Saturday, April 10, 2021, 10 a.m. - Frann's Field, Tiffin, Ohio
Sunday, April 11, 2021, 1 p.m. - ONU Softball Field, Ada, Ohio
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This Weekend's Series: The Polar Bears will continue the Ohio Athletic Conference portion of their 2021 season with a four-game series with Heidelberg this weekend ... Saturday's twin-bill has been moved up to a 10 a.m. start due to a forecast of rain in the afternoon ... 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 ... The OAC eliminated non-conference games for 2021 and adopted a 36-game, double round-robin league schedule ... The teams will play home-and-home series of DHs each Saturday and Sunday from March 13-May 9 with the 6-team OAC Tournament May 12-15 ... Ohio Northern dropped three of four games against No. 20 Mount Union with a 11-10 win in game four at home, and 5-4, 10-2, 14-4 losses ... Sophomore Sydney Motylinski hit 6-for-14 on the weekend adding a home run in each home game on Saturday ... Thru 14 games this season, Motylinski leads the team with a .521 batting average, 25 hits and 17 RBI ... Her .521 batting average and five home runs lead the OAC... Senior Brady Guest ranks tied for 6th in ONU history with 16 HRs and is tied for 23rd with 123 base hits ... Senior Alicia Swierz became the 40th member of ONU's 100-Hit Club, and now ranks 31st with 107 hits ... Senior Gabby Stewart ranks 10th on ONU's all-time career hits list with 168, is fifth with 17 home runs, fifth with 124 RBIs and is eighth with 39 doubles ... ONU split a 3-game series with Heidelberg to begin the season, going 1-1-1 in games that did not count in the OAC Regular Season standings ... The Polar Bears will be in action next weekend with a 4-game series against Wilmington ... Heidelberg won three of four games against Capital last weekend by losing the first game 10-2 then winning 9-3, 8-0, 10-2 ... Brooke Lewis leads the offensive attack for the Student Princes with team-best .400 batting average and 24 hits ... Emma Dean leads the team with 19 RBI and is tied for the lead with two triples ... Riley Cruse leads the pitching staff with 24 strikeouts, a 4.50 ERA, and has accumulated four wins in 42.0 innings in the circle.
Ohio Northern Batting Leaders:
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Batting Ave. |
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Hits |
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Runs |
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RBI |
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Motylinski |
.521 |
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1. |
Motylinski |
25 |
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1. |
Motylinski |
17 |
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1. |
Motylinski |
17 |
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Davis |
.400 |
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2. |
Murray |
20 |
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2. |
Elliott |
15 |
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2. |
Stewart |
12 |
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Murray |
.339 |
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3. |
Renner |
19 |
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3. |
Davis |
13 |
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Guest |
12 |
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Murray |
13 |
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Ohio Northern Pitching Leaders:
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Wins |
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ERA |
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Strikeouts |
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| 1. |
Walters |
6 |
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1. |
Daum |
3.97 |
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1. |
Walters |
37 |
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Harris |
2 |
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2. |
Walters |
4.15 |
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2. |
Bican |
29 |
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Daum |
1 |
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3. |
Harris |
4.42 |
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3. |
Harris |
6 |
All-Time Series: Ohio Northern leads the all-time series between the two schools by a 59-16 margin, including a 39-5 mark at home ... ONU began the season with a win, loss and tie against HU winning 1-0, losing 10-9 and tying 6-6.
Head Coach Jackie Price: Price is in her fifth season at the helm of the Ohio Northern softball team … She owns an 96-54-1 record, a winning percentage of .639.
