Women’s Lacrosse: Ohio Northern (7-9 Overall) at Mount Union (11-4 Overall) – OAC Tournament Quarterfinals
Saturday, April 30, 2022, 1 p.m. - Mount Union Stadium, Alliance, Ohio
Saturday's Game: Ohio Northern is making its second appearance in the Ohio Athletic Conference Tournament on Saturday as the No. 6 seed and will play at No. 3 seed Mount Union in the quarterfinals … ONU fell 17-9 to Otterbein in the quarterfinals last season in its first-ever OAC Tournament appearance … The winner advances to Wednesday's semifinals to face No. 2 seed John Carroll … The championship game is scheduled for Saturday, May 7, at the highest-seeded semifinal winner … Northern is coming off Wednesday's 14-8 home loss to Baldwin Wallace in its regular-season finale … Junior Amanda Wells and sophomores Avary Snyder and Elizabeth Graham scored 2 goals each to lead ONU … Through 16 games this season, Graham has a team-high 35 goals and 55 points and ranks second on the team with 20 assists … Junior Meredith Miller ranks second on the team in goals with 34 and has a team-high 45 ground balls and 25 caused turnovers … Freshman Keaghan Burden has a team-high 28 assists and ranks second on the team with 48 points … Burden sits atop the ONU career leaderboard in assists with her total of 28 … Sophomore Sydney Kilgore is fourth all-time at ONU with 81 goals, is second in assists with 27 and is third with 108 points … Miller is sixth all-time at ONU with 65 career goals, is seventh with 61 draw controls and is fourth with 53 caused turnovers … Wells ranks second all-time at ONU with 144 draw controls … Senior Kate Naugle is fifth all-time at ONU with 103 ground balls … Mount Union enters Saturday's quarterfinals as the No. 3 seed … the Purple Raiders are coming off Wednesday's 14-10 home loss to John Carroll … Sydney Bumbarger ranks fifth in the OAC with 60 goals this season … Katie Clark and Eden Kesler have 35 goals each … Clark has a team-high 37 assists and 72 points, which ranks second and fifth, respectively, in the OAC … Goalkeeper Molly McGinnis is 9-4 on the season with 107 saves, a .442 save percentage and a 10.92 GAA.
Ohio Northern Statistical Leaders:
| Goals | Assists | Points | Ground Balls |
Draw Controls | Caused TOs | |||||||||||||||||
| 1. | Graham | 35 | 1. | Burden | 28 | 1. | Graham | 55 | 1. | M. Miller | 45 | 1. | Wells | 72 | 1. | M. Miller | 25 | |||||
| M. Miller | 34 | 2. | Graham | 20 | 2. | Burden | 48 | 2. | Naugle | 36 | 2. | Kilgore | 44 | 2. | Wernoch | 22 | ||||||
| 3. | Kilgore | 32 | 3. | Snyder | 8 | 3. | Kilgore | 39 | 3. | Wells | 33 | 3. | M. Miller | 36 | 3. | Naugle | 18 | |||||
| Wilson | 8 | |||||||||||||||||||||
All-Time Series: Mount Union leads the all-time series between the two schools by a 7-0 margin ... The Purple Raiders won 19-9 earlier this season on March 26.
ONU Head Coach Beth Hemminger: Hemminger is in her seventh season at Ohio Northern with a 40-62 record, a winning percentage of .392 ... She is 72-74 in 10 years as a head coach overall, a winning percentage of .493.