Softball: Muskingum (17-5 Overall, 4-0 OAC) at Ohio Northern (10-10 Overall, 1-3 OAC)
Friday, April 7, 2023, 1 p.m. – ONU Softball Field, Ada, Ohio
Friday's Preview: Ohio Northern continues Ohio Athletic Conference play on Friday hosting a doubleheader against Muskingum … The Polar Bears are coming off splitting Tuesday's doubleheader against Baldwin Wallace, winning 3-1 and falling 8-2 … Through 20 games this season, sophomore Callie Rosser leads the Polar Bears with a .343 batting average, followed by senior Annika Murray (.302) and junior Kaylie Griffin (.291) … Rosser has a team-best 23 hits, 14 runs and 10 RBIs … Griffin has 16 hits, including a team-high six doubles, which is tied for seventh in the OAC … In the pitching circle, sophomore Ashley Lenser is 6-4 with a 2.18 ERA and 32 strikeouts, and senior Allie Bican is 4-6 with a 4.02 ERA and 54 strikeouts … Lenser is tied for sixth in the OAC in wins and ranks 10th in ERA … Bican ranks fifth in the OAC in strikeouts … Lenser is 18-8 with a 1.74 ERA and 106 strikeouts in her ONU career, which is tied for 16th in program history … Bican has a career ERA of 3.24 and ranks sixth all-time at ONU in career strikeouts with 213 … Fifth-year senior Abby Elliott has 133 career hits, which is ranks 19th all-time at ONU … Senior Sydney Motylinski has 86 career hits, including 12 home runs, which is two shy of breaking into the top 10 all-time at ONU in that category … Muskingum is coming off splitting a doubleheader at No. 3 Trine (Ind.) on Thursday, winning 8-7 in Game 1 and falling 5-1 in Game 2 … The Muskies are tied with Marietta atop the OAC standings … This season, Kalie Eshelman (.452) and Taylor Gallentine (.412) lead MU in batting average … Eshelman leads MU in hits (28), doubles (7), RBIs (18) and steals (13) … Claire Guilliams has a team-high four home runs … Hannah Smith (11-0, 1.78 ERA, 71 strikeouts) and Madelyn Thomas (6-2, 1.68 ERA, 49 strikeouts) lead the MU pitching staff.
2023 Ohio Northern Batting Leaders:
| Batting Avg. | Hits | Runs | RBI | |||||||||||
| 1. | Rosser | .343 | 1. | Rosser | 23 | 1. | Rosser | 14 | 1. | Rosser | 10 | |||
| 2. | Murray | .302 | 2. | Griffin | 16 | 2. | Motylinski | 13 | 2. | Bican | 9 | |||
| 3. | Elliott | .291 | 3. | Elliott | 15 | 3. | Elliott | 12 | Elliott | 9 | ||||
| Walls | 15 |
2023 Ohio Northern Pitching Leaders:
| Wins | ERA | Strikeouts | ||||||||
| 1. | Lenser | 6 | 1. | Lenser | 2.18 | 1. | Bican | 54 | ||
| 2. | Bican | 4 | 2. | Bican | 4.02 | 2. | Lenser | 32 | ||
All-Time Series: Muskingum leads the all-time series with Ohio Northern by a 77-53 margin … Last season, the teams split a doubleheader in New Concord, as ONU won 5-0 before falling 3-1.
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 145-85-1, a .630 winning percentage.