Softball: Ohio Northern (9-7 Overall, 0-0 OAC) at Marietta (9-5 Overall, 0-0 OAC)
Sunday, April 2, 2023, 1 p.m. – Marietta Field, Marietta, Ohio
Sunday's Preview: Ohio Northern opens Ohio Athletic Conference play on Sunday with a doubleheader at Marietta that was postponed from Saturday due to inclement weather … The Polar Bears are coming off Thursday's doubleheader split with Calvin (Mich.), falling 5-1 in Game 1 and winning 6-4 in Game 2 … Seniors Lauren Walls and Allie Bican both hit two-run home runs in the Game 2 win … Bican got the win in the circle, pitching a complete game with eight strikeouts … Through 16 games this season, sophomore Callie Rosser leads the Polar Bears with a .385 batting average, followed by fifth-year senior Abby Elliott (.325) and Walls (.317) … Rosser has a team-best 20 hits and 14 runs and 10 RBIs … In the pitching circle, sophomore Ashley Lenser is 5-3 with a 2.30 ERA and 25 strikeouts, and Bican is 4-4 with a 2.98 ERA and 43 strikeouts … Lenser is tied for fourth in the OAC in wins, and Bican is tied for seventh … Bican ranks fourth in the OAC in strikeouts … Lenser is 17-7 with a 1.74 ERA and 99 strikeouts in her ONU career … Bican has a career ERA of 2.97 and ranks eighth all-time at ONU in career strikeouts with 202 … Elliott has 131 career hits, which is tied for 19th all-time at ONU … Senior Sydney Motylinski has 85 career hits, including 12 home runs, which is two shy of breaking into the top 10 all-time at ONU in that category … Marietta is coming off Thursday's doubleheader sweep of Denison by scores of 8-4 and 13-7, extending its current win streak to six games … Through 14 games, Rachel Kazmirski (.542) and Camryn Campbell (.419) lead the Pioneers in batting average … Kazmirski leads the OAC in home runs (7) and RBIs (24), is tied for third in hits (26) and ranks fourth in batting average … Campbell is tied for fifth in the OAC in steals (6) … Jillian Middleton (4-3, 4.78 ERA, 24 strikeouts) and Amelia Timko (2-1, 2.02 ERA, 7 strikeouts) lead the MC pitching staff … Timko ranks ninth in the OAC in ERA.
2023 Ohio Northern Batting Leaders:
| Batting Avg. | Hits | Runs | RBI | |||||||||||
| 1. | Rosser | .385 | 1. | Rosser | 20 | 1. | Rosser | 14 | 1. | Rosser | 10 | |||
| 2. | Elliott | .325 | 2. | Elliott | 13 | 2. | Elliott | 12 | 2. | Bican | 9 | |||
| 3. | Walls | .317 | Walls | 13 | 3. | Motylinski | 11 | 3. | Elliott | 9 |
2023 Ohio Northern Pitching Leaders:
| Wins | ERA | Strikeouts | ||||||||
| 1. | Lenser | 5 | 1. | Lenser | 2.30 | 1. | Bican | 43 | ||
| 2. | Bican | 4 | 2. | Bican | 2.98 | 2. | Lenser | 25 | ||
All-Time Series: Ohio Northern leads the all-time series with Marietta by a 51-27 margin … Last season, ONU swept a home doubleheader against MC by scores of 7-3 and 7-6 … MC's last win over ONU was in February 2016.
Head Coach Jackie Price: Price is in her seventh year at the helm of the Ohio Northern softball team … She owns a career record of 144-82-1, a .637 winning percentage.