Women's Soccer: Ohio Northern (4-0-0 Overall, 4-0-0 OAC) at John Carroll (2-2-0 Overall, 2-2-0 OAC)
Sunday, Mar. 28, 2021, 2 p.m. - Don Shula Stadium, University Heights, Ohio
Sunday's Preview: Thursday night's contest will be the fifth 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 1-0 overtime victory over Wilmington on a rainy Thursday night at Kerscher Stadium... Junior Tara Morris scored just 1:32 into overtime to give ONU the victory ... Freshman Alex Hoeffel guided herself across midfield through traffic, and made a pass to freshman Jill Roberts, who had a one-touch pass past the keeper to Morris at the far post ... Morris scored on a top-in at point-blank range off the nifty feed for the match-winner ... Junior Kristy Catrine had a one-save shutout for her fourth career shutout in just her fourth start in goal ... She has not allowed a goal in 364 career minutes in goal and has a 0.00 GAA in 361 minutes this season ... Catrine was named the Ohio Athletic Conference Women's Soccer Defensive Player of the Week for the second consecutive week last Monday ... In four matches, freshman Alex Hoeffel leads the team in scoring with 3 goals and 6 points ... Sophomore Hailey McGuire and senior Siena Ward are second with 2 goals each ... John Carroll is coming off a 4-0 loss at Otterbein on Thursday JCU also lost 4-0 at Capital on March 21 after posting a pair of 1-0 home victories over Muskingum and Mount Union to open the season ... Junior Brittany Barney and freshman Gabriella Walter have scored the Blue Streaks' goals this season ... Junior Danielle DelGuidice is 2-2-0 with 25 saves and a 2.15 GAA in goal.
ONU Statistical Leaders:
| Goals | Assists | Points | Saves | GAA | ||||||||||||||
| 1. | Hoeffel | 3 | 1. | 8 Tied With | 1 | 1. | Hoeffel | 6 | 1. | Catrine | 5 | 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 24-13-2 margin ... ONU is 15-6-2 at home and is 4-1-0 at Kerscher Stadium ... ONU has won the last 7 matches, including 1-0 and 2-1 decisions 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 221-83-30, a winning percentage of .692.