Volleyball: #22 Ohio Northern (19-4 Overall, 5-0 OAC) at Heidelberg (18-6 Overall, 5-0 OAC)

Tuesday, Oct. 20, 7 pm, Seiberling Gymnasium, Tiffin, Ohio

Tuesday's Match: The Polar Bears enter this evening's contest ranked No. 22 nationally in the latest AVCA Coaches poll ... Northern is currently riding a 12-match winning streak, including a 3-0 sweep at Capital Saturday afternoon ... ONU was led by junior Ashley Borchers as she posted a double-double for Northern, recording a game-high 26 assists while adding 11 digs and a game-high four serving aces ... Senior Ellie Gillespie led the Polar Bear offense with a game-high 12 kills on the afternoon ... Sophomore Megan Nieszala added a team-high 12 digs for the Polar Bears ... Sophomore Haley Potters leads the ONU attack this season with 212 kills and a .322 hitting percentage ... Defensively, Potters leads Northern with 74 total blocks ... Borchers leads the Polar Bears with 820 assists on the year and ranks second on the team with 23 service aces ... Nieszala leads the team and ranks first in the OAC with 490 digs ... Senior Kaitlann Hogrefe currently ranks second and fifth in the OAC with 68 total blocks ... Potters ranks third in the OAC with 74 total blocks ... Borchers currently ranks third in the OAC with 820 assists ... Gillespie currently ranks eighth all-time at Ohio Northern with 1,361 career digs ... Borchers ranks sixth all-time for the Polar Bears with 2,022 career assists ... Hogrefe currently ranks ninth all-time at Ohio Nortern with 287 total blocks ... Heidelberg enters this evening's matchup winning two straight and six of its last seven contests ... The Student Princes are coming off of a 3-0 victory over Mount Union Saturday afternoon ... HU was led by junior Sarah Parker as she posted a game-high 19 kills ... Freshman Morgan Strenk added 11 kills for Heidelberg and a game-high four total blocks ... Junior Karlie DiRuzza added a game-high 37 assists while sophomore Rachel Raimondo added a game-high 19 digs ... Parker currently leads the OAC with 326 kills this season and .330 hitting percentage ... DiRuzza currently leads the OAC with 905 assists on the year ... Raimondo ranks second in the OAC with 443 digs ... Senior Jamie Kluding is second on the team with 244 kills and third on the team with 194 digs.

 ONU Statistical Leaders

All-Time Series: Ohio Northern leads the all-time series with Heidelberg by a 56-8 margin including a 3-1 victory at Heidelberg last season in the OAC Quarterfinals ... Northern is 20-6 all-time at Heidelberg ... HU has won three of the last four matchups. 

Head Coach Kate Witte: Witte is in her 25th season as head coach with a 632-215
record, a winning percentage of .746.