Women’s Soccer: Otterbein (11-4-3 Overall) at Ohio Northern (12-1-4 Overall) — OAC Tournament Semifinals
Thursday, Nov. 3, 2022, 7 p.m. — Kerscher Stadium, Ada, Ohio
| Game Program (.pdf) | OAC Tournament Page |
Thursday's Preview: No. 2 seed Ohio Northern hosts No. 3 seed Otterbein in Thursday's OAC Tournament semifinals … The other semifinal features No. 1 seed Capital hosting No. 4 seed John Carroll … The winners of the semifinal games will face off in the championship game on Saturday, which will be hosted by the highest remaining seed … Northern won a share of the OAC Regular Season championship with Capital, claiming the ninth such title in program history … The Polar Bears finished unbeaten in conference play for the sixth time in program history … As the No. 2 seed, ONU received a first-round bye in the tournament … Northern has won three of the past five OAC Tournament championships (2017, 2019, 2021) with Otterbein winning the other two (2018, 2020) … ONU is seeking its seventh straight OAC Tournament finals appearance and fifth OAC Tournament championship … Northern played Otterbein to a scoreless draw in the teams' regular-season meeting on Oct. 5 … The Polar Bears are the first team listed in the "Also receiving votes" category in this week's United Soccer Coaches and D3soccer.com polls, putting them at No. 26 in both polls … Northern's lone loss on the season was 2-1 at Case Western Reserve on Sept. 17 … Northern is currently riding a six-game win streak, all of which were shutouts, as part of a larger 11-game unbeaten streak coming off Saturday's 5-0 win at Marietta … The 11-game unbeaten streak is tied with one from 2019 for the fourth-longest such streak in program history … The program's longest unbeaten streaks are 17 games from 2017, 15 games from 2011 and 14 games from 2018 … Junior Bri Straus is the reigning OAC Defensive Player of the Week after scoring a pair of goals and leading an ONU defense that allowed just three shots in two games last week … Through 17 games, 16 different players have scored a goal for ONU, and 19 different players have recorded at least one point … Sophomore Alyssa Beckett ranks eighth in the OAC with eight goals and ninth in the conference with 18 points … Juniors Kylie Cabana and Jill Roberts rank second on the team with five goals each … Sophomore Emma Bowman leads the OAC with nine assists, and Cabana is tied for fourth with six assists … Bowman's assist total ranks third among sophomores in a single season in program history … Senior goalkeeper Becky Moss has an OAC-high 12 shutouts to go with 30 saves, a .789 save percentage and a 0.47 GAA in playing the entirety of all 17 games for ONU this season … Moss leads the OAC in GAA and ranks third in save percentage … Moss is tied for third all-time at ONU for a single season with 12 shutouts and ranks ninth all-time with 12 career shutouts … Otterbein advanced to the OAC Tournament semifinals with Tuesday's 2-1 home win over No. 6 seed Baldwin Wallace … Junior Payton Kaufman scored in the fifth minute, and junior Morgan Somers netted the game-winning goal in the 74th minute … Junior Anjuli Anderson has a team-best five goals, six assists and 16 points on the season … Anderson is tied for fourth in the OAC in assists and tied for 10th in points … Somers has four goals and four assists for 12 points, and freshman Ava Bruns has four goals and three assists for 11 points … Freshman Ella Schwertfager has started 17 games in goal, recording 50 saves, a .769 save percentage and 1.05 GAA … Schwertfager ranks third in the OAC in GAA.
ONU Statistical Leaders:
| Goals | Assists | Points | Saves | GAA | ||||||||||||||
| 1. | Beckett | 8 | 1. | Bowman | 9 | 1. | Beckett | 18 | 1. | Moss | 30 | 1. | Moss | 0.47 | ||||
| 2. | Roberts | 5 | 2. | Cabana | 6 | 2. | Cabana | 16 | ||||||||||
| 3. | Cabana | 5 | 3. | Clampitt | 3 | 3. | Roberts | 13 | ||||||||||
| Roberts | 3 |
Series Record: Ohio Northern leads the all-time series with Otterbein by a 22-18-4 margin, including a 9-7-3 mark in Ada … Otterbein holds a 5-3-1 edge in OAC Tournament meetings … The teams have met in the OAC Tournament in each of the past five seasons ... The teams played to a scoreless draw in Ada during their regular-season meeting on Oct. 5.
Head Coach Mark Batman: Batman is in his 19th season with the ONU women's soccer program … He is the winningest head coach in program history with an overall coaching record of 251-90-39 for a winning percentage of .695 … A five-time OAC Coach of the Year honoree, Batman owns a career mark of 136-24-11 in conference play for a winning percentage of .817 to go with four OAC Tournament championships and six NCAA Tournament appearances.
