Volleyball: Ohio Northern (15-6 Overall, 5-1 OAC) at Muskingum (14-6 Overall, 3-3 OAC)

Saturday, Oct. 22, 2022, 1 p.m. – Steele Center, New Concord, Ohio

Saturday's Preview: Ohio Northern continues Ohio Athletic Conference play on Saturday at Muskingum … The Polar Bears are in a three-way tie atop the OAC standings with Otterbein and Marietta … ONU is coming off Wednesday's 3-2 home win over Wilmington with set scores of 24-26, 25-22, 19-25, 25-14, 15-9… Sophomore Erin Wagner recorded a career-high 24 kills to go with 14 kills each from juniors Kaidie Carstensen and Ava Ehlinger … Sophomore Grace Conrad tallied a career-high 56 assists, and sophomore Rachel Jennings added 25 digs … Sophomore Lauren James had a career-high 10 blocks … Entering Saturday's game, Wagner ranks fourth in the OAC with 257 kills and is fifth in the conference with a .296 hitting percentage … Sophomore Sonia Dahlin and Ehlinger rank second and third on the team with 207 and 177 kills, respectively … Jennings ranks fifth in the OAC with 402 digs … Conrad ranks sixth in the OAC with 581 assists … James ranks fourth in the OAC with 67 blocks … Dahlin is tied for eighth in the OAC with 33 aces … Fifth-year senior Hannah Irmer has 1,523 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 (460) and eighth in matches played (124) … Muskingum is coming off Wednesday's 3-0 loss at Mount Union with set scores of 20-25, 16-25, 23-25 … Junior Khloe Taylor led the Muskies with 12 kills, and senior Gracie Collins added 14 digs … On the season, Taylor and junior Lexie Huck lead the team with 196 and 173 kills, respectively … Senior Emma Conrad ranks fifth in the OAC with 625 assists and has a team-high 27 aces … Collins ranks ninth in the OAC with 315 digs … Junior Raegan Flood has a team-best 50 blocks.

ONU Statistical Leaders:

All-Time Series: Ohio Northern leads the all-time series with Muskingum by a 63-15 margin, including a 19-9 mark in New Concord … Muskingum has won two of the past three meetings after ONU had won 22 straight meetings from 2002 to 2019 … In the teams' last meeting, in 2021, ONU came away with a 3-0 sweep with set scores of 25-9, 25-19, 25-12.

Head Coach Katie Kuhn: Kuhn is in her third season as the head women's volleyball coach at Ohio Northern … She owns a 50-15 career record for a winning percentage of .769 and is 26-5 (.839 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.