No. 27 Women's Tennis opens OAC slate with 7-0 victory at Capital

COLUMBUS — The No. 27-ranked Ohio Northern women's tennis team opened the OAC portion of its schedule on Wednesday afternoon with a 7-0 victory at Capital.

The Basics

• Records: #27 Ohio Northern (13-3 Overall, 1-0 OAC), Capital (5-10 Overall, 0-1 OAC).
• Venue: Whetstone Park of Roses - Columbus, Ohio.

Match Highlights

• Senior Jenna Bell (Latrobe, Pa.) won 6-0, 6-0 at No. 1 singles and combined with sophomore Caroline Robinson (Indianapolis, Ind./North Central) to win 6-1 at No. 2 doubles to lead the Polar Bears as one of four players to go 2-0 on the day.
• Sophomore Lauren Okrainec (Ingersoll, ON, Canada/Ingersoll Collegiate) won 6-3, 6-01 at No. 2 singles and combined with freshman Amy Grace Beebe (Hudson/Cuyahoga Valley Christian) to win 6-1 at No. 3 doubles.
• Seniors Jamie Hurst (Granger, Ind./Penn) and Abby Cruser (Pendleton, Ind./Pendleton Heights) each also posted two victories.
• Cruser won 6-2, 6-0 at No. 3 singles, Hurst won 6-0, 6-1 at No. 4 singles and the pair joined forces to win 6-3 at No. 1 doubles.
• Freshman Audrey Austin (Perry) won 6-1, 6-1 at No. 5 singles.
• Sophomore Leah Schleibaum (West Chester/Lakota West) won 6-0, 6-0 at No. 6 singles. 

Notables

• Thus far this season, Cruser leads the Polar Bears with 28 wins, going a team-best 18-7 in singles and 12-11 in doubles.
• Hurst is second with a 15-8 singles record.
• Bell has a team-best 14 doubles wins.
• Cruser is 130-78 overall in her career. She is 7th all-time in ONU history with 74 singles wins.
• Bell is 128-77 overall in her career. Her 65 singles wins leaves her just three shy of cracking ONU's top-10 in that category.
• Hurst is 117-63 overall in her career. Her 68 singles wins leaves her just one shy of cracking ONU's top-10 in that category.
• The Polar Bears have won the past two OAC Regular Season titles.
• Ohio Northern is in its 53rd season of women's tennis with a 665-278-1 record, a winning percentage of .705.
• Fourth-year head coach Sean Swisher is 65-19 at the helm of the ONU women's tennis team, a winning percentage of .774.

Up Next

• The Polar Bears will return to action on Saturday when they host Mount Union on Senior Day at 1 pm at Westwood Tennis Center in Lima.