Women’s Basketball: Mount Union (2-4 Overall, 1-2 OAC) at Ohio Northern (5-2 Overall, 1-1 OAC)

Saturday, December 11, 2021, 2 p.m. - ONU Sports Center, Ada, Ohio

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Saturday's Preview: The Polar Bears continue their 2021-22 season on Saturday hosting Ohio Athletic Conference foe Mount Union at 2 p.m. … The game is part of a women's-men's doubleheader with the men's game against Mount Union beginning at approximately 4 p.m. … Saturday's game is ONU's only one at home in the month of December … The Polar Bears are coming off of Wednesday's 55-49 win at Wilmington … The tightly contested game saw WC lead 17-14 at the end of the first quarter and ONU take a 26-25 edge into halftime … The Polar Bears led 41-33 going into the fourth quarter and held on for the win after WC pulled within one on a pair of occasions … Senior Alissa Stahler led the way with a 17-point, 13-rebound double-double … Stahler's 13 rebounds were a career high … Junior Brynn Serbin added 14 points, 7 rebounds, 6 steals and 3 assists … Serbin's 6 steals tied a career high and put her career total at 100, which is just 4 shy of tying Joanna Snyder ('10-'13) for 20th on the program's all-time leaderboard … ONU is averaging 62.6 points per game and allowing 54.4 points per contest … The Polar Bears are shooting 37.8% from the field, 28.1% on 3-pointers and 69.7% from the foul line … Northern currently has 7 players averaging between 5 and 10 points per game in what is a balanced offensive attack … Stahler (9.4 points per game) leads ONU in scoring followed by Serbin (8.0) and senior Jaidyn Hale (7.4) … Stahler's team-high 6.7 rebounds per game ranks seventh in the OAC … Serbin's 26 steals on the season leads the OAC and her 20 assists rank second in the conference … Sophomore Kasey Knippen has made a team-high 7 3-pointers, and her 3-point percentage of 58.3 is tied for first in the OAC … Mount Union is coming off of Wednesday's 69-56 home loss to No. 4 John Carroll … Junior Emma Cannon led the Purple Raiders with 17 points and was 7-for-7 from the foul line … Mount is averaging 59.2 points per game while allowing 65.6 points per contest … The Purple Raiders are shooting 34.1% from the floor, 24.4% on 3-pointers and 69.2% from the foul line … Cannon (11.2 points per game) and senior Isi Palamone (8.2) lead the team in scoring … Cannon ranks fifth in the OAC in scoring average … Palamone is averaging a team-high 6.4 rebounds per game, which ranks eighth in the OAC.

ONU Statistical Leaders:

All-Time Series: Ohio Northern leads the all-time series with Mount Union by a 45-35 margin, including a 28-14 mark at home … ONU has won 16 of the past 18 meetings … The teams last met in the 2019-20 OAC Tournament quarterfinals where ONU came away with a 58-50 win.

Head Coach Mark Huelsman: Huelsman is in his second season at ONU and has an overall record of 12-10, a winning percentage of .545.