Men's Lacrosse: Ohio Northern (12-5 Overall) at Baldwin Wallace (15-2 Overall) - OAC Tournament Semifinals
Wednesday, May 3, 2023, 7 p.m. - Finnie Stadium, Berea, Ohio
Wednesay's Game: Ohio Northern is the No. 4 seed in the OAC Tournament and will travel to top seeded Baldwin Wallace for the OAC Tournament semifinals on Wednesday night at Finnie Stadium ... Northern advanced to the semifinals with a 10-3 victory over Otterbein in the quarterfinals on Saturday afternoon ... The ONU defense kept OU off the scoreboard for the first 19:35 of the game as the hosts led 5-1 at halftime ... Northern also forced the visitors into committing 31 turnovers in the contest ... Senior goalkeeper Cole Zaferakis was brilliant in net, stopping nine of 12 shots on goal, and is now 12-5 on the season ... Junior Sebastian Michaud and sophomore Caleb Bennett each had three-goal hat tricks to lead the Ohio Northern offense ... Through 17 games this season, junior Aidan Dempsey leads the Polar Bears with 47 points on 31 goals and 16 assists ... Junior Sebastian Michaud is second wits 27 goals and 35 points and senior Tyler Ferguson has 18 goals and 21 points ... Junior John Lynn has 16 goals, 12 assists and 28 points ... Senior Cole Zaferakis is 12-5 with a 7.23 GAA, 132 saves and a 55.9 save percentage ... He is ONU's all-time career leader in saves with 431, in victories with 36 and in minutes played with 2,705 ... Senior Riley O'Neal is fifth in ONU history with 34 career assists ... Junior Chad Calderwood is third in ONU history with 287 face-off wins and is third with a 55.1 face-off win percentage. ... The Yellow Jackets enter Wednesday's OAC Tournament semifinal riding a 15-game winning streak ... BW claimed its third straight OAC regular season title and broke the program's single-season wins record with 15 with a 16-7 win over Mount Union last Wednesday ... Freshman Bennet Trout has a team-best 33 goals and is second with 46 points ... Senior Jonas Aquilla has 30 goals and a team-best 48 points ... Senior Kyler Byerly has 30 goals and 42 points ... No. 3 Capital topped No. 6 Mount Union in the other quarterfinal game and will play at No. 2 seed John Carroll on Saturday ... The top six teams qualifed for the OAC Tournament ... The top two seeds received first round byes and will host semifinal games on Wednesday, May 3 ... The finals are slated for Saturday, May 6.
Ohio Northern Statistical Leaders:
| Goals | Assists | Points | Ground Balls |
Face Offs | Caused TOs | ||||||||||||||||
| 1. | Dempsey | 31 | 1. | Dempsey | 16 | 1. | Dempsey | 47 | 1. | Calderwood | 68 | 1. | Calderwood | 124-230 | 1. | An.Reimer | 27 | ||||
| 2. | Michaud | 27 | 2. | Lynn | 12 | 2. | Michaud | 35 | 2. | An.Reimer | 55 | 2. | Dittus | 48-83 | 2. | Keeley | 20 | ||||
| 3. | Ferguson | 18 | 3. | O'Neal | 8 | 3. | Lynn | 28 | 3. | Keeley | 39 | 3. | Smith | 34-68 | 3. | Mitchell | 16 | ||||
| Michaud | 8 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Bennett | 8 |
All-Time Series: Baldwin Wallace leads the all-time series with ONU by a 7-1 margin … BW won this year's game 9-6 in Ada ... ONU is 1-4 in the series in games played at Finnie Stadium ... BW is 2-0 against ONU in OAC Tournament play.
ONU Head Coach Nat St. Laurent: St. Laurent is in his sixth season at ONU with a 80-40 record, a winning percentage of .667.
