Volleyball: Ohio Northern (19-9 Overall) at #11 Mount Union (26-5 Overall)
Thursday, Nov. 6, 2014, 7 pm, MAAC Center, Alliance, Ohio
Thursday's Match: Thursday's contest is the OAC Tournament Semifinals ... Ohio Northern is the No. 5 seed and Mount Union is the No. 1 seed ... The winner of the semifinals will advance to the finals Saturday at 2 pm at the home of the highest seeded semifinal winner ... With a victory, ONU will keep its NCAA III Tournament hopes alive, while the Purple Raiders would clinch the OAC's automatic bid to the NCAA III Tournament with a win ... MtU edged ONU 25-20, 23-25, 25-21, 22-25, 15-10 in the regular season meeting Oct. 11 in Alliance ... Junior Ellie Gillespie led the attack for the Polar Bears with a career-high 20 kills ... Junior Kaitlann Hogrefe finished the game with 13 kills and four digs, while sophomore Ashley Borchers added 47 assists and 20 digs ... The Raiders were lead by Nicole Snyder and Mallory Sliman with 13 kills apiece ... ONU advanced to the semifinals with a 20-25, 25-21, 25-15, 25-23 at No. 4 seeded Heidelberg on Tuesday ... Northern hit .228 for the match, but hit .310 in the final two sets to pull away for the win ... Freshman Hannah Davis led ONU with 13 kills, while Hogrefe and sophomore Claire Heitkamp added 10 kills each ... Borchers dished out 41 assists and sophomore Kristin Sessler had seven kills and a team-high 22 digs ... Through 28 matches this season, Gillespie leads the team with 249 kills, Hogrefe is second with 224 kills, Davis is third with 222 kills and a team-high 85 blocks, Heitkamp is fourth with 191 kills and Sessler is fifth with 174 kills ... Gillespie also leads the team with 383 digs and 33 aces, while Borchers leads the team with 929 assists ... The Purple Raiders advanced to the OAC Tournament Semifinals with a 26-24, 25-15, 25-8 victory over No. 8 seed Marietta ... Snyder had 13 kills and Kara Berger added 10 kills for MtU.
ONU Statistical Leaders
| Kills |
Blocks | Aces | Digs | Assists | ||||||||||||||
| 1. | Gillespie |
249 | 1. | Davis | 85 | 1. | Gillespie |
33 | 1. | Gillespie |
383 |
1. | Borchers | 929 | ||||
| 2. | Hogrefe | 224 | 2. |
Hogrefe | 64 |
2. |
Volosin | 28 | 2. | Sessler |
364 | 2. | Hulette | 82 | ||||
| 3. |
Davis | 222 |
3. | Borchers |
55 | Hulette | 23 |
3. |
Huelette | 334 | 3. | Dee | 60 | |||||
| 4. | Heitkamp | 191 | |
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| 5. |
Sessler | 174 |
All-Time Series: ONU leads the all-time series between the two schools by a 44-7 margin ... Mt Union has won four straight matches in the series, inclkuding a 3-2 victory on Oct. 11 in Alliance.
Head Coach Kate Witte: Witte is in her 24th season as head coach with a 613-210
record, a winning percentage of .745.