Women’s Basketball: Ohio Northern (7-2 Overall) vs. St. Mary’s (Ind.) (2-9 Overall) and Geneva (Pa.) (3-3 Overall) at Bluffton Holiday Tournament

Wednesday, December 29, 2021, 12 p.m. - Sommer Center, Bluffton, Ohio

Thursday, December 30, 2021, 12 p.m. - Sommer Center, Bluffton, Ohio

| Bluffton Holiday Tournament website |

Event Preview: Ohio Northern is playing in the four-team, two-day McDonald's of Bluffton Holiday Tournament on Wednesday and Thursday at Bluffton University … ONU will face St. Mary's (Ind.) on Wednesday and Geneva (Pa.) on Thursday with both games starting at noon … ONU will be the home team on Wednesday and the visiting team on Thursday … The event's other two games will feature Bluffton against Geneva (Pa.) on Wednesday and Bluffton against St. Mary's (Ind.) on Thursday with both games starting at 5 p.m. … The Polar Bears have won three straight games and are coming off a 66-37 victory at Capital on Dec. 18 … Northern outscored Capital 22-5 in the second quarter and led 36-15 at halftime en route to the win … Senior Alissa Stahler scored a career-high 20 points to go with 8 rebounds and 2 blocks … Junior Brynn Serbin added 10 points, 9 rebounds and 3 assists … ONU is averaging 62.6 points per game and allowing 50.3 points per contest … Northern's points allowed per game leads the Ohio Athletic Conference … The Polar Bears are shooting 38.5% from the field, 28.2% on 3-pointers and 70.8% from the foul line … Northern currently has 5 players averaging between 6 and 10 points per game in what is a balanced offensive attack … Stahler is averaging a team-high 10 points per game and 6.4 rebounds per game, which rank 11th and sixth, respectively, in the OAC … Serbin is averaging 7.8 points per game and leads the team in steals (28) and assists (25), which rank first and tied for fifth, respectively, in the OAC … Serbin's 102 career steals are just two shy of tying Joanna Snyder ('10-'13) for 20th on the program's all-time leaderboard … Following the Holiday Tournament, Northern will return to OAC play with a home game against Otterbein on Jan. 5 at 7 p.m. … St. Mary's (Ind.) is coming off an 87-56 loss to Alma (Mich.) on Dec. 18 and is riding a three-game losing streak … The Belles are averaging 55.7 points per game while allowing 67.9 points per contest and are shooting 34.2% from the floor, 28.5% on 3-pointers and 63.4% from the foul line … St. Mary's is led in scoring by Julia Schutz (11.2 points per game) and Maddie Rzepka (8.5) … Schutz leads the team in rebounding with 5.7 per game … Nikki Murphy has tallied a team-high 29 assists while Rzepka has a team-leading 12 steals … Geneva (Pa.) is coming off an 84-75 win over Chatham (Pa.) on Dec. 18 … GC finished with five double-figure scorers led by an 18-point, 10-rebound outing from Mia San Nicolas … The Golden Tornadoes are averaging 72.5 points per game while allowing 85.2 points per contest and are shooting 32.2% from the floor, 27.8% on 3-pointers and 64.9% from the foul line … Cynthia Stewart (11 points per game) and Isabella Roth (9.5) lead the team in scoring … San Nicolas is averaging a team-high 6.2 rebounds per game … Stewart has a team-leading 28 steals, and Tess Liggett leads the team in assists with 16.

ONU Statistical Leaders:

All-Time Series: Ohio Northern is 4-0 all-time against St. Mary's (Ind.) … This marks the first-ever meeting between ONU and Geneva (Pa.).

Head Coach Mark Huelsman: Huelsman is in his second season at ONU and has an overall record of 14-10, a winning percentage of .583.