Women's Soccer: Wilmington (1-0-2 Overall, 1-0-2 OAC) at Ohio Northern (3-0-0 Overall, 3-0-0 OAC)
Thursday, Mar. 25, 2021, 7 p.m. - Kerscher Stadium, Ada, Ohio
Thursday's Preview: Thursday night's contest will be the fourth of nine matches of the Ohio Northern women's soccer team's abbreviated 2020-21 schedule ... The Polar Bears will play a round-robin OAC schedule from March 14-April 11 with the 6-team OAC Tournament April 13-18 ... A limited number of spectators will be allowed to attend the games based on the OAC's COVID-19 policy ... Each player will receive two admissions each game ... No tickets will be available to the general public ... Ohio Northern is coming off a 6-0 victory at Muskingum on Sunday afternoon in New Concord ... Freshman Alex Hoeffel scored a pair of goals to lead the ONU offense ... Senior Siena Ward, junior Caroline Goeller and sophomores Hailey McGuire and Madison Vitt also scored for the Polar Bears ... ONU out-shot MU 49-5 ... Junior Kristy Catrine had a one-save shutout for her third career shutout in just her third start in goal ... She has not allowed a goal in 273 career minutes in goal and has a 0.00 GAA in 270 minutes this season ... Catrine was named the Ohio Athletic Conference Women's Soccer Defensive Player of the Week for the second consecutive week ... In three matches, Hoeffel leads the team in scoring with 3 goals and 6 points ... McGuire and Ward are second with 2 goals each ... Wilmington is coming off a 3-3 tie with Mount Union on Sunday ... WC rallied from a 3-0 deficit to gain the 3-3 tie ... Sophomores Heidi Edens and Taylor Huffman and freshman Ema Menges lead the Quakers with 2 goals each ... Sophomore Lauren Galloway is 1-0-2 with 10 saves and a 1.16 GAA in goal.
ONU Statistical Leaders:
| Goals | Assists | Points | Saves | GAA | ||||||||||||||
| 1. | Hoeffel | 3 | 1. | 6 Tiedl With | 1 | 1. | Hoeffel | 6 | 1. | Catrine | 4 | 1. | Catrine | 0.00 | ||||
| 2. | McGuire | 2 | 2. | McGuire | 5 | |||||||||||||
| Ward | 2 | 3. | Ward | 4 |
Series Record: Ohio Northern leads the all-time series between the two schools by a 17-7-1 margin ... ONU is 10-3-0 at home and is 3-0-0 at Kerscher Stadium ... ONU has won the last 6 matches, including a 2-0 decision in Ada in 2019.
Head Coach Mark Batman: Batman is in his 17th season with the ONU women's soccer program ... He has an overall coaching record of 220-83-30, a winning percentage of .691.
