By Zaji Lieberman

The Ohio Northern women's soccer team is ranked No. 19 in the fourth weekly 2012 Continental Tire/NSCAA Men's Division III poll and is No. 21 in the fourth weekly D3soccer.com poll, which were released on Tuesday.

In the NSCAA poll, the Polar Bears (5-0-3) were ranked No. 20 in the third and second polls, were ranked No. 18 in the first weekly poll, were ranked No. 12 in the 2012 preseason poll and were No. 13 in the final 2011 NSCAA poll.

Emory (Ga.) is ranked No. 1, Trinity (Tex.) is second and Messiah (Pa.) is third.

In the D3soccer.com poll, Ohio Northern received 113 points and were ranked No. 22 in last week's poll.

Emory (Ga.) is ranked No. 1, Trinity (Tex.) is second and Messiah (Pa.) is third.

Last week, Northern had a tie againest Denison (1-1) and defeated Thomas More (Ky.) 1-0.

ONU has now been nationally ranked in each of the last two seasons.

The Polar Bears will return to action Wednesday with a 4 pm match against Wittenberg.

NSCAA Division III Women's Poll - #4
Sept. 25, 2012

Rank School 2012 Record Last Week
1. Emory (Ga.) 6-0-2 2
2. Trinity (Tex.) 6-0-1 3
3. Messiah (Pa.) 6-1-1 3
4. Hardin-Simmons (Tex.) 6-0-1 5
5. Wheaton (Ill.) 7-1-0 1
6. Amherst (Mass.) 4-0-1 6
7. Ithaca (N.Y.) 8-0-0 8
8. Middlebury (Vt.) 5-0-1 9
9. Lynchburg (Va.) 8-1-1 11
10. William Smith (N.Y.) 6-1-1 10
11. Washington (Mo.) 7-1-0 12
12. Centre (Ky.) 8-0-0 13
13. Virginia Wesleyan 8-0-1 14
14. Misericordia (Pa.) 6-1-1 21
15. Wisconsin-Oshkosh 6-0-2 18
16. Wheaton (Mass.) 6-0-2 19
17. John Hopkins (Md.) 6-2-1 6
18. Montclair State (N.J.) 8-0-1 NR
19. Ohio Northern 5-0-3 20
20. Brandeis (Mass.) 7-1-0 24
21. Stevens (N.J.) 6-1-0 RV
22. Wartburg (Iowa) 6-1-2 23
23. New Jersey 7-1-0 16
24. Alma (Mich.) 6-1-1 NR
25. Wisconsin-Platteville  8-1-1 NR
Others Receiving Votes: Hiram, Muhlenberg (Pa.), University of Rochester (N.Y.), Salisbury (N.J.), Stevens (Ill.),

D3soccer.com Women's Poll - #4

Sept. 25, 2012

Rank
School (1st Pl. Votes)
2012
Record
Pts.
Last
Week
1. Emory (Ga.) (14) 6-0-2 601 2
2. Trinity (Tex.) (10) 6-0-1 596 3
3. Messiah (Pa.) 6-1-1 561 4
4.  Hardin-Simmons (Tex.) 6-0-1 511 7
5. Wheaton (Ill.) 7-1-0 500 1
6. Lynchburg (Va.) 8-0-1 481 6
7. William Smith (N.Y.) 6-1-1 479 5
8. Ithaca (N.Y.) (1) 5-1-1 440 9
9. Virginia Wesleyan 8-0-1 418 10
10. Middlebury (Vt.) 5-0-1 410 12
11. Amherst (Mass.) 4-0-1 388 13
12. Centre (Ky.) 8-0-0 366 14
13. University of Washington 7-1-0 337 16
14. Wisconsin-Oshkosh 7-0-2 231 18
15. Johns Hopkins (Md.) 6-2-1 216 8
16. New Jersey 7-1-0 207 11
17. Wheaton (Mass.) 6-0-2 170 19
18. Brandeis (Mass.) 7-1-0 145 25
19. Montclair State (N.J.) 7-0-1 140 -
20. Wartburg (Iowa) 6-1-2 117 20
21. Ohio Northern 5-0-3 113 22
22. Bowdoin (Maine) 4-1-0 110 23
23. Union (N.Y.) 6-1-0 96 17
24. Misericordia (Pa.) 6-1-1 76 24
25. Alma (Mich.) 6-1-1 65 -
Others Receiving Votes:  Linfield (Ore.) 55, Aurora (Ill.) 54, Carnegie Mellon (Pa.) 44, Kean (N.J.) 31, Brockport State (N.Y.) 30, Grove City (Pa.) 21, Mass-Boston 16, Haverford (Pa.) 14, Augustana (Ill.) 11, Dickinson (Pa.) 11, Thomas More (Ky.) 10, Hope (Mich.) 9, Stevens (Wis.) 9, New Paltz State (N.Y.) 8, Gordon (Mass.) 7, Puget Sound (Wash.) 5, St. Lawrence (N.Y.) 4, California Lutheran 4, Rowan (N.J.) 3, St. Vincent (Pa.) 2, Hamilton (N.Y.) 1, Meredith (N.C.) 1, Loras (Iowa) 1.