Women's Lacrosse: Adrian (Mich.) (3-0 Overall) at Ohio Northern (3-0 Overall)
Wednesday, Mar. 8, 2023, 7 p.m. - Dial-Roberson Stadium, Ada, Ohio
Wednesday's Game: Ohio Northern will continue its season-opening 5-game home stand on Wednesday at home against MIAA foe Adrian (Mich.) ... The Polar Bears are 3-0 this season, which equals the best start in the program's 8-year history ... In a 17-4 win over W.Va. Wesleyan on Sunday, freshman Rylie Kocik scored 5 goals, senior Meredith Miller also had a hat trick with 3 goals for the third consecutive game and freshmen Emma Hoersten and Elena Martin also had 3-goal hat tricks to lead ONU ... Kocik leads the team in scoring with 15 goals and 16 points ... Sophomore Keaghan Burden has five goals and a team-best 11 assists to tie Kocik with 16 points ... Miller currently ranks fifth on ONU's all-time career goal scoring list with 76 and is sixth with 80 career points ... She is also fourth with 11 career hat tricks ... Burden is ONU's school record holder with 40 career assists in just 20 games ... Senior Amanda Wells ranks second all-time at ONU with 163 draw controls ... The Polar Bears will wrap up their home stand on Sunday at 1 pm against Ohio Wesleyan ... The Bulldogs enter Wednesday's contest with a 3-0 record after victories over Illinois Tech (19-4), Greensboro (N.C.) (17-4) and Guilford (N.C.) (11-6) ... Freshman Melania Springer leads AC in scoring this season with 12 goals and 14 points ... Sophomore Zoe Weber is second with nine goals and 11 points and sophomore Sophie Mondro is third with six goals and eight points ... Adrian has out-scored its three opponents 47-14 this season.
Ohio Northern Statistical Leaders:
| Goals | Assists | Points | Ground Balls |
Draw Controls | Caused TOs | |||||||||||||||||
| 1. | Kocik | 15 | 1. | Burden | 11 | 1. | Burden | 16 | 1. | Wernoch | 11 | 1. | Wells | 19 | 1. | Hannam-Zatz | 6 | |||||
| 2. | M.Miller | 9 | 2. | Wilson | 7 | Kocik | 16 | 2. | Hannam-Zatz | 10 | 2. | M.Miller | 11 | Wernock | 6 | |||||||
| 3. | Hoersten | 6 | 3. | Graham | 3 | 3. | M.Miller | 9 | Monastra | 7 | 3. | Martin | 6 | 3. | Kocik | 5 | ||||||
| Martin | 6 | M.Miller | 5 |
All-Time Series: The series between the two schools is tied at 1-1 ... ONU won last year's meeting 18-7 in Adrian, while the Bulldogs topped the Polar Bears 9-5 in Ada in 20
ONU Head Coach Beth Bonnell: Bonnell is in her eighth season at Ohio Northern with a 43-63 record, a winning percentage of .406 ... She is 75-75 in 11 years as a head coach overall, a winning percentage of .500.
