Women’s Soccer: Ohio Northern (12-1-5 Overall) at Capital (12-2-3 Overall) — OAC Tournament Finals
Saturday, Nov. 5, 2022, 1 p.m. — Bernlohr Stadium, Columbus, Ohio
Saturday's Preview: No. 2 seed Ohio Northern travels to top-seeded Capital for Saturday's OAC Tournament championship game … This marks ONU's eighth straight OAC Tournament finals appearance … Northern has won three of the past five OAC Tournament championships (2017, 2019, 2021) and is seeking its fifth OAC Tournament championship overall … ONU won a share of the OAC Regular Season championship with Capital, claiming the ninth such title in program history … The Polar Bears finished unbeaten in conference play for the sixth time in program history … Northern played Capital to a 2-2 draw in the teams' regular-season meeting on Oct. 8 … The Polar Bears are the first team listed in the "Also receiving votes" category in this week's United Soccer Coaches and D3soccer.com polls, putting them at No. 26 in both polls … Northern's lone loss on the season was 2-1 at Case Western Reserve on Sept. 17 … ONU is currently riding a 12-game unbeaten streak coming off Thursday's scoreless draw with third-seeded Otterbein in the OAC Tournament semifinals, which ended with the Polar Bears advancing on penalty kicks, 4-3 … The 12-game unbeaten streak is the fourth-longest such streak in program history … The program's longest unbeaten streaks are 17 games from 2017, 15 games from 2011 and 14 games from 2018 … Junior Bri Straus is the reigning OAC Defensive Player of the Week after scoring a pair of goals and leading an ONU defense that allowed just three shots in two games last week … Through 17 games, 16 different players have scored a goal for ONU, and 19 different players have recorded at least one point … Sophomore Alyssa Beckett is tied for eighth in the OAC with eight goals and ranks ninth in the conference with 18 points … Juniors Kylie Cabana and Jill Roberts rank second on the team with five goals each … Sophomore Emma Bowman leads the OAC with nine assists, and Cabana is tied for fourth with six assists … Bowman's assist total ranks third among sophomores in a single season in program history … Senior goalkeeper Becky Moss has an OAC-best 13 shutouts and 0.44 GAA to go with 32 saves and an .800 save percentage in playing the entirety of all 18 games for ONU this season … Moss ranks third in the OAC in save percentage … Moss is tied for second all-time at ONU for a single season with 13 shutouts and ranks ninth all-time with 13 career shutouts … Capital advanced to the OAC Tournament finals with Thursday's 3-0 win over fourth-seeded John Carroll … Junior Sophia Leonetti, freshman Lizzie Elliott and senior Avery Hart scored one goal each for the Comets … Senior goalkeeper Lauren White recorded two saves in her fourth shutout of the season … Hart has a team-best 12 goals and 30 points to go with six assists on the season … Hart is tied for second in the OAC in points, tied for third in goals and tied for fourth in assists … Leonetti ranks second on the team with eight goals, and senior Madeline Woodruff has four goals and a team-high eight assists … Woodruff ranks second in the OAC in assists … White has started 12 games in goal, posting 43 saves, a 1.10 GAA and .796 save percentage … Freshman goalkeeper Liv Alford has played in nine games, with five starts, and has 30 saves, a 0.57 GAA and .882 save percentage … Alford leads the OAC in save percentage and ranks second in GAA.
ONU Statistical Leaders:
| Goals | Assists | Points | Saves | GAA | ||||||||||||||
| 1. | Beckett | 8 | 1. | Bowman | 9 | 1. | Beckett | 18 | 1. | Moss | 32 | 1. | Moss | 0.44 | ||||
| 2. | Roberts | 5 | 2. | Cabana | 6 | 2. | Cabana | 16 | ||||||||||
| 3. | Cabana | 5 | 3. | Clampitt | 3 | 3. | Roberts | 13 | ||||||||||
| Roberts | 3 |
Series Record: Ohio Northern leads the all-time series with Capital by a 23-15-6 margin … The teams are an even 9-9-3 in games played in Columbus … This marks the 13th OAC Tournament meeting all-time between ONU and CU, and that series is tied 5-5-2 … This marks the teams' first meeting in the OAC Tournament finals since 2017, when ONU came away with a 2-0 win at home … The teams met in the semifinals in each of the past two OAC Tournaments … ONU won in penalty kicks in 2020 and got a 2-1 win in overtime in 2021 … ONU and CU tied 2-2 in Columbus in their regular-season meeting on Oct. 8.
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 251-90-40 for a winning percentage of .694 … A five-time OAC Coach of the Year honoree, Batman owns a career mark of 136-24-11 in conference play for a winning percentage of .817 to go with four OAC Tournament championships and six NCAA Tournament appearances.
