Seniors Jovonni Auddino and Elliot Britton lead the Pioneers with 12 points each on the season … Britton has a team-best six goals, and Auddino has four goals and four assists … Senior Jacob Roberto has 11 points on four goals and three assists … Sophomore Joey Backhaus has started 10 games in goal for MC, recording 41 saves, a 2.46 GAA and .641 save percentage.

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Series Record: Ohio Northern leads the all-time series with Marietta by a 24-16-2 margin, including a 13-8-2 mark in Ada … The teams have split the past six meetings … The teams met twice in Ada in 2021, as MC won 2-1 during the regular season before ONU got a 4-0 victory in the OAC Tournament quarterfinals.

Head Coach Chris Matejka: Matejka is in his fourth season with the ONU men's soccer program … He has an overall coaching record of 42-19-10 for a winning percentage of .638 and is 22-9-4 in OAC games for a winning percentage of .667.