Men's Lacrosse: Ohio Northern (1-0 Overall, 0-0 OAC) at Heidelberg (0-1 Overall, 0-0 OAC)
Saturday, March 6, 2020, 1 p.m. - Hoernemann Stadium, Tiffin, Ohio
Saturday's Preview: The Polar Bears began their abbreviated 2021 season with a tight 8-7 non-conference victory over Otterbein last Sunday at Dial-Roberson Stadium ... Senior Cameron Marous dished out three assists and senior Joe O'Connell and C.J. Moran had two goals each for ONU ... Northern led 8-4 at 6:27 of the third but OU scored the next three goals to get within 8-7 with 10:04 remaining in the game ... The Polar Bear defense stiffened, allowing only two shots on goal the rest of the way while forcing turnovers on five of OU's final six possessions ... Sophomore Cole Zaferakis had eight saves in goal to record the win in goal for ONU ... Marous is an Academic All-American and is ONU's all-time career leading scorer with 118 goals, 89 assists and 207 points ... Senior Preston Victory is third in ONU history with 240 career faceoff wins and his .619 winning percentage is the best in school history ... Ohio Northern will play a round-robin OAC schedule with games against the other nine league schools on nine consecutive Saturdays to determine the OAC Regular Season title and the seeding for the OAC Tournament, beginning with today's game at Heidelberg ... ONU will also play Otterbein, Heidelberg, Wilmington and Baldwin Wallace in non-conference games ... The Student Princes are coming off a 32-1 loss to John Carroll last Saturday ... Freshman Cian Howery made 16 saves in the loss, as JCU peppered the goal with 76 shot attempts ... Alex Bruder scored the lone goal for the Student Princes.
Ohio Northern Statistical Leaders:
| Goals | Assists | Points | Shots | Ground Balls | ||||||||||||||
| 1. | O'Connell | 2 | 1. | Marous | 3 | 1. | Marous | 3 | 1. | O'Connell | 7 | 1. | Victory | 4 | ||||
| Moran | 2 | 2. | Mullin | 1 | 2. | O'Connell | 2 | Berthelsen-Leon | 7 | 2. | Giles | 3 | ||||||
| 3. | Schmeling | 1 | Schmeling | 1 | Moran | 2 | 3. | Schmeling | 6 | Reimer | 3 | |||||||
| Berthelsen-Leon | 1 | O'Neal | 1 | Schmeling | 2 | Giles | 6 | |||||||||||
| Giles | 1 | |||||||||||||||||
| Edkins | 1 |
All-Time Series: Ohio Northern leads the all-time series between the two schools by a 3-0 margin ... Ohio Northern is 2-0 at home and 1-0 on the road ... ONU won last year's battle 23-3 in Ada.
ONU Head Coach Nat St. Laurent: St. Laurent is in his sixth season at ONU with a 49-24 record, a winning percentage of .671.