Women’s Soccer: Ohio Northern (3-1-2 Overall) at Denison (0-5-1 Overall)
Wednesday, Sept. 21, 2022, 5 p.m. — Barclay-Thomsen Field, Granville, Ohio
Wednesday's Preview: Ohio Northern is traveling to Granville on Wednesday to face Denison in its penultimate non-conference game of the season … The Polar Bears received the 34th-most votes in this week's United Soccer Coaches NCAA Division III Top 25 Poll ... Northern is coming off Saturday's 2-1 loss at No. 17 Case Western Reserve that marked its first defeat of the season … Sophomore Alexa Clampitt gave ONU a 1-0 lead in the 19th minute, but CWRU responded with two unanswered goals to get the win … Through six games, seven different players have scored a goal for ONU, and 10 different players have recorded at least one point … Sophomore Alyssa Beckett enters Wednesday's game with a team-high six points and three goals … Junior Kylie Cabana ranks second on the team with five points and two goals … Senior goalkeeper Becky Moss has recorded 11 saves, a .688 save percentage and a 0.83 GAA in playing the entirety of all six games for ONU this season … Moss ranks third in the Ohio Athletic Conference in GAA … North Coast Athletic Conference member Denison enters Wednesday's game winless on the season coming off of Saturday's 2-0 loss at No. 15 Centre (Ky.) … The Big Red have been shut out five times and have ceded seven goals in six games … Junior Callie Davis scored the team's lone goal this season, which came in its season-opening 2-1 loss at RIT (N.Y.) … Davis has a team-high 22 shots and 12 shots on goal … Sophomore Wynne Hague has played the majority of minutes in goal for Denison, recording a 1.00 GAA with 19 saves and a .792 save percentage.
ONU Statistical Leaders:
Goals | Assists | Points | Saves | GAA | ||||||||||||||
1. | Beckett | 3 | 1. | Bowman | 2 | 1. | Beckett | 6 | 1. | Moss | 11 | 1. | Moss | 0.83 | ||||
2. | Cabana | 2 | 2. | 4 tied | 1 | 2. | Cabana | 5 | ||||||||||
3. | 5 tied | 1 | 3. | Roberts | 3 | |||||||||||||
Series Record: Denison leads the all-time series with Ohio Northern by an 11-4-3 margin … DU won each of the first nine matchups between the teams … ONU is 3-0-1 against DU in the teams' past four meetings … In the teams' last meeting, in 2021, Northern got a 1-0 home win over the Big Red.
Head Coach Mark Batman: Batman is in his 19th season with the ONU women's soccer program … He is the winningest head coach in program history with an overall coaching record of 242-90-37 for a winning percentage of .689 … A five-time OAC Coach of the Year honoree, Batman owns a career mark of 129-24-9 in conference play for a winning percentage of .815 to go with four OAC Tournament championships and six NCAA Tournament appearances.