Thursday, April 28, 2022, 3:30 p.m. - ONU Softball Field, Ada, Ohio
Friday, April 29, 2022, 3 p.m. - ONU Softball Field, Ada, Ohio
Saturday, April 30, 2022, 1 p.m. - ONU Softball Field, Ada, Ohio
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Game Previews: The Ohio Northern softball team is playing in home doubleheaders against non-conference foe Wooster on Thursday and Ohio Athletic Conference opponents John Carroll and Heidelberg on Friday and Saturday, respectively … Saturday is Senior Day for the Polar Bears … The seniors on this year's roster are Rachel Hish, Stacey Walters, Hannah Rubel, Abby Elliott and Lauren Renner … ONU currently leads the conference standings by percentage points over Muskingum (.857 to .813) … The Polar Bears have won six straight games coming off Sunday's home doubleheader sweep of Baldwin Wallace with wins of 2-0 and 8-5 … Freshman Ashley Lenser pitched a 2-hit shutout with no walks and 7 strikeouts in Game 1, and sophomore Kaylie Griffin added a solo home run … Lenser has won each of her last seven starts, including shutouts in four of her last five outings and a no-hitter against Muskingum on April 15 … Lenser went 3-0 in her 3 starts last week with two shutouts, a 0.32 ERA and a 17-to-4 strikeout-to-walk ratio, earning her OAC Pitcher of the Week honors … Junior Allie Bican recorded 9 strikeouts in the Game 2 win to improve to 4-1, and junior Sydney Motylinski led the offense with 3 hits and 3 RBIs … Through 24 games, Griffin leads ONU in batting average (.382), hits (26), runs (21) and RBIs (13) … Griffin ranks 10th in the OAC in batting average … Lenser (.327) and Hish (.324) are also hitting above .300 on the season … Hish ranks 33rd on ONU's all-time hits list with 108, and Elliott is tied for 34th with 106 career hits … Lenser leads the OAC in ERA (1.72) and ranks fifth in wins (8) and 12th in strikeouts (53) … Bican ranks 10th all-time at ONU with 152 career strikeouts, and Walters ranks 11th with 148 career strikeouts … North Coast Athletic Conference member Wooster enters Thursday's doubleheader coming off splitting a doubleheader with Oberlin on Tuesday, winning 11-3 in five innings in Game 1 and falling 8-6 in Game 2 … The Fighting Scots tallied a combined 21 hits, including 4 doubles, 2 triples and one home run, in the two games … Through 34 games, Molly Likins (.370) and Destiny Blake (.338) lead the team in batting average … Likins has a team-high 6 home runs and 30 RBIs, and Brooke Swain leads the team in steals with 18 … Addie Tagg has a team-best 3.69 ERA, and Rachael Dudziak has a team-high 40 strikeouts … John Carroll enters Friday's doubleheader coming off last Saturday's doubleheader split at Marietta, falling 6-4 in Game 1 and winning 5-3 in Game 2 … The Blue Streaks have 5 players batting .300 or better on the season led by Gracie Bressoud (.377) and Gabby Hougan (.333) … Crista Nativio and Kristen Jesberger share the team lead in RBIs (17) … Bressoud has a team-high 15 steals … Brianna Callow has a team-best 2.51 ERA and 71 strikeouts and is 5-4 on the season … Heidelberg closes its regular-season schedule on Saturday's doubleheader … The Student Princes are coming off a pair of losses in a doubleheader at Case Western Reserve on Tuesday, snapping a 6-game win streak … HU fell 7-2 in Game 1 and 7-6 in Game 2 … Kat Brady and Emma Dean each had a combined six hits in the two-game set … Brady has an OAC-best .480 batting average … Dean has an OAC-high 41 RBIs and ranks fourth in the conference in batting average (.422) and tied for second in doubles (11) … Brady has 29 stolen bases, which ranks second in the OAC … In the pitching circle, Caitlin Dems is 6-5 with a 3.29 ERA with 44 strikeouts on the season, and Payton Scheid is 7-3 with a 4.88 ERA and 27 strikeouts.
Ohio Northern Batting Leaders:
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Batting Avg. |
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Hits |
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Runs |
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RBI |
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| 1. |
Griffin |
.382 |
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1. |
Griffin |
26 |
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1. |
Griffin |
21 |
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1. |
Griffin |
13 |
| 2. |
Lenser |
.327 |
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2. |
Hish |
22 |
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2. |
Elliott |
18 |
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2. |
Motylinski |
12 |
| 3. |
Hish |
.324 |
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Rubel |
22 |
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3. |
Hish |
12 |
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3. |
Rubel |
11 |
Ohio Northern Pitching Leaders:
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Wins |
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ERA |
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Strikeouts |
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| 1. |
Lenser |
8 |
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1. |
Lenser |
1.72 |
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1. |
Lenser |
53 |
| 2. |
Bican |
4 |
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2. |
Bican |
2.21 |
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2. |
Bican |
34 |
| 3. |
Walters |
2 |
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3. |
Daum |
2.45 |
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3. |
Walters |
27 |
All-Time Series: Ohio Northern leads the all-time series with Wooster by a 6-1 margin … The teams last met in March 2019, splitting a doubleheader in Ada with ONU winning 3-2 in Game 1 and falling 7-3 in Game 2 … Ohio Northern leads the all-time series with John Carroll by a 50-21 margin, including a 28-10 mark at home … ONU has won 7 straight meetings, including all 3 last season by a combined score of 29-12 … Northern leads the all-time series with Heidelberg 62-19-1 margin, including 42-5 at home … The teams met six times in 2021 with ONU going 3-2-1 capped by a 10-0 home win on April 11.
Head Coach Jackie Price: Price is in her sixth year at the helm of the Ohio Northern softball team … She is 127-72-1 at Ohio Northern, a winning percentage of .638.
