Softball: Wilmington (7-5 Overall, 1-1 OAC) at Ohio Northern (8-6 Overall, 4-0 OAC)
Tuesday, April 5, 2022, 12 p.m. – ONU Softball Field, Ada, Ohio
Tuesday's Preview: The Ohio Northern softball team is looking to remain unbeaten in Ohio Athletic Conference play as it hosts a doubleheader against Wilmington on Tuesday after sweeping doubleheaders with Marietta and Mount Union last week … The Polar Bears are coming off winning both games of Saturday's doubleheader at Mount Union by scores of 3-2 and 5-3 … Freshman Ashley Lenser pitched all seven innings of Game 1 and allowed just two runs on nine hits and one walk to go with one strikeout in the victory … Sophomore pitcher Alex Daum earned the win in Game 2, and junior Allie Bican notched three strikeouts over 2.2 shutout innings of relief to earn a save … Lenser, seniors Rachel Hish and Hannah Rubel and junior Sydney Motylinski tallied one RBI each in the two-game set … Sophomore Kaylie Griffin leads ONU in batting average (.371) and runs (12) and ranks second in hits (13) … Rubel leads the team in hits (14) and RBIs (9) and ranks second in batting average (.368) … Hish (.333), freshman Callie Rosser (.333) and Lenser (.310) are also hitting above .300 on the season … Hish and senior Abby Elliott are two and five hits away, respectively, from 100 in their careers … Lenser leads the ONU pitching staff in wins (3), and Bican and Daum have a team-best 3.11 ERA … Senior Stacey Walters has a 3.23 ERA and ranks 10th in the OAC with 26 strikeouts … Walters is tied for 10th all-time at ONU with 147 career strikeouts … Wilmington enters Tuesday's doubleheader coming off splitting a doubleheader at Baldwin Wallace last Wednesday … The Quakers lost 3-0 in Game 1 and got a 3-2 win in Game 2 … In Game 1, WC was no-hit by BWU pitcher Nikki Camarati, who struck out 18 of the 21 batters she faced … Hayley Suchland had a team-high three hits in WC's Game 2 win, as pitchers Alexis Stringfellow and Lindsey Carter combined to give up just four hits … Carter (.487) and Suchland (.476) lead the team in batting average, ranking second and fifth, respectively, in the OAC … Carter has a team-high 12 RBIs … Stringfellow ranks third in the OAC with a 2.10 ERA and is 3-2 on the season with 12 strikeouts … Carter ranks seventh in the OAC with a 2.94 ERA.
Ohio Northern Batting Leaders:
| Batting Avg. | Hits | Runs | RBI | |||||||||||
| 1. | Griffin | .371 | 1. | Rubel | 14 | 1. | Griffin | 12 | 1. | Rubel | 9 | |||
| 2. | Rubel | .368 | 2. | Griffin | 13 | 2. | Hish | 9 | 2. | Lenser | 7 | |||
| 3. | Hish | .333 | 3. | Hish | 12 | Elliott | 9 | 3. | Griffin | 6 | ||||
| Rosser | .333 |
Ohio Northern Pitching Leaders:
| Wins | ERA | Strikeouts | ||||||||
| 1. | Lenser | 3 | 1. | Bican | 3.11 | 1. | Walters | 26 | ||
| 2. | Walters | 2 | Daum | 3.11 | 2. | Lenser | 22 | |||
| 3. | Bican | 1 | 3. | Walters | 3.23 | 3. | Bican | 15 | ||
| Harris | 1 | |||||||||
| Daum | 1 |
All-Time Series: Ohio Northern leads the all-time series with Wilmington by a 34-6 margin, including a 20-2 record at home … The teams last met for a home-and-home doubleheader series in 2021, and WC won three of the four games.
Head Coach Jackie Price: Price is in her sixth year at the helm of the Ohio Northern softball team … She is 119-70-1 at Ohio Northern, a winning percentage of .629.