Football: Baldwin Wallace (0-1 Overall, 0-0 OAC) at Ohio Northern (1-0 Overall, 0-0 OAC)
Saturday, Sept. 19, 2015, 7 pm, Dial-Roberson Stadium, Ada, Ohio
Saturday's Game: Saturday's game is is the Ohio Athletic Conference opener for both teams ... ONU is 6-5 in OAC openers in the Dean Paul era ... The Polar Bears are also riding a 6-game winning streak, the third longest winning streak in the nation currently ... It is also the second night game in Dial-Roberson Stadium history ... ONU has won 8 of its last 9 road night games against Division III opponents, dating to the 1986 season ... Northern has played in 104 night games in school history, going all the way back to a 6-0 win at Findlay in 1942 ... ONU is 59-43-2 under the lights all-time, including a 34-18-2 mark in home games ... ONU topped Muskingum 31-10 on Oct. 25, 2014 at Dial-Roberson Stadium in its last night contest ... Freshman QB Will Freed threw for 439 yards and 3 TDs in his first collegiate game to lead Ohio Northern to a 29-22 victory over Utica (N.Y.) in its 2015 season opener Saturday ... Freed completed 27-of-36 passes and TD scores of 73, 56 and 8 yards in his college debut, marking the first time a freshman quarterback started a season opener for Ohio Northern since Ed Chessar in 1987 ... WR Devon Price caught 10 passes for 141 yards, WR Reed Allen caught six passes for 100 yards and a pair of touchdowns, RB Justin Magazine ran 23 times for 97 yards and a score and LB Zach Schmerge had a career-high 16 tackles for ONU ... Ohio Northern had 531 yards of total offense while holding Utica to 377 ... QB Tyler Moeglin accounted for 335 yards of offense but Baldwin Wallace opened its 2015 season with a 38-26 loss at Bluffton on Saturday ... BW led 7-0 after one quarter and 13-10 at halftime, but trailed 24-20 after three periods ... Bluffton outgained the Yellow Jackets, 460-428, including 264-225 through the air.
ONU Statistical Leaders
| Rushing Yds. |
Passing Yds. |
Receiving Yds. |
Tackles | Sacks | |||||||||||||||
| 1. | Magazine |
97 |
1. | Freed |
439 |
1. | Price | 141 |
1. | Schmerge | 16 |
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| 2. | Price | 12 | 2. |
Allen |
100 |
2. | Start | 9 | |||||||||||
| 3. |
Freed |
11 |
3. |
Ray | 90 |
3. |
Eller |
8 |
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All-Time Series: BW leads the all-time series between the two schools by a 27-12-1 margin. ONU won last year's meeting 37-35 in Berea.
Head Coach Dean Paul: Paul in his 12th season at ONU with a 76-37 record. He is 116-49 in 16 seasons overall and is 4-7 against BW.