Volleyball: Wilmington (8-15 Overall, 1-4 OAC) at Ohio Northern (14-6 Overall, 4-1 OAC)

Wednesday, Oct. 19, 2022, 7 p.m. – ONU Sports Center, Ada, Ohio

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Wednesday's Preview: Ohio Northern continues Ohio Athletic Conference play on Wednesday hosting Wilmington … The Polar Bears are in a three-way tie atop the OAC standings with Otterbein and Marietta … ONU is coming off Saturday's 3-1 loss at John Carroll with set scores of 17-25, 22-25, 25-17, 21-25, which ended a four-game win streak … The win was JCU's first over ONU since 2001 … Sophomore Sonia Dahlin led ONU with 15 kills to go with nine apiece from junior Kaidie Carstensen and sophomore Erin Wagner and eight from junior Ava Ehlinger … Sophomore Rachel Jennings tallied 23 digs, and sophomore Grace Conrad added 23 assists … Entering Wednesday's game, Wagner ranks fourth in the OAC with 233 kills and a .301 hitting percentage … Dahlin and Ehlinger rank second and third on the team with 201 and 163 kills, respectively … Jennings ranks fifth in the OAC with 377 digs … Conrad ranks sixth in the OAC with 525 assists … Sophomore Lauren James ranks seventh in the OAC with 57 blocks … Dahlin is tied for seventh in the OAC with 32 aces … Fifth-year senior Hannah Irmer has 1,508 career digs, which ranks ninth on the program's all-time list and is 15th among active Division III players … Irmer ranks fourth among active Division III players in sets played (455) and eighth in matches played (123) … Wilmington is coming off Friday's 3-1 loss to Marietta with set scores of 20-25, 25-21, 21-25, 22-25 … Junior Sofia Thomas and senior Sydney Geibel led the Quakers with 17 and 11 kills, respectively, to go with 19 digs from junior Blake O'Brien … WC has lost four of its last five games, including three straight … Through 23 games, Thomas and Geibel lead WC with 188 and 140 kills, respectively … O'Brien leads the OAC with 502 digs … Sophomore Andie Dolven ranks fourth in the OAC with 604 assists … Freshman Bailey Pohlman is tied for ninth in the OAC with 52 blocks.

ONU Statistical Leaders:

All-Time Series: Ohio Northern leads the all-time series with Wilmington by a 32-0 margin, including a 10-0 mark in Ada … ONU has recorded 28 sweeps in the series, which dates back to 1977 … ONU is riding a streak of nine straight sweeps of WC, including the teams' lone meeting in 2021.

Head Coach Katie Kuhn: Kuhn is in her third season as the head women's volleyball coach at Ohio Northern … She owns a 49-15 career record for a winning percentage of .766 and is 25-5 (.833 winning percentage) in Ohio Athletic Conference games … She was named OAC Coach of the Year and AVCA Region 7 Coach of the Year in 2021 after leading the Polar Bears to OAC Regular Season and Tournament championships.