Senior Branden Rushton scored a career-high 31 points to lead the Ohio Northern men's basketball team to an 86-82 victory at Chapman (Calif.) Tuesday afternoon at the Hutton Sports Center.
The Polar Bears win their fourth straight game and improve to 6-4 on the season, while the Panthers fall to 8-4.
Northern finished its Los Angeles-area road trip with a 2-0 record, as ONU topped Caltech 102-69 on Sunday.
Rushton was 12-of-18 from the floor, including 5-of-6 from 3-point range, and shattered his previous career-high of 24 by seven points.
Sophomore Carly Thomas made the game tying and go-ahead free throw with 3.6 seconds left, to give the Ohio Northern women's basketball team a 68-67 victory over No. 8 Wisconsin-Whitewater on Monday afternoon at the D3hoops.com Classic at the South Point Arena in Las Vegas, Nevada.
The Polar Bears improve to 9-2 on the season, while the Warhawks fall to 8-3.
Junior Jordan Kimes finished with a game-high 20 points and seven rebounds.
Thomas added 13 points on 4-of-5 shooting and also pulled down a career-high six rebounds.
This year will be an active one for the Buy Ada First committee. The ad hoc committee has several ideas for promoting Ada in 2014.
Among those includes:
• Buy Ada First Night at ONU Men’s Basketball vs. Wilmington – Jan. 22, 2014
• Continuation of Ada’s “Cash Mob” – first one Tuesday, Feb. 18, 2014 (details coming)
• Expansion of “Music on Main” this summer
• Soup Cook-off this fall (in conjunction with the Halloween parade)
Tentative “Music on Main” dates are the Friday evenings of June 13 and July 11 at the Ada Depot.
“Details on these and other programs will be announced soon,” according to Heather Cox of the group.
The Third District Court of Appeals of Ohio will hear oral arguments in two cases in the Celebrezze Moot Court Room of Ohio Northern University’s Pettit College of Law on Tuesday, Jan. 14, at 10 a.m.
Judges Richard Rogers, Stephen Shaw, Vernon Preston and John Willamowski, sitting in panels of three, will hear oral arguments in two cases pending before the Third District. Rogers, Shaw and Willamowski are alumni of Ohio Northern’s College of Law.
Ada's first American Red Cross blood drive of the year is Monday, Jan. 13. The drive takes place from 11:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. at Ada Visiting Nurses and Hospice, 1200 S. Main St. Ada.
Double red cells who donate blood and enter to win free Kroger groceries for a year.
The second blood drive of the year is Monday, Jan. 20, at Ohio Northern University's McIntosh Center. The drive is from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Double red cells who donate blood, receive a free t-shirt and enter to win free Kroger groceries for a year.
The Ada Area Chamber of Commerce will celebrate the new year with its annual chamber dinner later this month, according to Deb Curlis, chamber president.
This year's dinner is Wednesday, Jan. 15 at The Wishing Well in McIntosh Center on the Ohio Northern University campus. The dinner begins at 6 p.m.
The cost is $15 per person and members may RSVP by mailing the number of persons attending and payment to:
Ada Area Chamber of Commerce
P.O. Box 225
Ada, OH 45810
O, members may drop information and payments to Deb Curlis at Community Health Professionals by Friday, Jan. 10.
Want to really know how cold it is? The Ohio Northern University weather station website can tell you - and it's updated every five minutes. The station is maintained by the Mechanical Engineering Department.
The minimum wage rose 10 cents to $7.95 per hour at the start of the new year. For tipped employees, the new minimum increased 5 cents per hour to $3.98.
The increases were mandated by Ohio voters who in 2006 approved an amendment to the state constitution that links the minimum wage to inflation.
The Consumer Price Index for urban wage earners and clerical workers rose 1.5 percent during the period used to calculate wage increases. A year ago, Ohio's minimum wage jumped 15 cents at the beginning of 2013.
