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ONU volleyball team receives 116 votes in recent poll

Posted by Monty Siekerman on Tuesday, September 12, 2017

By Tim Glon

ADA — The Ohio Northern volleyball team received votes in the second weekly American Volleyball Coaches Association poll, released Tuesday afternoon.

The Polar Bears (6-2) received 116 points in the poll, which is 19 fewer than the 135 they received as the No. 25-ranked team. ONU received the 29th-most votes in the poll.

Calvin (Mich.) topped the poll for the second consecutive week with 1,675 points and all 67 first place votes, Southwestern (Tex.) is second with 1,564 points and Wittenberg is third with 1,543 points.

Northern was ranked No. 22 in the preseason poll in July and was No. 25 in last week's poll.

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Ada golf and soccer updates

Posted by Monty Siekerman on Tuesday, September 12, 2017

Lancer golfers win tri-match

By Cort Reynolds

VAN WERT - Lincolnview won a four-team golf match of Northwest Conference foes Monday evening at the Hickory Sticks course.

 

The Lancers totaled 171 strokes to beat Crestview (196), Delphos Jefferson (206) and Ada (236).

 

Ada was led by freshman Brevin Sizemore, who shot a nine-hole score of 54. Alex Morgan carded a 58 to finish second for the Bulldogs. Junior Austin Amburgey posted a 60 and Ethan Hull registered a 64.

 

Jake Colwell shot 70 and Rob Allison added a total of 72.

 

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Season Preview: Men's Tennis looks to take step forward in 2017-18

Posted by Monty Siekerman on Tuesday, September 12, 2017

By Caleb Scott

ADA — The Ohio Northern men's tennis team will look to continue to move forward and challenge for an Ohio Athletic Conference title in 2017-18 under the guidance of second-year head coach Mike Bonnell.

In his first season as Ohio Northern's first full-time men's tennis head coach, Bonnell guided the Polar Bears to an 11-11 mark and a sixth place finish in the Ohio Athletic Conference.

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Junior Joseph Schulte named Men's Soccer OAC Player of the Week

Posted by Monty Siekerman on Monday, September 11, 2017

By Caleb Scott

ADA — Ohio Northern junior Joseph Schulte (Copley) has been named the Ohio Athletic Conference Men's Soccer Player of the Week for the week of Sept. 3-9.

He earns the honor for the first time in his career.

Schulte led the Polar Bears (3-1-1 overall) to the ONU Invitational title and a perfect 3-0-0 week.

The junior scored a goal in all three of Northern's victories during the week and added an assist in ONU's 2-1 victory over Wittenberg on Sept. 6.

Schulte currently leads the team and ranks second in the OAC with three goals and seven points.

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Women's Golf finishes second at 4-team Ohio Wesleyan Fall Invitational

Posted by Monty Siekerman on Monday, September 11, 2017

By Tim Glon

POWELL — Freshman Lydia Cranmer (Farmington Hills, Mich./Ladywood), Junior Caitlin Silva (Hilliard/Bradley) and junior Suzanne Short (Findlay) all posted top-10 finishes to lead the Ohio Northern women's golf team to a second place finish at the Ohio Wesleyan Fall Invitational Saturday and Sunday at Safari Golf Course.

The Polar Bears (4-1) finished with a 356-339—695 on the par-72, 5823-yard course.

Wooster won the team title with a 333-326—659, Ohio Wesleyan was third with a 379-345—164 and Heidelberg was fourth with a 372-353—725.

Cranmer fired an 87-82—169 to finish sixth out of 32 golfers.

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Ada runs at Spencerville

Posted by Monty Siekerman on Monday, September 11, 2017

By Cort Reynolds

SPENCERVILLE - The short-handed Ada cross country teams competed at the Spencerville Invitational last Saturday morning.

 

"We had small teams due to the fair and other various events going on this weekend, so we only had eight kids run at Spencerville," explained Ada head coach Joshua Klein.

 

Hunter Wells placed 70th in a field of 138 with a time of 20:37.9 to pace the Bulldog boys. Jacob Morgan finished 90th with a time of 21:52.1 over the 3.1-mile course.

 

The Ada girls fielded a full team, including Abbie James and Olivia Ennis. The Lady Bulldogs finished 10th out of 11 teams.

 

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