Volleyball: Mount Union (20-5 overall, 7-1 OAC) at #17 Ohio Northern (19-5 Overall, 7-1 OAC)
Saturday, October 30, 2021, 1 p.m. – ONU Sports Center, Ada, Ohio
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Saturday's Preview: No. 17 Ohio Northern closes out its 2021 regular-season schedule Saturday afternoon with its Senior Day game against Mount Union … ONU and Mount Union are currently tied atop the Ohio Athletic Conference standings, meaning the winner of this game earns the regular-season title and No. 1 seed for the conference tournament … The Polar Bears are coming off Wednesday's 25-19, 25-16, 21-25, 25-19 win over No. 23 Otterbein … Freshman Taylor Baxter led ONU with 12 kills and 6 blocks, while freshman Rachel Jennings added 22 digs … Senior Melina Woods leads the team with 258 kills, which ranks seventh in the OAC … Baxter has an OAC-high 96 blocks, and Jennings ranks second in the OAC with 47 aces and fourth in the OAC with 433 digs … Baxter (.334), Woods (.319) and freshman Erin Wagner (.275) rank third, fourth and seventh, respectively, in the OAC in hitting percentage … Senior Kiki Carle ranks fourth in the OAC with 660 assists, and her 1,818 career assists rank eighth all-time at ONU … Senior Hannah Irmer has 1,269 career digs, which is 139 short of tying Molly Schrader ('99-'02) at 1,408 for 10th on the program's all-time leaderboard in that category … Jennings' 47 aces are tied for the fourth-most by a freshman in program history, and her 433 digs are fifth-most by a freshman in program history … Baxter's 96 blocks are fifth-most by a freshman in program history … Mount Union enters Saturday's game riding a 3-game win streak, including Wednesday's 25-21, 25-27, 25-19, 25-18 win at Baldwin Wallace … The Purple Raiders are 4-2 in road games ... Freshman Heaven Bartell ranks sixth in the OAC with 272 kills … Freshmen Alexis Meyer and Catherine Klopp rank third and fourth, respectively, in the OAC in blocks with 75 and 70 … Junior Alyssa Kasaris ranks third in the OAC in digs with 470.
ONU Statistical Leaders:
| Kills | Blocks | Aces | Digs | Assists | ||||||||||||||
| 1. | Woods | 258 | 1. | Baxter | 96 | 1. | Jennings | 47 | 1. | Jennings | 433 | 1. | Carle | 660 | ||||
| 2. | Baxter | 243 | 2. | Bowmar | 43 | 2. | Baxter | 28 | 2. | H. Irmer | 369 | 2. | Conrad | 257 | ||||
| 3. | Strozewski | 191 | 3. | Strozewski | 39 | 3. | Carle | 20 | 3. | Carle | 166 | 3. | Jennings | 56 |
All-Time Series: Ohio Northern leads the all-time series with Mount Union by a 51-8 margin, including 22-2 in Ada … ONU has won 7 straight games in the series ... UMU's last win over ONU was in 2014 ... The teams' last meeting was a 3-0 ONU home win in November 2019.
Head Coach Katie Kuhn: Kuhn is in her second season as the head women's volleyball coach at Ohio Northern with a 32-8 record (.800 winning percentage), including 20-4 (.833 winning percentage) in OAC play.