Women's Lacrosse: Ohio Northern (2-3) at Southwestern (Tex.) (2-0 Overall)
Tuesday, Mar. 8, 2022, 7 p.m. (CST) - Varsity Field, Georgetown (Tex.)
Tuesday's Game: Ohio Northern travels west of the Mississippi River for the first time in program to face Southwestern (Tex.) on Tuesday ... In their seventh year as a varsity program, the Polar Bears have yet to play a school from across the river ... In 2018, ONU fell to Carthage (Wis.) at Sewanee, Tenn. ... Ohio Northern is coming off a 14-9 loss at Trine (Ind.) on Saturday ... Sophomores Avary Snyder and Elizabeth Graham cored two goals each to lead Ohio Northern ...Through 5 games this season, Graham leads the Polar Bears in scoring with 14 goals and 21 points and sophomore Sydney Kilgore has 13 goals and 14 points ... Freshman Keaghan Burden is third with 3 goals, a team-high 7 assists and 10 points ... Kilgore currently ranks fifth on ONU's all-time career goal scoring list with 62 in just 18 games ... She is also sixth with 21 assists, needing 5 more to tie Sydney Skelding for the all-time lead ... She is also fifth with 83 career points ... Junior Meredith Miller is tied for 9th all-time at ONU with 38 career goals, is tied for 8th with 38 draw controls and is 8th with 38 caused turnovers ... Senior Kate Naugle is eighth on the all-time career ground ball list with 77 ... Junior Lacey Wernoch is 9th in caused turnovers with 32 ... Sophomore Molly Dixson ranks third at ONU with 7 victories and 106 saves ... The Pirates are 2-0 on the season and are coming off a 14-9 win against Calvin (Mich.) on Friday ... Senior Natasha Perez-Krause led SU with 4 goals ... Senior Raven Garcia leads the Pirates with 6 goals and 9 points and junior Deanna Hames is second with two goals, 5 assists and 7 points ... Junior Tessa Lewis is 2-0 with 14 saves and a 6.67 GAA in goal.
Ohio Northern Statistical Leaders:
| Goals | Assists | Points | Ground Balls |
Draw Controls | Caused TOs | |||||||||||||||||
| 1. | Graham | 14 | 1. | Burden | 7 | 1. | Graham | 21 | 1. | Miller | 18 | 1. | Kilgore | 26 | 1. | Miller | 10 | |||||
| 2. | Kilgore | 13 | Graham | 7 | 2. | Kilgore | 14 | 2. | Wernoch | 12 | 2. | Wells | 14 | 2. | Naugle | 9 | ||||||
| 3. | Miller | 6 | 3. | Snyder | 2 | 3. | Burden | 10 | Hannam-Zatz | 12 | 3. | Wernoch | 12 | 3. | Wernoch | 6 |
All-Time Series: This is the first meeting between the two schools.
ONU Head Coach Beth Hemminger: Hemminger is in her seventh season at Ohio Northern with a 35-56 record, a winning percentage of .385 ... She is 67-68 in 10 years as a head coach overall, a winning percentage of .496.