Volleyball: Ohio Northern (14-5 Overall, 4-0 OAC) at John Carroll (15-6 Overall, 2-2 OAC)

Saturday, Oct. 15, 2022, 1 p.m. – DeCarlo Varsity Center, University Heights, Ohio

Saturday's Preview: Ohio Northern continues Ohio Athletic Conference play on Saturday at John Carroll … The Polar Bears lead the OAC standings as the only team with an undefeated conference record at 4-0 … Northern received 24 voting points in this week's AVCA Division III Poll, putting it at No. 33 in the poll … This marks the fourth straight season that Northern has won its first four games of conference play … ONU started conference play 7-0 in 2019, 4-0 in 2020 and 5-0 in 2021 … The Polar Bears are coming off Wednesday's 3-1 home win over Heidelberg with set scores of 25-16, 30-28, 20-25, 25-22 to increase their current win streak to four games … Sophomores Sonia Dahlin and Erin Wagner led ONU with 16 and 14 kills, respectively … Sophomore Grace Conrad tallied a career-high 52 assists, and sophomore Rachel Jennings added 24 digs … Entering Saturday's game, Wagner ranks fourth in the OAC with 224 kills and a .313 hitting percentage … Dahlin and junior Ava Ehlinger rank second and third on the team with 186 and 155 kills, respectively … Jennings ranks sixth in the OAC with 354 digs … Conrad ranks sixth in the OAC with 502 assists … Sophomore Lauren James ranks seventh in the OAC with 56 blocks … Dahlin is tied for ninth in the OAC with 30 aces … Fifth-year senior Hannah Irmer has 1,501 career digs, which ranks ninth on the program's all-time list and is 16th among active Division III players … Irmer ranks third among active Division III players in sets played (451) and seventh in matches played (122) … John Carroll is riding a three-game losing streak coming off Wednesday's 3-1 home loss to Baldwin Wallace with set scores of 25-20, 20-25, 17-25, 19-25 … Graduate student Cassi Calamunci paced JCU with 14 kills … The Blue Streaks have five players with 100-plus kills on the season led by Calamunci (263) and junior Jennifer Follmer (144) … Calamunci leads the OAC in kills … Graduate student Ally Bartolone ranks eighth in the OAC with 31 aces and ninth in the conference with 390 assists … Junior Lexi MacDonald ranks ninth in the OAC with 281 digs … Sophomore Jessica Liddle has a team-high 33 blocks.

ONU Statistical Leaders:

All-Time Series: Ohio Northern leads the all-time series with John Carroll by a 48-5 margin, including a 20-2 mark in University Heights … ONU has won 26 straight meetings with JCU, including last season's 25-23, 25-14, 25-14 sweep of the Blue Streaks.

Head Coach Katie Kuhn: Kuhn is in her third season as the head women's volleyball coach at Ohio Northern … She owns a 49-14 career record for a winning percentage of .778 and is 25-4 (.862 winning percentage) in Ohio Athletic Conference games … She was named OAC Coach of the Year and AVCA Region 7 Coach of the Year in 2021 after leading the Polar Bears to OAC Regular Season and Tournament championships.