Volleyball: #25 Muskingum (13-1 Overall, 0-0 OAC) at #15 Ohio Northern (10-3 Overall, 0-0 OAC)

Tuesday, September 24, 2019, 7 pm - ONU Sports Center, Ada, Ohio

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Tuesday's Preview: The 15th-ranked Ohio Northern volleyball team will open the OAC portion of its schedule on Tuesday with a match against Muskingum at the ONU Sports Center ... ONU has won 25 consecutived OAC openers, dating to the 1994 season … The Polar Bears are riding a 4-match winning streak, which includes 3-0 sweeps over Defiance and Kenyon last weekend ... Senior All-American Chelsea Huppert leads the OAC with a .362 hitting percentage and is second in the league with a 1.14 blocks per set average ... Freshman Madison Kern leads the league with 55 blocks and a 1.25 bps average ... Huppert and Kern are 1-2 on the team with 105 and 96 kills, respectively ... Freshman Megan Mahon is third with 79 kills and senior McKenna Jordan is fourth with 61 kills ... Jordan has 982 career kills in 104 matches and needs just 18 more to reach the 1,000-kill plateau … Senior defensive specialist McKenna Hostetler leads the team and is second in the OAC with 258 digs ... She has 1,673 digs in 109 career matches, ranking her fifth all-time in ONU history ... Junior setter Katie Wade has 247 assists on the season and 2,657 in her career, which places her seventh in school history ... Sophomore Kiki Carle is second on the team with 227 assists ... Huppert has 1,130 career kills and needs just 11 kills to tie Cari Treisch for 10th place on ONU's all-time career kills list with 1,141 ... Huppert already ranks third all-time with a career .340 hitting percentage and 106 career block solos and is eighth with 328 total blocks ... Muskingum enters Tuesday's match ranked #25 by the AVCA and is riding a 3-match win streak ... MU went 2-0 at the DePauw (Ind.) Invitational on Saturday, defeating St. Mary's (Ind.) and DePauw ... Junior Brooke Featheree leads the OAC with with an average of 3.50 kills per set and is fourth in the OAC with 161 kills ... Junior Maddie McGee is second on the team with 112 kills ...  Junior Erin Dickson is fifth in the OAC with an average of 8.50 assists per set.

ONU Statistical Leaders:

All-Time Series: Ohio Northern leads the all-time series between the two schools by a 61-13 margin ... Northern has won 21 consecutive matches, dating to 2002 ... ONU is 25-5 all-time in matches at the ONU Sports Center.

Head Coach Kate Witte: Witte is currently in her 29th season as the head women's volleyball coach at Ohio Northern … She owns a coaching record of 725-238, a winning percentage of .753 ... She is the school's all-time wins leader. ... She is the school's all-time wins leader and has announced her retirement at the end of the 2019 season.