Women’s Basketball: Ohio Northern (6-2 Overall, 2-1 OAC) at Capital (2-7 Overall, 0-3 OAC)

Saturday, December 18, 2021, 2 p.m. - Capital Center Performance Arena, Columbus, Ohio

Saturday's Preview: The Polar Bears continue their 2021-22 season on Saturday at Ohio Athletic Conference foe Capital at 2 p.m. … The game is part of a women's-men's doubleheader with the men's game beginning at approximately 4 p.m. … The Polar Bears are coming off of Saturday's 59-35 home win over Mount Union … ONU led 16-3 at the end of the first quarter and 33-12 at halftime en route to the 24-point victory … Northern got 10 points each from senior Molly Palecek and sophomore Kristen Luersman and eight points apiece from freshmen Layla Dials and Brooke Allen, all of whom came off the bench … ONU is averaging 62.1 points per game and allowing 52.0 points per contest … The Polar Bears are shooting 38.2% from the field, 29.3% on 3-pointers and 70.0% from the foul line … Northern currently has 6 players averaging between 5 and 9 points per game in what is a balanced offensive attack … Senior Alissa Stahler (8.8 points per game) leads ONU in scoring followed by Luersman (7.5) and junior Brynn Serbin (7.5) … Stahler's team-high 6.3 rebounds per game ranks eighth in the OAC … Serbin's 27 steals on the season leads the OAC, and her 22 assists rank second in the conference … Serbin's 101 career steals are just 3 shy of tying Joanna Snyder ('10-'13) for 20th on the program's all-time leaderboard … Sophomore Kasey Knippen has made a team-high 7 3-pointers, and her 3-point percentage of 58.3 is tied for first in the OAC … Following Saturday's game, ONU will play a two-game set in the Bluffton Classic against St. Mary's (Ind.) and Geneva (Pa.) on Dec. 29-30 … Capital is coming off of Saturday's 73-55 loss at No. 4 John Carroll … Freshman Maddi Weiland and sophomore Maddie Dougoud led the Comets with 11 points each … Capital is averaging 57.9 points per game while allowing 65.8 points per contest … The Comets are shooting 40.2% from the floor, 34.1% on 3-pointers and 61.6% from the foul line … Senior Emma Burns (16.3 points per game), junior Erika Linder (14.7) and freshman Laney Murphy (10.4) are averaging double-figure scoring for CU … Dougoud leads the team in rebounding with 5.1 per game … Murphy has made an OAC-high 19 3-pointers this season on 35.8% shooting from beyond the arc … Freshman Nicole Flock's team-high 20 assists rank fourth in the OAC … Flock and senior Brooke Ommert are tied for seventh in the OAC with 13 steals.

ONU Statistical Leaders:

All-Time Series: Ohio Northern trails the all-time series with Capital by a 36-58 margin, including an 11-38 mark on the road … CU has won 6 of the past 7 meetings … The teams last met in February in the delayed 2020 season where CU won both games of a home-and-home doubleheader by scores of 48-45 and 61-54.

Head Coach Mark Huelsman: Huelsman is in his second season at ONU and has an overall record of 13-10, a winning percentage of .565.