Volleyball: #21 Ohio Northern (7-3 Overall) at Bluffton (2-9 Overall)
Tuesday, September 17, 2019, 7 pm - Sommer Center, Bluffton, Ohio
Saturday's Preview: The No. 21-ranked Ohio Northern volleyball team will travel to area-rival Bluffton for a 7 pm match on Tuesday ... This will mark the second time that ONU and BU have met in the Sommer Center this season, as the Polar Bears defeated the Beavers 25-20, 25-15, 25-20 in the Sommer Spiketacular on Sept. 7 ... Freshmen Madison Kern and Megan Mahon led ONU with 8 and 7 kills, respectively ... ONU is coming off a 1-1 record at the Wittenberg Fall Classic on Saturday ... Northern defeated No. 4-ranked Berry (Ga.) and fell to No. 15 Wisconsin-Whitewater ... Senior All-American Chelsea Huppert led the Polar Bears with 23 kills and 11 blocks in the two matches ... Huppert, Mahon and Kern lead a balanced ONU offensive attack with 75, 75, 72 kills this season ... Kern leads the OAC with 43 blocks and is 1-2 in the league ... Huppert is second in the league with a 1.04 blocks per set average ... Hostetler is fourth tin the OAC with 214 digs and junior Katie Wade is third in the league with an average of 9.15 assists per set ... Huppert has 1,100 career kills and needs just 39 kills to tie Cari Treisch for 10th place on ONU's all-time career kills list with 1,141 ... Huppert already ranks third all-time with a career .337 hitting percentage and 105 career block solos and is eighth with 315 total blocks ... Wade is seventh in ONU history with 2,657 career assists ... Bluffton is coming off a 1-3 record at the Wooster Kilt Classic ... The Beavers defeated Oberlin and fell to Baldwin Wallace, Pitt-Bradford and Wooster ... Juniors Remi Bower and Sarah Heydinger lead BU with 125 and 88 kills, respectively ... Bower also leads the team with 17 blocks.
ONU Statistical Leaders:
| Kills | Blocks | Aces | Digs | Assists | ||||||||||||||
| 1. | Huppert | 75 | 1. | Kern | 43 | 1. | Lam | 16 | 1. | Hostetler | 214 | 1. | Wade | 247 | ||||
| Mahon | 75 | 2. | Huppert | 29 | 2. | Irmer | 13 | 2. | Hall | 112 | 2. | Carle | 131 | |||||
| 3. | Kern | 72 | 3. | Ellis | 18 | 3. | Hall | 10 | 3. | Iemer | 82 | 3. | Hostetler | 23 |
All-Time Series: Ohio Northern leads the all-time series with Bluffton by a 66-13 margin ... ONU has won 11 consecutive matches against BU since 2012, including a 25-20, 25-15, 25-20 win at Bluffton on Sept. 7.
Head Coach Kate Witte: Witte is currently in her 29th and final season as the head women's volleyball coach at Ohio Northern … She has a coaching record of 722-238, a win percentage of .752 ... She is the school's all-time wins leader and has announced her retirement at the end of the 2019 season.