Women's Lacrosse: West Virginia Wesleyan (0-4 Overall) at Ohio Northern (2-0 Overall)
Sunday, Mar. 5, 2023, 3:30 p.m. - Dial-Roberson Stadium, Ada, Ohio
Sunday's Game: Ohio Northern will continue its season-opening 5-game home stand on Sunday at home against NCAA Division II foe West Virginia Wesleyan ... The Polar Bears are 2-0 this season after an 18-15 win over Kalamazoo (Mich.) and a 17-8 win over Trine (Ind.) ... Freshman Rylie Kocik scored six goals and senior Amanda Wells added four goals to lead Ohio Northern against TU ... Senior Meredith Miller also had a hat trick with three goals and sophomore Keaghan Burden had two goals and four assists for the hosts ... Burden leads the team with 8 assists and 12 points, while Kocik has a team-best 10 goals and 11 points ... Miller currently ranks fifth on ONU's all-time career goal scoring list with 73 and is sixth with 77 career points ... She is also fourth with 10 career hat tricks ... Burden is ONU's school record holder with 37 career assists in just 19 games ... Wells ranks second all-time at ONU with 157 draw controls ... The Polar Bears will continue their home stand on Wednesday with a 7 pm contest against Adrian (Mich.) ... The NCAA Division II Bobcats enter Sunday's contest after an 11-8 loss at Tiffin on Saturday ... The Bobcats have also fallen to Ashland 21-6, Mount Union 21-2 and Wilmington (Del.) 18-5 ... WVWU is a member of the Mountain East Conference ... They are led in scoring by sophomore Emma Adcock with six goals and junior Kaitlyn Canby with five goals ... Freshman Gabriella Gomez has 46 saves, including an impressive 21 in the loss on Saturday at Tiffin.
Ohio Northern Statistical Leaders:
| Goals | Assists | Points | Ground Balls |
Draw Controls | Caused TOs | |||||||||||||||||
| 1. | Kocik | 10 | 1. | Burden | 8 | 1. | Burden | 12 | 1. | Hannam-Zatz | 10 | 1. | Wells | 13 | 1. | Hannam-Zatz | 6 | |||||
| 2. | M.Miller | 6 | 2. | Wilson | 4 | 2. | Kocik | 11 | 2. | Wernoch | 6 | 2. | M.Miller | 9 | 2. | M.Miller | 4 | |||||
| 3. | Wells | 5 | 3. | 5 Tied With | 1 | 3. | M.Miller | 6 | Hoersten | 6 | 3. | Burden | 4 | Kocik | 4 |
All-Time Series: This is the first meeting between the two schools ... This marks ONU's third contest in program history against a Division II schools ... The Polar Bears topped Urbana 17-11 in 2016 and are 1-2 against Ursuline.
ONU Head Coach Beth Bonnell: Bonnell is in her eighth season at Ohio Northern with a 42-63 record, a winning percentage of .400 ... She is 74-75 in 11 years as a head coach overall, a winning percentage of .497.
