Women's Lacrosse falls at Oberlin in a snowy season opener

OBERLIN — The Ohio Northern women's lacrosse team dropped its season opener at Oberlin 21-3 on a snowy Thursday afternoon. 

The Basics

• Records: Ohio Northern (0-1 overall), Oberlin (1-0 overall).
• Venue: Dick Bailey Field - Oberlin, Ohio.

The Game

• Junior Mackenzie Miller (Maumee/Anthony Wayne) scored two goals and started the scoring for the Polar Bears at 2:25.
• Oberlin started quickly, scoring four goals in the first 4:18 of the contest before Miller made it 4-1.
• OC would score the next four goals before Miller would score her second goal of the day at 11:26 left in the 2nd period to trim the deficit to 7-2.
• Oberlin would lead at halftime 11-2. 
• Sophomore Jenna Messinger (Springboro) had 6 saves and fresman Kara Fox (South Euclid/Notre Dame-Cathedral Latin) had 1 save to help the Polar Bears.
• Kylie Thompson led Oberlin with 6 goals and 2 assists. 
• OC out-shot ONU 40-13. 

Notables

• The game scheduled for Wednesday, but was postponed due to extremely cold temperatures.
• Senior Keaghan Burden (Brunswick) is first all-time in Ohio Northern history with 158 career points. She is also ONU's all-time career leader with 93 assists and is seventh with 65 career goals.
• Burden also had 35 assists last season to lead the team. 
• Junior Elena Martin (Canfield) led the team in groundballs last season with 51.
• Junior Emma Hoersten (Hilliard/Davidson) has the ONU career record in free position goals with 25.
• Head coach Margo Vandeveld is in her second season at Ohio Northern and has a 9-9 record, a winning percentage of .500.

Up Next

• The Polar Bears are back in action at home at Dial Robertson Stadium against Kalamazoo (Mich.) on Saturday at 1 pm.