Volleyball: John Carroll (10-13 Overall, 1-3 OAC) at #14 Ohio Northern (16-1 Overall, 5-0 OAC)

Saturday, October 16, 2021, 1 p.m. – ONU Sports Center, Ada, Ohio

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Saturday's Preview: No. 14 Ohio Northern enters Saturday's match riding a 7-game win streak with 6 of those victories coming by way of 3-0 sweeps … The Polar Bears are coming off of Wednesday's 25-17, 25-21, 25-8 win at Wilmington … Freshman Taylor Baxter led the way with 11 kills and 6 blocks while senior Melina Woods and freshman Erin Wagner added 7 kills each … ONU has matched its second-best start in program history through 17 games, tying the 16-1 record from the 1979 season … Northern won a school-record 18 straight games to open the 1990 season … Northern is currently hitting .260 as a team with 13.4 kills, 18.3 digs, 12.5 assists, 2.1 blocks and 1.7 aces per set … Baxter leads the team with 183 kills, which is tied for ninth in the Ohio Athletic Conference, and an OAC-high 67 blocks ... Freshman Rachel Jennings has a team-high 35 aces, which ranks third in the OAC … Senior Hannah Irmer leads ONU with 314 digs, which ranks seventh in the OAC … Wagner (.406), Baxter (.383) and Woods (.298) rank first, second and fifth, respectively, in the OAC in hitting percentage… Senior Kiki Carle ranks sixth in the OAC in assists with 453 and needs 161 more to reach 1,772 career assists to tie Jill Jolliff for ninth place on ONU's all-time list … Irmer has 1,214 career digs, which is 194 short of tying Molly Schrader's 1,408 for 10th on the program's all-time leaderboard in that category … John Carroll enters Saturday's match coming off of Wednesday's 3-0 loss to No. 22 Otterbein … JCU has a team hitting percentage of .183 and is averaging 12 kills, 18.3 digs, 10.8 assists, 1.4 blocks and 1.4 aces per set … The Blue Streaks are led by a quartet of seniors in Cassi Calamunci (262 kills, 2nd in OAC), Anna Coughlin (347 digs, 4th in OAC), Carleen Ellerbruch (49 blocks, 6th in OAC) and Ally Bartolone (590 assists, 3rd in OAC) … Head coach Michele Benoit is in her sixth season at JCU and has over 600 career victories to her credit spanning stints at three schools.

ONU Statistical Leaders:

All-Time Series: Ohio Northern leads the all-time series with John Carroll by a 47-5 margin, including 25-2 in Ada … The teams' last meeting was a doubleheader in University Heights in March as part of the delayed 2020 season, and the Polar Bears won both games by scores of 3-2 and 3-1 … The Blue Streaks' last win over ONU was in 2001, as the Polar Bears have won 25 straight games in the series.

Head Coach Katie Kuhn: Kuhn is in her second season as the head women's volleyball coach at Ohio Northern with a 29-4 record (.879 winning percentage), including 18-3 (.857 winning percentage) in OAC play.