Women’s Lacrosse: Ohio Northern (7-7 Overall, 3-3 OAC) at Capital (15-0 Overall, 6-0 OAC)
Saturday, April 23, 2022, 1 p.m. - Bernlohr Stadium, Columbus, Ohio
Saturday's Game: Ohio Northern continues Ohio Athletic Conference play on Saturday at Capital for its penultimate game of the regular season … The Polar Bears have clinched their second consecutive OAC Tournament bid following Wednesday's 19-10 win at Heidelberg … Junior Meredith Miller tallied career-high in goals (7) and points (8) in the victory … Sophomore Elizabeth Graham scored four goals to earn her fourth hat trick of the season … Freshman Keaghan Burden scored three goals to notch the second hat trick of her career … Sophomore Chloe Millican improved to 3-1 on the season in goal, recording five saves on 12 shots … Through 14 games this season, Miller and sophomore Sydney Kilgore share the team lead in goals with 32, which is tied for 10th in the OAC … Graham ranks third with 31 goals and has 18 assists for a team-high 49 points … Burden has a school-record 25 assists this season, which ranks fourth in the OAC … Kilgore is ONU's all-time career assist leader with 27 in 25 games played … Kilgore ranks fourth on ONU's all-time career goal-scoring list with 81 and is third with 108 career points … Miller is sixth all-time at ONU with 63 career goals, is seventh with 61 draw controls and is tied for fifth with 51 caused turnovers … Junior Amanda Wells ranks second all-time at ONU with 142 draw controls … The Comets are unbeaten on the season coming off Friday's 17-13 win at Mount Union … Grace Osborn led CU in scoring with seven goals and nine points, and Brooke Delara added five goals and eight points … Osborn has an OAC-high 95 goals to go with 116 points on the season … Delara has an OAC-high 121 points and 67 assists to go with 54 goals … Luci Kanowski has 63 goals and 20 assists for 83 points … Goalkeeper Bee Kuehn has played all 900 minutes for the Comets this season, posting 86 saves, a .437 save percentage and an OAC-best 7.40 GAA.
Ohio Northern Statistical Leaders:
| Goals | Assists | Points | Ground Balls |
Draw Controls | Caused TOs | |||||||||||||||||
| 1. | Kilgore | 32 | 1. | Burden | 25 | 1. | Graham | 49 | 1. | M. Miller | 43 | 1. | Wells | 70 | 1. | M. Miller | 23 | |||||
| M. Miller | 32 | 2. | Graham | 18 | 2. | Burden | 42 | 2. | Naugle | 31 | 2. | Kilgore | 44 | 2. | Wernoch | 19 | ||||||
| 3. | Graham | 31 | 3. | Snyder | 7 | 3. | Kilgore | 39 | 3. | Wells | 30 | 3. | M. Miller | 36 | 3. | Naugle | 17 | |||||
| Kilgore | 7 | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Wilson | 7 |
All-Time Series: Ohio Northern trails the all-time series with Capital by an 0-6 margin, including an 0-3 mark on the road … CU swept both meetings in 2021, winning 21-9 and 19-9.
ONU Head Coach Beth Hemminger: Hemminger is in her seventh season at Ohio Northern with a 40-60 record, a winning percentage of .400 ... She is 72-72 in 10 years as a head coach overall, a winning percentage of .500.