Women's Tennis: Ohio Northern (18-4 Overall, 7-0 OAC) at John Carroll (13-6 Overall, 7-0 OAC)
Sunday, April 28, 2018, 1:30 pm - Medical Mutual Tennis Center, Cleveland, Ohio
Sunday's Match: The Ohio Northern women's tennis team will travel to Cleveland State's Medical Mutual Tennis Center on Sunday to face John Carroll with the OAC Regular Season title on the line ... Sunday's winner will claim the OAC Regular Season title with an 8-0 record and will be the No. 1 seed in next week's OAC Tournament ... The loser will end up 7-1 in OAC play be the No. 2 seed in the OAC Tournament .... JCU has won the past two OAC titles and is riding a 20-match OAC regular season winning streak ... ONU has 8 OAC Regular Season titles in program history, including the 2015 crown ... Both teams have clinched byes into the semifinals on Friday at the Lindner Tennis Center in Mason ... ONU is coming off an 8-1 loss at Oberlin on Tuesday ... Senior Lynn Kelly led Ohio Northern with a 6-2, 7-5 victory at No. 2 singles. ... Thus far this season, Wills leads the Polar Bears with a 22-6 singles mark ... Kelly and sophomore Katie Curry are 19-5 ... In doubles play, Wills is 18-9 and and junior Ashley Ochsenhirt is 17-9 ... Wills is a team-best 40-15 overall ... Kelly is 120-35 in her four-year career at ONU ... JCU is coming off a 9-0 victory over Marietta on Saturday ... Laruen O'Malley leads JCU this season with a 16-4 singles record ... O'Malley is ranked No. 4 in the Central Region in singles play ... O'Malley and Madisyn Rini are 14-8 in doubles play and O'Malley is a team-best 30-12 overall.
Statistical Leaders:
| Singles Wins | Doubles Wins | Overall Wins | ||||||||||
| 1. | Wills | 22-6 | 1. | Wills | 18-9 | 1. | Wills | 40-15 | ||||
| 2. | Curry | 19-5 | 2. | Ochsenhirt | 17-9 | 2. | Kelly | 35-13 | ||||
| Kelly | 19-5 | 3. | Kelly | 16-8 | 3. | Curry | 35-15 | |||||
| Curry | 16-10 |
Series: The series between the two schools is tied 18-18 ... JCU has won the last three meetings, including 8-1 and 5-1 decisions last season.
Head Coach Scott Wills: Wills is in his 17th season as head coach of the Polar Bears ... He is the winningest coach in ONU women's tennis history with a 347-90 record, a winning percentage of .796 ... Wills has also been named OAC Coach of the Year five times, most recently in 2015.