Softball: Ohio Northern (9-7 Overall, 5-1 OAC) v John Carroll (10-8-1, 3-3 OAC); at Muskingum (20-6, 6-2 OAC); at Otterbein (18-6, 5-3 OAC)

Thursday, April 14, 2022, 3 p.m. – ONU Softball Field, Ada, Ohio
Friday, April 15, 2022, 3 p.m. - Newberry Field, New Concord, Ohio
Saturday, April 16, 2022, 1 p.m. - Otterbein Softball Field, Westerville, Ohio

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This Week's Preview: The Ohio Northern softball team will play six games in the next three days after weather forced the postponements of several doubleheaders ... ONU will host John Carroll on Thursday in a doubleheader that was originally scheduled for April 9 ... Northern will then play a regularly-scheduled twin-bill at Muskingum on Friday ... On Saturday, the Polar Bears will travel to Otterbein for two games that were rained out on Wednesday ... Ohio Northern enters this stretch percentage points in first place in the OAC standings with a 5-1 league record ... Muskingum is tied with ONU at 6-2, while Otterbein, Marietta and Baldwin Wallace are tied for third with 5-3 marks ... The top four teams after the 18-game round-robin OAC schedule will qualify for the OAC Tournament May 6-8 at the home of the regular season champion … The Polar Bears last played on April 5 when they split a home doubleheader with Wilmington, winning 3-0 in Game 1 and losing 8-4 in Game 2 ...  Freshman Ashley Lenser led the way in Game 1, pitching a two-hit shutout with a career-high 10 strikeouts and going 1-for-2 at the plate with an RBI … Lenser added two more hits, including a double, and an RBI in Game 2, while senior Abby Elliott had a two-run homer ...  Lenser leads ONU in batting average (.364) and is tied with senior Hannah Rubel with a team-high nine RBIs … Rubel has a team-high 15 hits and is batting .341 … Sophomore Kaylie Griffin (.350), senior Rachel Hish (.310) and freshman Callie Rosser (.308) are also hitting above .300 on the season … Griffin has a team-high 13 runs and ranks second on the team with 14 hits … Hish and Elliott are one and two hits away, respectively, from 100 in their careers … Lenser leads the ONU pitching staff in wins (4) and strikeouts (32), which ranks tied for ninth and 11th, respectively, in the OAC … Sophomore Alex Daum (2.00), Lenser (2.78) and junior Allie Bican (3.11) boast the top ERAs among ONU pitchers … Senior Stacey Walters ranks 10th all-time at ONU with 148 career strikeouts, and Bican ranks 11th on that list with 133 career strikeouts … John Carroll was scheduled to play a home doubleheader against Mount Union on Wednesday, weather-permitting, before taking on ONU on Thursday ... Last time out, the Blue Streaks split a home doubleheader with Baldwin Wallace on Tuesday, losing 7-0 in Game 1 and winning 4-3 in Game 2 ... Gabby Hougan paced the JCU offense in Game 2 with three hits, while Crista Nativio tallied a hit and two RBIs ... Pitcher Brianna Callow earned the win, improving to 4-3 on the season after allowing three runs on seven hits and three walks while striking out five over five innings ... Gracie Bressoud (.380), Hougan (.371) and Kasyn Scarantine (.356) lead JCU in batting average on the season ... Bressoud has a team-high 19 hits and eight stolen bases, and Nativio has a team-leading 14 RBIs ... Callow leads the JCU pitching staff with a 3.24 ERA and and ranks 10th in the OAC with 38 strikeouts ... Muskingum enters Friday's doubleheader riding a four-game win streak coming off Sunday's doubleheader sweep at Heidelberg with wins of 5-4 and 6-0 ... Haley Hawk was 4-for-6 with a double, home run and four RBIs in the two-game set ... Pitcher Madelyn Thomas improved to 8-1 on the season with a complete-game shutout in Game 2, allowing three hits and two walks while striking out six ... Hawk leads the OAC in batting average (.470), is tied for first in hits (39) and ranks third in RBIs (24) ... Thomas ranks second in the OAC in strikeouts (76) and fourth in ERA (2.44) ... Otterbein is set to take on Baldwin Wallace in a home doubleheader on Friday before hosting Saturday's doubleheader with ONU ... Last time out, the Cardinals swept a home doubleheader with Denison with wins of 6-2 and 9-1 ... Savannah McCoppin had four hits, and Isa Lewis had three RBIs to lead the OU offense in Game 1, while pitcher Jess Gunter allowed two runs on nine hits and three walks while striking out five in a complete-game outing ... McCoppin and Lewis combined for three hits and three RBIs in Game 2, and pitcher Bryn Grabowski gave up the one run on five hits and one walk while striking out two over all five innings ... Hannah Lewis (.375), McCoppin (.371) and Caroline Heller (.329) lead OU in batting average on the season ... Hannah Lewis has a team high 27 hits, three home runs and 25 RBIs ... McCoppin leads the team in stolen bases with 12 ... Grabowski leads the OU pitching staff with an 11-2 record, 1.98 ERA and 55 strikeouts.

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All-Time Series: Ohio Northern leads the all-time series with John Carroll by a 52-21 margin, including a 28-10 record at home … ONU has won each of the last seven meetings and nine of the last 10 … The teams last met for a three-game set in March 2021 with ONU going 3-0 by scores of 10-8, 10-2 and 9-2 ... Northern trails the all-time series with Muskingum by a 52-76 margin, including a 20-40 mark on the road ... The teams last met for a three-game series in the 2021 OAC Tournament Finals, which ONU won 2-1 with a 5-3 victory in eight innings in Game 3 after the teams split the first two games ... Ohio Northern leads the all-time series with Otterbein by a 55-22 margin, including a 33-10 mark on the road ... ONU has won seven of the last nine meetings, including all four in 2021.

Head Coach Jackie Price: Price is in her sixth year at the helm of the Ohio Northern softball team … She is 120-71-1 at Ohio Northern, a winning percentage of .628.