Women's Tennis: Wooster (4-2 Overall) at Ohio Northern (3-1 Overall); Ohio Northern at Oberlin (3-3 Overall)
Saturday, Mar. 4, 11 a.m. - Westwood Tennis Center, Lima, Ohio
Sunday, Mar. 5, 10 a.m. - Hunsinger Courts, Oberlin, Ohio
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Weekend's Matches: Ohio Northern is hosting North Coast Athletic Conference foe Wooster Saturday morning indoors at the Westwood Tennis and Fitness Center in Lima ... It is the first match of a women's/men's double header with the Scots ... ONU will then travel to Oberlin on Sunday morning for a 10 am contest with the Yeowomen … The Polar Bears are coming off a 6-2 win over NAIA Spring Arbor (Mich.) last Friday at the Findlay YMCA … Freshmen Abby Cruser and Jenna Bell won at Nos. 1 and 3 singles and combined to win at No. 2 doubles to lead the Polar Bears … Northern is led thus far this season by Bell with an 8-5 overall record, senior Flo Sanchez with a 7-1 record and sophomore Katie O'Connell with a 6-4 record ... Bell, O'Connell and Cruser all have four singles wins ... Sanchez leads the team with a 5-1 record in doubles, followed by sophomore Julianne Sheldon and Bell with four doubles wins each … The Polar Bears are currently 28-23 as a team in singles and 14-11 in doubles play ... Wooster has victories over Baldwin Wallace (9-0), John Carroll (7-2), Otterbein (8-1) and Kalamazoo (6-3) with losses to #12 Case (9-0) and #11 Carnegie Mellon (9-0) ... The Scots are led by sophomore Janaki Jagannathan with a 5-3 singles record ... Senior Katie Materick has a team-best 7 doubles wins ... Jagannathan leads the team with 11 overall victories ... Oberlin has wins over Hope (Mich.) 6-3, Kalamazoo (Mich.) 5-4 and Baldwin Wallace 6-3 and losses to #11 Carnegie Mellon (Pa.), Otterbein (5-4) and #27 Kenyon (9-0) ... OC has only four healthy players on their roster, but they are a combined 14-9 in singles and 14-11 in doubles against quality competition.
ONU Statistical Leaders:
| Singles Wins | Doubles Wins | Overall Wins | ||||||||
| 1. | Bell | 4-2 | 1. | Sanchez | 5-1 | 1. | Bell | 8-5 | ||
| 2. | O'Connell | 4-3 | 2. | Sheldon | 4-2 | 2. | Sanchez | 7-1 | ||
| Cruser | 4-3 | Bell | 4-3 | 3. | O'Connell | 6-4 |
Series Notes: Wooster leads the all-time series between the two schools by a 6-0 record ... The teams have not met since a 9-0 CW victory in 2012 ... Oberlin leads the series with ONU 9-4, including a 5-0 record at Oberlin ... ONU won the last meeting 5-4 in 2019 in Ada.
Head Coach Sean Swisher: Swisher is in his first season as head coach and has a 3-1 record.