Women’s Soccer: Ohio Northern (11-1-4 Overall, 6-0-2 OAC) at Marietta (3-11-1 Overall, 2-6-0 OAC)
Saturday, Oct. 29, 2022, 2 p.m. — Marietta Field, Marietta, Ohio
Saturday's Preview: Ohio Northern closes out its regular-season schedule on Saturday at Ohio Athletic Conference foe Marietta … ONU is in second place in the OAC standings, trailing leader Capital by two points and leading third-place Otterbein by one point … The Polar Bears have secured a berth in the OAC Tournament as a top-three seed, and exact seedings will be announced on Saturday night … The top six teams in the conference standings qualify for the OAC Tournament … The Polar Bears are aiming for their ninth OAC Regular Season Championship, and first since 2020 … Northern is looking to complete its sixth unbeaten conference season in program history, joining 2007, 2011, 2017, 2019 and 2020 … The Polar Bears are listed sixth among teams in the "Also receiving votes" category of this week's United Soccer Coaches Division III poll, putting them at No. 31 in the poll … Northern is ranked No. 3 in this week's United Soccer Coaches Region VII poll, trailing Case Western Reserve and Carnegie Mellon (Pa.) … ONU also received 10 voting points in this week's D3soccer.com Top 25 poll, putting the team at No. 34 in the poll … Northern's lone loss on the season was 2-1 at Case Western Reserve on Sept. 17 … The Polar Bears are currently riding a 10-game unbeaten streak, which is the fifth-longest such streak in program history … The program's longest unbeaten streaks are 17 games from 2017, 15 games from 2011, 14 games from 2018 and 11 games from 2019 … ONU is coming off Wednesday's 2-0 home win over Baldwin Wallace, marking its fifth straight shutout victory … Junior Bri Straus scored both of ONU's goals, marking the first goals of her career … Senior goalkeeper Becky Moss recorded her OAC-high 11th shutout of the season … Through 16 games, 14 different players have scored a goal for ONU, and 18 different players have recorded at least one point … Sophomore Alyssa Beckett ranks seventh in the OAC with eight goals and eighth in the conference with 18 points … Junior Jill Roberts ranks second on the team with five goals … Sophomore Emma Bowman leads the OAC with eight assists, and junior Kylie Cabana is tied for fourth with six assists … Bowman's assist total is tied for third among sophomores in a single season in program history … Cabana and Roberts rank second and third on the team with 14 and 13 points, respectively … Moss has recorded 30 saves, a .789 save percentage and a 0.50 GAA in playing the entirety of all 16 games for ONU this season … Moss leads the OAC in GAA and ranks second in the conference with eight goals allowed on the season … Moss' 11 shutouts are tied for sixth all-time at ONU for a single season and is tied for ninth all-time on the career shutout list … Marietta is currently tied with Heidelberg for eighth place in the OAC standings with the Student Princes owning the head-to-head tiebreaker … The Pioneers are coming off Wednesday's 5-0 loss at Otterbein, marking their eighth shutout loss of the season … Junior Melissa Szawranskyj has a team-best nine points and four goals on the season … Junior Anna Bardwell and sophomore Taylor Sloan rank second on the team with two goals each … Senior Madison Miller has started 15 games in goal for MC, posting 97 saves, a 2.62 GAA and .740 save percentage … Miller ranks third in the OAC in saves.
ONU Statistical Leaders:
| Goals | Assists | Points | Saves | GAA | ||||||||||||||
| 1. | Beckett | 8 | 1. | Bowman | 8 | 1. | Beckett | 18 | 1. | Moss | 30 | 1. | Moss | 0.50 | ||||
| 2. | Roberts | 5 | 2. | Cabana | 6 | 2. | Cabana | 14 | ||||||||||
| 3. | Cabana | 4 | 3. | Clampitt | 3 | 3. | Roberts | 13 | ||||||||||
| Roberts | 3 |
Series Record: Ohio Northern leads the all-time series with Marietta by a 26-6-2 margin, including a 12-4-1 mark in Marietta … ONU has won 15 straight meetings by a combined score of 54-1 dating back to 2007 … In the teams' last meeting, in 2021, ONU came away with a 1-0 road victory.
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 250-90-39 for a winning percentage of .694 … A five-time OAC Coach of the Year honoree, Batman owns a career mark of 135-24-11 in conference play for a winning percentage of .816 to go with four OAC Tournament championships and six NCAA Tournament appearances.