Women's Tennis: Trine (Ind.) (6-4 Overall) at Ohio Northern (8-3 Overall)
Sunday, March 18, 2018, 2 pm - University Courts, Ada, Ohio
This Week's Matches: The Ohio Northern women's tennis team will open the home portion of its schedule on Sunday at University Courts with an men's/women's doubleheader with Trine (Ind.) ... In case of inclement weather,the match will be moved indoors to the Westwood Tennis and Fitness Center in Lima ... The Polar Bears are coming off a 4-2 record on their Spring Break trip to Orlando last weekend ... ONU defeated King's (Pa.), Carthage (Wis.), St. Vincent (Pa.) and Emerson (Mass.) and fell to Minnesota State-Moorhead and Coe (Iowa) ... Thus far this season, Sophomore Mackenzie Wills leads the Polar Bears with a 13-4 singles mark ... Wills, senior Lynn Kelly and junior Ashley Ochsenhirt all have 10 doubles wins ... Wills is a team-best 23-10 overall ... Kelly is 105-30 in her four-year career at Ohio Northern ... The Thunder posted a 3-1 record during their Spring Break trip to Orlando last week, defeating Morningside (Iowa) 8-1, Covenant (Ga.) 5-4 and Oneonta State (N.Y.) 5-4 and fell to Judson (Ill.) 8-1 ... TU also has wins over Earlham (Ind.), Defiance and Indiana Tech last fall.
Statistical Leaders:
| Singles Wins | Doubles Wins | Overall Wins | ||||||||||
| 1. | Wills | 13-4 | 1. | Kelly | 10-4 | 1. | Wills | 23-10 | ||||
| 2. | Curry | 11-2 | Ochsenhirt | 10-4 | 2. | Kelly | 20-8 | |||||
| 3. | Kelly | 10-4 | Wills | 10-6 | 3. | Ochsenhirt | 19-12 |
Series: ONU leads the series between the two schools by a 5-0 margin ... ONU won 8-1 at Trine each of the past two seasons.
Head Coach Scott Wills: Wills is in his 17th season as head coach of the Polar Bears ... He is the winningest coach in ONU women's tennis history with a 337-88 record, a winning percentage of .793 ... Wills has also been named OAC Coach of the Year five times, most recently in 2015.