Volleyball: Ohio Northern (15-7 Overall, 5-2 OAC) at Baldwin Wallace (11-11 Overall, 2-5 OAC)

Wednesday, Oct. 26, 2022, 7 p.m. – Ursprung Gymnasium, Berea, Ohio

Wednesday's Preview: Ohio Northern continues Ohio Athletic Conference play on Wednesday at Baldwin Wallace … The Polar Bears will close their regular-season schedule on Saturday with a tri-match at home against Marietta and Chicago (Ill.) … Northern is currently tied with Mount Union for third place in the OAC standings, one game behind co-leaders Otterbein and Marietta … ONU is coming off Saturday's 3-1 loss at Muskingum with set scores of 21-25, 15-25, 25-14, 21-25 … Sophomore Erin Wagner led the Polar Bears with 18 kills … Sophomore Sonia Dahlin and junior Kaidie Carstensen added nine and eight kills, respectively … Sophomore Rachel Jennings finished with a team-high 25 digs for ONU, and sophomore Grace Conrad added 45 assists … Entering Wednesday's game, Wagner ranks third in the OAC with 275 kills and is sixth in the conference with a .297 hitting percentage … Dahlin and junior Ava Ehlinger rank second and third on the team with 216 and 183 kills, respectively … Jennings ranks fourth in the OAC with 427 digs … Conrad ranks sixth in the OAC with 626 assists … Sophomore Lauren James is tied for third in the OAC with 70 blocks … Dahlin is tied for ninth in the OAC with 33 aces … Fifth-year senior Hannah Irmer has 1,535 career digs, which ranks ninth on the program's all-time list and is 15th among active Division III players … Irmer ranks fourth among active Division III players in sets played (464) and eighth in matches played (125) … Baldwin Wallace is coming off Saturday's 3-0 loss at No. 18 Otterbein with set scores of 9-25, 18-25, 16-25 … The Yellow Jackets hit -.029 in the match and were led by sophomore Sam Rueda with eight kills … On the season, Rueda and freshman Gabby Schlecht lead the team with 226 and 159 kills, respectively … Rueda ranks eighth in the OAC in kills … Junior Olivia Zawadzki is tied for first in the OAC with 765 assists … Sophomore Ashleigh Curtiss ranks third in the OAC with 37 aces … Sophomore Lauren Gardner ranks fifth in the OAC with 425 digs … Senior Isa Luciano ranks eighth in the OAC with 61 blocks.

ONU Statistical Leaders:

All-Time Series: Ohio Northern leads the all-time series with Baldwin Wallace by a 70-15 margin, including a 22-7 mark in Berea … ONU has won six straight meetings and 15 of the past 16 … BWU's lone win in that stretch was a 3-0 victory in Berea in 2018 … In the teams' last meeting, in 2021, ONU came away with a 3-2 home win with set scores of 26-28, 25-19, 25-21, 23-25, 15-11.

Head Coach Katie Kuhn: Kuhn is in her third season as the head women's volleyball coach at Ohio Northern … She owns a 50-16 career record for a winning percentage of .758 and is 26-6 (.813 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.