Women's Lacrosse: Ohio Northern (6-6 Overall, 0-3 OAC) at Muskingum (5-8 Overall, 0-4 OAC)
Saturday, April 15, 2023, 1 p.m. - North Athletic Turf Field, New Concord, Ohio
Saturday's Preview: Ohio Northern continues Ohio Athletic Conference play on Saturday at Muskingum on the North Athletic Turf Field on MU's campus … The Polar Bears have not played for eight days and are coming off a 14-13 overtime loss to Marietta on April 7 ... Senior Meredith Miller became Ohio Northern's all-time career goal scoring leader, scoring five goals in the contest, to give her 101 for her career ... She broke the previous record of 99 set by Maddie Storr from 2016-20 ... Miller also recorded her 15th career hat trick, tying her for third all-time in ONU history in that category ... Sophomore Grace Wilson tied the game at 13-all with 14 seconds left in regulation off an assist from senior Amanda Wells to send the game into overtime ... Northern won the initial draw control in the extra period, but was unable to get a shot on goal and turned the ball over on a shot clock violation with 1:24 left ... MC won the game just four seconds left in the first overtime … Through 12 games this season, Miller leads the team with 34 goals, which is tied for fifth in the OAC, while freshman Rylie Kocik is second with 27 goals … Sophomore Keaghan Burden ranks third in the OAC with 22 assists … Wilson ranks seventh in the OAC with 17 assists … Burden leads ONU with 38 points followed Miller with 35 and Kocik with 31 … Miller has eight hat tricks and Kocik has six hat trick this season … Wells is fourth in the OAC with 55 draw controls … Miller is fifth all-time at ONU with 106 career points … Burden is ONU's school record holder with 51 career assists in just 29 games and ranks seventh all-time with 88 career points … Wells is ONU's school record holder with 199 draw controls … In goal, junior Chloe Millican is 6-4 this season with 62 saves and a 12.50 GAA … Junior Molly Dixson ranks third all-time at ONU with 156 career saves, and Millican is fourth with 146 … Muskingum is coming off a 20-4 loss to Mount Union on Wednesday ... MC was led by sophomore Riley Hudock who tallied two goals, two ground balls, three draw controls, and two caused turnovers ... Hudock ranks third in the OAC in scoring with 39 goals and is sixth with 41 points ... Sophomore Megan Lang is second on the team with 25 goals and 33 points ... Freshman Kyleigh Dahlgren is 5-8 with 115 saves and a 13.46 GAA in goal.
Ohio Northern Statistical Leaders:
Goals | Assists | Points | Ground Balls |
Draw Controls | Caused TOs | |||||||||||||||||
1. | Me.Miller | 34 | 1. | Burden | 22 | 1. | Burden | 38 | 1. | Me.Miller | 28 | 1. | Wells | 55 | 1. | Me.Miller | 21 | |||||
2. | Kocik | 27 | 2. | Wilson | 16 | 2. | Me.Miller | 35 | 2. | Wernoch | 26 | 2. | Me.Miller | 32 | 2. | Hannam-Zatz | 17 | |||||
3. | Martin | 18 | 3. | Graham | 10 | 3. | Kocik | 31 | 3. | Hannam-Zatz | 25 | 3. | Martin | 25 | 3. | Wernoch | 14 | |||||
Martin | 14 |
All-Time Series: Ohio Northern leads the all-time series between the two schools by a 6-1 margin ... ONU has won the last five meetings and is 4-0 in games at Muskingum ... ONU won last year's meeting 23-2 in Ada.
ONU Head Coach Beth Bonnell: Bonnell is in her eighth season at Ohio Northern with a 46-69 record, a winning percentage of .400 ... She is 78-81 in 11 years as a head coach overall, a winning percentage of .491.