Women's Lacrosse: Ohio Northern (2-4 Overall) v Northwestern (Minn.) (0-0 Overall)
Thursday, Mar. 10, 2022, 7 p.m. (CST) - Varsity Field, Georgetown, Tex.
Thursday's Game: Ohio Northern will face Northwestern (Minn.) on Thursday in a neutral site game at Southwestern (Tex.) ... Ohio Northern is coming off a 15-13 loss at Southwestern on Tuesday ... Junior Amanda Wells, sophomore Sydney Kilgore and freshman Keaghan Burden netted three goals each to lead the Ohio Northern ...Through 6 games this season, Kilgore and sophomore Sydney Graham lead the Polar Bears in scoring with 16 goals each ... Graham leads the team with 21 points and Kilgore is second with 18 points ... Freshman Keaghan Burden is third with 6 goals, a team-high 8 assists and 14 points ... Kilgore currently ranks fifth on ONU's all-time career goal scoring list with 65 in just 19 games ... She is also fourth with 22 assists, needing 4 more to tie Sydney Skelding for the all-time lead ... She is also fifth with 87 career points ... Junior Meredith Miller is tied for 9th all-time at ONU with 38 career goals, is 7th with 40 draw controls and is 8th with 38 caused turnovers ... Senior Kate Naugle is eighth on the all-time career ground ball list with 81 ... Junior Lacey Wernoch is 9th in caused turnovers with 37 ... Sophomore Molly Dixson ranks third at ONU with 7 victories and 112 saves ... Thursday's game is the 2022 season-opener for the Eagles, who compete in the Midwest Women's Lacrosse Conference ... UNW went 6-5 and reached the championship game of the MWLC Tournament a year ago ... Senior Samantha Wiebold is coming off of a season in which she scored 25 goals, had 4 assists and was named to the MWLC All-Conference Second Team.
Ohio Northern Statistical Leaders:
| Goals | Assists | Points | Ground Balls |
Draw Controls | Caused TOs | |||||||||||||||||
| 1. | Graham | 16 | 1. | Burden | 8 | 1. | Graham | 23 | 1. | Miller | 19 | 1. | Kilgore | 31 | 1. | Wernoch | 11 | |||||
| Kilgore | 16 | 2. | Graham | 7 | 2. | Kilgore | 18 | 2. | Wernoch | 15 | 2. | Wells | 19 | Naugle | 11 | |||||||
| 3. | Miller | 7 | 3. | Wells | 3 | 3. | Burden | 14 | 3. | Hannam-Zatz | 13 | 3. | Wernoch | 15 | 3. | Miller | 10 | |||||
| Naugle | 13 |
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 35-57 record, a winning percentage of .380 ... She is 67-69 in 10 years as a head coach overall, a winning percentage of .492.