Softball: Marietta (6-8 Overall, 0-0 OAC) at Ohio Northern (4-6 Overall, 0-0 OAC)

Wednesday, March 30, 2022, 3 p.m. – ONU Softball Field, Ada, Ohio

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Wednesday's Preview: The Ohio Northern softball team opens Ohio Athletic Conference play on Wednesday hosting a doubleheader with Marietta, which is a rescheduled matchup from Saturday … The Polar Bears are returning to action for the first time since playing a doubleheader at Alma (Mich.) on March 21 … Northern dropped both games of that doubleheader, falling 6-2 in Game 1 and 5-4 in Game 2 … Seniors Hannah Rubel and Lauren Renner each had a double and an RBI in Game 1 … In Game 2, ONU got a triple from senior Abby Elliott and a double from junior Sydney Motylinski to go with two RBIs from freshman Callie Rosser and an RBI each from Elliott and freshman Mariana Alejandro … Rubel leads ONU in batting average (.440), hits (11) and RBIs (7) … Rubel ranks ninth in the OAC in batting average … Rosser (.438) and sophomore Kaylie Griffin (.429) are also hitting above .400 … Griffin leads Northern with eight runs scored … Senior Rachel Hish and Elliott are six and nine hits away, respectively, from 100 in their careers … Senior Stacey Walters headlines the Polar Bear pitching staff with a 2-2 record, 2.40 ERA and 23 strikeouts over four starts spanning 23.1 innings on the season … Walters ranks fifth in the OAC in ERA and eighth in strikeouts … Walters ranks 11th all-time at ONU with 144 career strikeouts and is just three strikeouts away from tying Michelle Stillings ('86-'89) for 10th place on the all-time list … Marietta enters Wednesday's doubleheader at 6-8 overall coming off a doubleheader at Ohio Wesleyan on March 22 … Marietta fell 2-1 in Game 1 and 5-4 in five innings in Game 2 of that doubleheader … Sophomores Rachel Kazmirski (.426) and Jillian Middleton (.400) lead the Pioneers in batting average … Middleton (15) and Kazmirski (13) lead the team in RBIs … Kazmirski and senior Kylie Daugherty are tied for the team lead in home runs (3) … Middleton leads the Pioneer pitching staff with a 5-2 record, 3.43 ERA and 38 strikeouts spanning 51 innings this season.

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All-Time Series: Ohio Northern leads the all-time series with Marietta by a 49-27 margin, including 29-9 at home … ONU has won nine of the past 10 games in the series … The teams last met in March 2021 for a home-and-home doubleheader series with ONU going 3-1 in the four-game set.

Head Coach Jackie Price: Price is in her sixth year at the helm of the Ohio Northern softball team … She is 115-70-1 at Ohio Northern, a winning percentage of .622.