Women's Lacrosse: Earlham (Ind.) (1-1 Overall) at Ohio Northern (3-4)
Wednesday, Mar. 16, 2022, 7 p.m. - Dial-Roberson Stadium, Ada, Ohio
Wednesday's Game: Ohio Northern will return home after playing six of its first seven games on the road for its Wednesday tilt with Earlham (Ind.) ... ONU is coming off a 20-3 victory over Northwestern (Minn.) ... Sophomores Sydney Kilgore and Avary Snyder combined for an impressive 13 goals to lead Ohio Northern ... Through 7 games this season, Kilgore leads the Polar Bears in scoring with 23 goals ... Sophomore Elizabeth Graham leads the team with 29 points and 12 assists to go with 17 goals ... Freshman Keaghan Burden is third with 6 goals and 17 points and is second with 11 assists ... Kilgore currently ranks fourth on ONU's all-time career goal scoring list with 72 in just 20 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 94 career points ... Junior Meredith Miller is 9th all-time at ONU with 41 career goals, is 7th with 44 draw controls and is 8th with 40 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 39 ... Sophomore Molly Dixson ranks third at ONU with 8 victories and 114 saves in goal ... The Quakers opened their 2022 season with a 16-2 loss at Kalamazoo (Mich.) on March 6 and a 12-11 home win over Asbury (Ky.) on March 10 ... EC also had games with Bethel (Ind.), DePauw (Ind.) and Muskingum canceled ... In the won over Asbury, senior Serena Pisacano led the Quakers with 4 goals and 2 assists ... Pisacano leads the team in scoring with 7 points on 5 goals and 2 assists ... Freshman Mackenzie Kotch has 16 saves in goal.
Ohio Northern Statistical Leaders:
Goals | Assists | Points | Ground Balls |
Draw Controls | Caused TOs | |||||||||||||||||
1. | Kilgore | 23 | 1. | Graham | 12 | 1. | Graham | 29 | 1. | Miller | 22 | 1. | Kilgore | 35 | 1. | Wernoch | 13 | |||||
2. | Graham | 17 | 2. | Burden | 11 | 2. | Kilgore | 25 | 2. | Wernoch | 16 | 2. | Wells | 29 | 2. | Miller | 12 | |||||
3. | Snyder | 11 | 3. | Wells | 5 | 3. | Burden | 17 | 3. | Naugle | 16 | 3. | Miller | 19 | 3. | Naugle | 11 | |||||
All-Time Series: This is the first meeting between the two schools ... It is also the first meeting by ONU against a school from the Heartland Conference.
ONU Head Coach Beth Hemminger: Hemminger is in her seventh season at Ohio Northern with a 36-57 record, a winning percentage of .387 ... She is 68-69 in 10 years as a head coach overall, a winning percentage of .496.