Women's Soccer: Ohio Northern (8-0-2 Overall) at Otterbein (9-0-1 Overall) - OAC Tournament Finals
Sunday, April 18, 2021, 2 p.m. - Memorial Stadium, Westerville, Ohio
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Sunday's Preview: The Ohio Northern women's soccer team travels to top-seeded Otterbein for the championship match of the Ohio Athletic Conference Tournament semifinals on sunday afternoon at Memorial Stadium … The second-seeded Polar Bears shared the OAC Regular Season title with Otterbein with 8-0-1 records ... OU earned the top seed due to the goal-differential +19 to +15 ... Both ONU and OU received first round byes … ONU advanced to the finals with a 9-8 penalty-kick margin in a 0-0 tie with third-seeded Capital on Thursday night at Kerscher Stadium ... Northern has not allowed a goal in any of its 10 matches, setting a school record with 941 consecutive scoreless minutes ... Junior Kristy Catrine has played 923 of those minutes and has a school record 926 minute scoreless streak to her credit ... Senior Siena Ward leads the Polar Bears in scoring with four goals and eight points ... Freshman Alex Hoeffel is second with three goals and seven points ... Ohio Northern is making its 23rd OAC Tournament appearance ... ONU is the defending OAC Tournament champion and is 19-20-2 in its tournament appearances ... Northern has reached the OAC Tournament Finals 16 times, winning the championship in 2012, 2017 and 2019 ... Otterbein defeated fourth-seeded Wilmington 5-1 in the other semifinal match to reach their third consecutive finals match ... This is OU's 19th appearance in the OAC Tournament ... The Cardinals have a 19-12-1 OAC Tournament records ... This is OU's 10th OAC Tournament finals appearance with a 6-3 record ... Delaney Earl and Bella Shively leads the team and the OAC in scoring with 8 goals each ... Shively also leads the league with 11 assists and 27 points ... Erin Gordon has 22 saves and a 0.32 GAA in goal.
ONU Statistical Leaders:
| Goals | Assists | Points | Saves | GAA | ||||||||||||||
| 1. | Ward | 4 | 1. | Cabana | 2 | 1. | Ward | 8 | 1. | Catrine | 30 | 1. | Catrine | 0.00 | ||||
| 2. | Hoeffel | 3 | 2. | 8 Tied With | 1 | 2. | Hoeffel | 7 | Pritchett | 0.00 | ||||||||
| 3. | McGuire | 2 | 3. | Cabana | 6 | |||||||||||||
| Morris | 2 |
Series Record: Ohio Northern owns a 20-17-3 all-time record in the series … The Polar Bears are 11-11-1 at Otterbein in the series ... OU holds a 4-2-1 advantage in OAC Tournament matches ... This is the third consecutive season that ONU and OU have met in the OAC Tournament finals ... ONU won 2-1 in overtime in 2019 and OU winb 1-0 in overtime in 2018 ... The two teams played to a scoreless tie in this year's regular season match at Otetrbein on April 8.
Head Coach Mark Batman: Batman is in his 17th season with the ONU women's soccer program ... He has an overall coaching record of 225-83-32, a winning percentage of .693.