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Women's Tennis improves to 4-1 on season with 7-0 victory at Kalamazoo (Mich.)

Women's Tennis improves to 4-1 on season with 7-0 victory at Kalamazoo (Mich.)
Box Score
March 1, 2025

KALAMAZOO, Mich. — The Ohio Northern women's tennis team improved to 4-1 on the seson with a 7-0 victory at Kalamazoo (Mich.) indoors on Saturday afternoon.

The Basics

  • Records: Ohio Northern (4-1 Overall), Kalamazoo (2-3).
  • Venue: Markin Tennis Center - Kalamazoo, Mich.

Highlights

  • Junior Jenna Bell (Latrobe, Pa.) and freshman Lauren Okrainec (Ingersoll, ON, Canada/Homeschool) each went 2-0 on the day to lead the Polar Bears.
  • The Polar Bears won the doubles point by winning at Nos. 1 and 3 doubles.
  • ONU then swept the six singles courts to claim the match.
  • Bell and freshman Caroline Robinson (Indianapolis, Ind./North Central) won at No. 1 doubles 6-4, while Okrainec and senior Miranda Wills (Ada) won 7-5 at No. 3 doubles.
  • Okrainec won 6-4, 6-3 at No. 1 singles.
  • Bell won 7-5, 6-1 at No. 2 singles.
  • Junior Abby Cruser (Pendleton, Ind./Pendleton Heights) won 6-2, 6-1 at No. 3 singles.
  • Junior Jamie Hurst (Granger, Ind./Penn) won 6-1, 6-1 at No. 4 singles.
  • Senior Katherine O'Connell (Novi, Mich./Saint Catherine) won 6-4, 6-2 at No. 5 singles.
  • Freshman Leah Schleibaum (West Chester/Lakota West) won 6-0, 6-1 at No. 6 singles.

Notables

  • Cruser leads the team with an 11-3 singles record, with Hurst second at 10-4.
  • Bell, Okrainec and Schleibaum,each have eight singles wins.
  • Bell and Robinson are a team-best 8-5 in doubles play.
  • Cruser leads the team with a 17-10 overall record.
  • O'Connell leads the team with a career record of 85-30 and needs just 15 more wins to join ONU's 100-Win Club.
  • Third-year head coach Sean Swisher is 37-12 at the helm of the ONU women's tennis team, a winning percentage of .755.

Up Next

  • The Polar Bears will return to action on their annual spring break trip on March 10 against Mary Hardin-Baylor (Tex.) in Orlando, Fla.