Women's Lacrosse: Ohio Northern (7-9 Overall) at Otterbein (8-5 Overall) - OAC Tournament 1st Round
Tuesday, April 27, 2021, 7 p.m. - Memorial Stadium, Westerville, Ohio
Tuesday's Game: Ohio Northern will be making its first appearance in the OAC Tournament on Tuesday as the No. 5 seed and will play at fourth-seeded Otterbein in the First Round ... Tuesday's winner will advance to the semifinals against either top-seeded John Carroll or second-seeded Mount Union on Thursday night ... A limited number of spectators will be allowed to attend the games due based on the OAC's COVID-19 policy ... Each player will receive two admissions each game ... No tickets will be available to the general public will not be admitted ... ONU clinched a spot in the tournament with a 15-7 victory over Baldwin Wallace on Wednesday ... Senior Annie McArn scored a season-high five goals, had two assists and tied her career high with seven points and freshman Emma Perry tied her career high with four goals and had a career-high five assists for ONU ... McArn was also named the OAC Women's Lacrosse Offensive Player of the Week for her efforts ... Otterbein has edged ONU 21-16 and 14-11 in their two regular season contests this season ... Freshman Sydney Kilgore, who will miss the remainder of the season with an injury, is 3rd in the OAC and is 5th nationally with 49 goals this season ... She also broke the school's single-season scoring records with 69 points and 20 assists this season ... Senior Annie McArn is ONU's all-time career leader in draw controls with 190 and is 3rd in the OAC with 75 this season ... She is third with 84 goals, 23 assists and is second with 107 points ... She is second on the team with 40 goals, 18 assists and 58 points this season ... Sophomore Meredith Miller is third on the team with 28 goals ... This year's OAC Tournament has been expanded to 6 teams with the first round on April 27 ... The semifinals will be on April 29 with the finals on May 1 ... The Cardinals are coming off a 17-14 loss at Mount Union on Saturday ... Emily Willms scored 4 goals and Cameron Ferguson and julia Karas had three goals each for the Cardinals ... Karas leads the team and is sixth in the OAC with 41 goals and she leads the team with 48 points ... Finnegan is second on the team with 34 goals and 45 points and Willms is third with 37 goals and 43 points ... Leah McNutt has 131 saves and an 11.23 GAA in goal for OU ... Otterbein is host an OAC Tournament game for the first time in program history and are making their first appearance since 2015.
ONU Statistical Leaders:
| Goals | Assists | Points | Shots | Ground Balls | ||||||||||||||
| 1. | Kilgore | 49 | 1. | Kilgore | 20 | 1. | Kilgore | 69 | 1. | Kilgore | 87 | 1. | Naugle | 35 | ||||
| 2. | McArn | 40 | 2. | McArn | 18 | 2. | McArn | 58 | 2. | McArn | 70 | 2. | Wells | 31 | ||||
| 3. | Miller | 28 | 3. | Thomson | 11 | 3. | Orioli | 31 | 3. | Orioli | 58 | 3. | Grace | 29 | ||||
| McArn | 29 |
All-Time Series: Otterbein leads the all-time series between the two schools by a 6-0 margin ... ONU is 0-4 at Westerville ... OU won this year's earlier meetings 21-16 and 14-11.
ONU Head Coach Beth Hemminger: Hemminger is in her sixth season at Ohio Northern with a 33-52 record, a winning percentage of .388 ... She is 65-64 in nine years as a head coach overall, a winning percentage of .504.
