Mitchel Luck leads Men's Lacrosse to a 12-4 road win at Capital

Ohio Northern

11-4, 6-1

Capital

4-8, 2-4

Final	1	2	3	4	T
Ohio Northern (11-4, 6-1)	4	6	1	1	12
Capital (4-8, 2-4)	1	2	1	0	4

Game Leaders

G: Mitchel Luck - 3

A: 2 Players (#25, #57) - 2

Sv: Peyton Lich - 7

GB: Peyton Lich - 5

G: Mason Spaulding - 3

A: Charlie Howenstine - 1

Sv: Luc Kadlic - 14

GB: 3 Players (#2, #18, #21) - 4

Team Stats

Full stats

April 12, 2025

COLUMBUS — Ohio Northern men's lacrosse team won a 12-4 road contest at Capital in an Ohio Athletic Conference battle on a cool Saturday afternoon.

The Basics

The Game

Sophomore Mitchel Luck (Linden, Mich.) scored three goals and two assists to lead ONU.
Senior Caleb Bennett (Stokesdale, N.C./Linganore) scored two goals and an assist in the contest.
Junior Colin Willits (West Chester/Lakota West) had two goals and two assists in the game.
Northern went on a 4-1 in the first period.
Ferguson scored the first goal of the second period at 13:40 to extend the lead to 5-1.
After a Capital goal the Polar Bears went on a 5-1 run to make it 10-3 heading into halftime.
Luck found the net to begin the second half at 9:32 to make it 11-3.
ONU led 11-4 heading into the fourth period.
Both teams could not find the net in the fourth until Bennett scored with 42 seconds left in the contest to make it 12-4.
The Comets were led by Mason Spaulding who had three goals.
Freshman Peyton Lich (Palmyra, N.Y./Macedon) had seven saves to earn the win.
Seven different Polar Bears scored goals in the contest.
ONU out-shot MU 56-24 and had the ground ball advantage 40-38.

Notables

Willits leads the team in goals this season with 37.
He also leads the team in points with 48.
Bennett leads the team in assists this season with 21 and is 4th in the OAC in assists.
Senior Alex Bergeron (Grafton, Mass.) and sophomore Ryan Frech (Columbus/Worthington Kilbourne) lead the team in caused turnovers this season with 25 each.
Senior Chad Calderwood (Portland, Ore./Episcopal) won 8 of 15 in faceoffs on the day, extending his school record to 541 for his career.
He also has the career ground balls record with 248.
Willits is fifth all-time in ONU history with 81 career goals.
Capital leads the all-time series with a 6-5 record.
Bennett ranks fourth all-time in ONU history with 43 career assists.
Head coach Nat St.Laurent is in his tenth season at Ohio Northern with a 103-52 record, a winning percentage of .664.

Up Next

The Polar Bears will return to action at home against John Carroll on Friday at 3 pm on Senior Day.