Women's Tennis: Otterbein (10-3 Overall, 1-0 OAC) at Ohio Northern (13-4 Overall, 2-0 OAC)
Thursday, April 7, 2022, 3:30 p.m. - West Campus Courts, Ada, Ohio
Thursday's Match: The Polar Bears will wrap up their three-match homestand on Thursday with a 3:30 p.m. contest against OAC foe Otterbein ... The match was scheduled for Wednesday, but was postponed due to inclement weather ... Northern is coming off a 7-2 win over Capital last Saturday at Westwood Tennis Center in Lima, which is the indoor home of ONU Tennis since 2012 ... Sixth-year senior Katie Curry, junior Regan Landis and freshman Miranda Wills were 2-0 on the day with a singles and doubles win each … Landis (27-8), Wills (27-11) and freshman Katie O'Connell (25-3) lead Northern in overall wins this season … Landis and O'Connell are both 16-3 in singles play, and Wills is 14-5 … Junior Jeorgia Templin (15-3) leads ONU in doubles wins, followed by Wills (13-6) and Landis (11-5) … Curry is 84-20 in singles, 69-53 in doubles and is 153-53 overall in her career ... She is only six singles wins shy of tying the school record of 90 singles wins ... Curry also ranks 4th all-time with 153 overall wins and is tied for 10th with 69 doubles wins ... The Cardinals are riding a modest 2-match win streak and are coming off a 9-0 win over Muskingum on Saturday ... OU swept all nine courts with seven shutouts, dropping only one game at No. 1 singles and No. 1 doubles ... Freshman Cassidy Shough leads the lead with a 9-4 singles record, followed by freshman Lilla Walter at 11-7 and senior Rachelle Moses at 8-7.
ONU Statistical Leaders:
Singles Wins | Doubles Wins | Overall Wins | ||||||||
1. | Landis | 16-3 | 1. | Templin | 15-3 | 1. | Landis | 27-8 | ||
O'Connell | 16-3 | 2. | Wills | 13-6 | Wills | 27-11 | ||||
3. | Wills | 14-5 | 3. | Landis | 11-5 | 3. | O'Connell | 25-3 |
Series Record: Ohio Northern leads the all-time series between the two schools by a 31-19 margin ... The teams have split the last four meetings, with ONU winning 5-4 in the regular season and OU winning 5-3 in the OAC Tournament in 2021 ... ONU is 11-5 at home in the series.
Interim Head Coach Mike Bonnell: Bonnell took over the program on Feb. 21 and has a 5-2 record, awinning percentage of .714 ... Bonnell is in year six as head coach of the ONU Men's Team and is 68-35 coaching women's tennis overall after leading the Ohio Dominican women from 2001-05.