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Women's basketball successful on and off the court

Undefeated half way through the season
Posted by Monty Siekerman on Thursday, January 19, 2017

This is a story about the highly successful women's basketball program, an article not filled with lots of stats, the latest score, or where they go from here.

Head coach Michele Durand, speaking at the weekly Rotary Club meeting at the Inn on Tuesday, explained why the program is exceptionally successful. She also described how they recruit top notch players and keep them.

Michele, who also gives a lot of credit to assistant coach Mark Huelsman, said prospective students are recruited with four things in mind:
1. Faith and family
2. Success in academics
3. Basketball talent
in that order.

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Ada boys stave off Tigers 71-68

Bulldogs improve to 3-9
Posted by Anne Pannabecke... on Thursday, January 19, 2017

By Cort Reynolds

Senior guard Seth Evans enjoyed a career-best scoring night to lead the host Ada boys basketball team past scrappy Waynesfield 71-68 in a very hard-fought contest Tuesday night.The Bulldogs snapped a six-game losing skid and improved to 3-9 with the non-league victory, while the Tigers dropped to 1-11 following the defeat.

"Evans was definitely a sparkplug; he can shoot," said Ada first-year head coach Dre White. "We knew Waynesfield would give it all they had. Give them credit, they had guys step up and make shots. They made it tough on us and attacked the offensive glass in the first half.

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ONU men’s indoor track and field

Looks to challenge for OAC title in ‘17
Posted by Anne Pannabecke... on Thursday, January 19, 2017

By Caleb Scott

The Ohio Northern men's indoor track and field team will look to compete for an Ohio Athletic Conference title in 2017 under eighth-year head coach Jason Maus. Northern finished second on the conference in both the indoor and outdoor season's a year ago and posted its third consecutive top-3 appearance in the league in both seasons.

Maus welcomes back 22 letterwinners from the 2015-16 seasons. "We like our chances this year in the OAC," said head coach Jason Maus. "We return a nice group from last season and hope to build on the success we had last year."

Here is how the 2017 Polar Bears break down in every event category:

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The latest display at Elzay Gallery of Art

Posted by Monty Siekerman on Thursday, January 19, 2017

There is a piece of white cloth that the sun turned blue in the current exhibit at Elzay Gallery of Art. Impossible?
Emily Jay (pictured) explains that a chemical used by photographers long ago to develop pictures was applied to the white cloth, except where the stars are.
She and a student carried the cloth out into the sun, which because of the chemical, turned the white cloth blue, except for the stars which were covered to keep them white.
Emily knew this would occur because she teaches photography at ONU.
How does a blue cloth with white stars fit into the theme of the show?
Emily said the cloth looks like the ceilings of the cathedrals in Italy.

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T.J. Storer pre-season first team all-American baseball

Posted by Anne Pannabecke... on Thursday, January 19, 2017

By Caleb Scott

Junior T.J. Storer (Loveland/Moeller) has been named Preseason First Team All-America for the 2017 baseball season. Storer led Northern in 2016 with eight saves on the mound, which ranks second best all-time at Ohio Northern in a single season. The junior owns the all-time ONU baseball saves record with 13 career saves.

Storer's 0.49 ERA in 2016 ranks third lowest all-time at Ohio Northern and his career ERA of 1.23 ranks first all-time at Ohio Northern.

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Ada matmen 7th at Spartan Invite

Sumner 2nd at 138
Posted by Anne Pannabecke... on Thursday, January 19, 2017

By Cort Reynolds

The Ada wrestling team finished seventh at the 16-team Spartan Wrestling Invitational at Lima Senior Saturday. Mechaniscsburg won the team competition with 296 points. Spencerville finished just ahead of Ada in sixth place with 107 points, compared to 103 by the Bulldogs.

Ada junior Chase Sumner (2-1 with a bye on the day) was pinned at 5:36 in the 138 lb. finals by Mechanicsburg's Alex Rhine to finish second. Several other Bulldogs had solid showings, led by a pair of freshmen.

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