Women's Tennis: Ohio Northern (13-5 Overall, 2-1 OAC) at Marietta (2-9 Overall, 0-3 OAC)
Saturday, April 16, 2022, 1 p.m. - Circleville H.S., Circleville, Ohio
Saturday's Match: The Polar Bears will face Marietta in a men's/women's double header on Saturday afternoon at Circleville High School ... The match was scheduled for March 26, but was postponed due to inclement weather ... The location of Circleville is due to Marietta having a non-conference match at Ohio Christian scheduled for 11 am on Saturday ... Northern is coming off a 7-2 loss to Otterbein on April 7 at the West Campus Courts ... Sixth-year senior Katie Curry won 7-6(2), 7-5 at No. 4 singles to lead ONU ... Junior Regan Landis (27-10), freshman Miranda Wills (27-13) and freshman Katie O'Connell (24-4) lead Northern in overall wins this season … Landis and O'Connell are both 16-4 in singles play, and Wills is 14-6 … Junior Jeorgia Templin (16-3) leads ONU in doubles wins, followed by Wills (13-7) and Landis (11-6) … Curry is 85-20 in singles, 69-54 in doubles and is 154-54 overall in her career ... She is only five singles wins shy of tying the school record of 90 singles wins ... Curry also ranks 4th all-time with 154 overall wins and is tied for 10th with 69 doubles wins ... The Pioneers are looking to snap an 8-match winning streak, which includes a 9-0 loss to Otterbein and a tight 5-4 loss to Mount Union earlier this week ... Abigail Hartshorn leads Marietta with five victories this season.
ONU Statistical Leaders:
Singles Wins | Doubles Wins | Overall Wins | ||||||||
1. | Landis | 16-4 | 1. | Templin | 16-3 | 1. | Landis | 27-10 | ||
O'Connell | 16-4 | 2. | Wills | 13-7 | Wills | 27-13 | ||||
3. | Wills | 14-6 | 3. | Landis | 11-6 | 3. | O'Connell | 24-4 |
Series Record: Ohio Northern leads the all-time series between the two schools by a 39-1 margin ... ONU has won 37 consecutive matches in the series, including a pair of 9-0 victories last season ... ONU is 20-0 away from home in the series.
Interim Head Coach Mike Bonnell: Bonnell took over the program on Feb. 21 and has a 5-3 record, a winning percentage of .625 ... Bonnell is in year six as head coach of the ONU Men's Team and is 68-36 coaching women's tennis overall after leading the Ohio Dominican women from 2001-05.