Softball: Ohio Northern (6-4 Overall) at #3 Trine (Ind.) (10-2 Overall)

Sunday, March 26, 2023, 2 p.m. – SportONE/Parkview Softball Field, Angola, Ind.

Sunday's Preview: Ohio Northern travels to Trine (Ind.) on Sunday for a doubleheader against the Thunder … The games were initially scheduled for Saturday in Ada but were moved due to inclement weather … Friday's home doubleheader against Calvin (Mich.) was also postponed, moving to March 30 … The Polar Bears are returning from their spring break trip in Florida where they finished 6-4 in The Spring Games … Sophomore Ashley Lenser posted a 4-1 record with a 1.01 ERA and 15-to-2 strikeout-to-walk ratio in five starts in Florida and was named Ohio Athletic Conference Pitcher of the Week … Lenser's highlight outing of the week came in a 7-0 win over Salve Regina (R.I.) in which she threw a complete-game one-hit shutout with no walks and five strikeouts … ONU was led offensively by senior Annika Murray (.333 batting average, 9 hits) and sophomore Callie Rosser (.323 batting average, 10 hits) during the week … Rosser and fifth-year senior Abby Elliott tied for the team lead in RBIs with five each … Rosser and senior Sydney Motylinski led the team with eight runs each …  Lenser (1.01) and senior Allie Bican (2.14) rank third and ninth, respectively, in the OAC in ERA ... Lenser is now 16-5 with a 1.35 ERA and 89 strikeouts in her ONU career … Bican has a career ERA of 2.84 and has a team-high 29 strikeouts this season, which is tied for seventh in the OAC ... Bican ranks ninth all-time at ONU in career strikeouts with 188 … Elliott has 124 hits, including 23 doubles, six triples and four home runs, to go with 80 runs and 63 RBIs in her career … Elliott's 124 career hits rank 25th all-time at ONU … Motylinski has 81 career hits, including 12 home runs, which is two shy of breaking into the top 10 all-time at ONU in that category … Trine is ranked No. 3 nationally in the latest NFCA Division III Top 25 Coaches Poll … The Thunder last played on March 11, defeating No. 12 Pfeiffer (N.C.) 9-1 and falling 7-5 to No. 2 Christopher Newport (Va.) … Through 12 games, freshman Debbie Hill leads the team with a .400 batting average, followed by freshman Karley Trine (.385) and graduate student Cassie Woods (.378) … Hill has a team-best three home runs and 11 RBIs … In the pitching circle, TU is led by senior Anna Koeppl (4-0, 0.94 ERA, 16 strikeouts), Hill (3-1, 1.25 ERA, 26 strikeouts) and junior Alexis Michon (2-1, 2.58 ERA, 24 strikeouts).

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All-Time Series: The all-time series between Ohio Northern and Trine (Ind.) is tied 8-8 … The teams last met on March 24, 2019, when Trine swept a doubleheader in Ada by scores of 5-3 and 11-2.

Head Coach Jackie Price: Price is in her seventh year at the helm of the Ohio Northern softball team … She owns a career record of 141-79-1, a .640 winning percentage.