Volleyball: #14 Ohio Northern (17-1 Overall, 6-0 OAC) at Heidelberg (15-7 Overall, 3-2 OAC)

Wednesday, October 20, 2021, 7 p.m. – Seiberling Gymnasium, Tiffin, Ohio

Wednesday's Preview: No. 14 Ohio Northern enters Wednesday's match riding an 8-game win streak with 7 of those victories coming by way of 3-0 sweeps … ONU leads the Ohio Athletic Conference standings by a half game over No. 22 Otterbein (5-0) … The Polar Bears are coming off of Saturday's 25-23, 25-14, 25-14 sweep of John Carroll … Sophomore Sydney Eggleton and senior Melina Woods led the way with 11 and 10 kills, respectively … ONU has matched its second-best start in program history through 18 games, tying the 17-1 record from the 1979 season … Northern won a school-record 18 straight games to open the 1990 season … Northern is currently hitting .262 as a team with 13.5 kills, 18.1 digs, 12.5 assists, 2.1 blocks and 1.7 aces per set … Freshman Taylor Baxter leads the team with 187 kills, which ranks 10th in the OAC, and an OAC-high 69 blocks while freshman Rachel Jennings has a team-high 37 aces, which ranks second in the OAC … Senior Hannah Irmer leads ONU with 314 digs, which ranks seventh in the OAC … Freshman Erin Wagner (.405), Baxter (.368) and Woods (.304) rank first, second and fifth, respectively, in the OAC in hitting percentage… Senior Kiki Carle ranks sixth in the OAC in assists with 472 and needs 142 more to reach 1,772 career assists to tie Jill Jolliff ('85-'88) for ninth place on ONU's all-time list … Irmer has 1,214 career digs, which is 194 short of tying Molly Schrader's ('99-'02) 1,408 for 10th on the program's all-time leaderboard in that category … Heidelberg enters Wednesday's match coming off of splitting a Saturday doubleheader, falling 3-0 to Otterbein and getting a 3-0 win over Mount Saint Joseph … Senior Maddie Szawranskyj leads the OAC in aces (51) and is fifth in the OAC in kills (245) … Senior Sarah Oney leads the OAC in digs (437) … Sophomore Anamya Truex ranks second in the OAC in blocks (63).

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All-Time Series: Ohio Northern leads the all-time series with Heidelberg by a 63-10 margin, including 22-8 in Tiffin … The teams' last meeting was a doubleheader in Ada in March as part of the delayed 2020 season, and the Polar Bears won both games by 3-0 scores … HU's last win over ONU was in 2015, as the Polar Bears have won 7 straight games in the series.

Head Coach Katie Kuhn: Kuhn is in her second season as the head women's volleyball coach at Ohio Northern with a 30-4 record (.882 winning percentage), including 19-3 (.864 winning percentage) in OAC play.