Women's Tennis clinches outright OAC Regular Season title with 7-0 victory at Baldwin Wallace

Women's Tennis clinches outright OAC Regular Season title with 7-0 victory at Baldwin Wallace
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April 22, 2026

BEREA — The No. 37-ranked Ohio Northern women's tennis team won its second consecutive Ohio Athletic Conference regular season title outright with a 7-0 victory at Baldwin Wallace on Wednesday afternoon.

The Basics

  • Records: #37 Ohio Northern (16-3 Overall, 4-0 OAC), Baldwin Wallace (8-6 Overall, 0-3 OAC).
  • Venue: Pop Collins Tennis Courts - Berea, Ohio.

Match Highlights

  • Four different players each went 2-0 to lead the Polar Bears.
  • Senior Jenna Bell (Latrobe, Pa.) won 6-0, 6-1 at No. 1 singles and combined with sophomore Caroline Robinson (Indianapolis, Ind./North Central) to win 6-0 at No. 2 doubles.
  • Senior Abby Cruser (Pendleton, Ind./Pendleton Heights) won 6-0, 6-0 at No. 3 singles, senior Jamie Hurst (Granger, Ind./Penn) won 6-0, 6-1 at No. 4 singles and the duo combined to win 6-0 at No. 1 doubles.
  • Freshman Audrey Austin (Perry) won 6-0, 6-0 at No. 5 singles and joined with sophomore Leah Schleibaum (West Chester/Lakota West) to win 6-0 at No. 3 doubles.
  • Sophomore Lauren Okrainec (Ingersoll, ON, Canada/Ingersoll Collegiate) won 6-0, 6-0 at No. 2 singles.
  • Freshman Amy Grace Beebe (Hudson/Cuyahoga Valley Christian) won 6-0, 6-0 at at No. 6 singles. 

Notables

  • ONU won its second consecutive OAC Regular Season title.
  • Northern swept all 9 courts, dropping only two games in the process.
  • Ohio Northern leads the all-time series with the Yellow Jackets by a 30-17 margin.
  • Thus far this season, Cruser leads the Polar Bears with 36 victories, going a team-best 21-7 in singles and 15-11 in doubles.
  • Hurst is second with an 18-8 singles mark.
  • Bell has a team-best 17 doubles wins.
  • Cruser is 136-78 overall in her career. She is 5th all-time in ONU history with 77 singles wins and is ninth with 134 overall wins.
  • Bell is 134-77 overall in her career. Her 68 singles wins leaves her just two wins short from cracking the school's top-10 in that category. She ranks 10th all-time with 134 overall wins.
  • Hurst is 121-63 overall in her career. Her 70 singles wins puts her tied for eighth all-time in ONU history in that category.
  • The Polar Bears have now won the past two OAC Regular Season titles.
  • Ohio Northern is in its 53rd season of women's tennis with a 669-278-1 record, a winning percentage of .706.
  • Fourth-year head coach Sean Swisher is 69-19 at the helm of the ONU women's tennis team, a winning percentage of .784.

Up Next

  • The Polar Bears will wrap up their regular season on Saturday at No. 22 Denison.