ONU will play for the OAC crown against No. 3-seeded Wilmington at home in Ada at 3 p.m. on Saturday. The winner gets an automatic bid to the NCAA III tourney.
The No. 5-ranked Ohio Northern women's basketball team used a defensive effort to defeat Marietta 61-60 in Thursday evening's Ohio Athletic Conference Tournament semifinal round to advance to the OAC Tournament championship on Saturday afternoon.
The Polar Bears move to 26-0 overall with the victory.
With Northern up by one point and Marietta in possession of the final shot, junior Amy Bullimore (Morrow/Little Miami) recorded back-to-back blocks to seal the Polar Bear victory.
Daniel Walker (left), president of Kokosing Industrial in Westerville, and Charles Leader, founder of Leader Fabricating in Napoleon, are this year's recipients of distinguished alumni awards from the engineering college. Kokosing is one of the largest contractors in the Midwest with annual sales of $1 billion. Walker is vice chair of the ONU board of trustees. Leader, who grew up on a farm in McComb, holds several patents. His company designs solutions and machines for companies across the United States, Europe, Asia, and Australia
This is the second installment of revealing the history of Ada and ONU through the artifacts that have been passed down family member to family member and estate to collector.
As was revealed in the earlier piece, these collectables may seem so strange to us today but there was a time when a memento of one’s connection to place and/or alma mater was as normal as taking a selfie with the Ada Village sign today.
The artifacts presented in this offering are three china cups of different shapes and sizes, all with the ONU Administration Building and a china plate with the afore mentioned building and four others.
The Ohio Northern men's indoor track and field team is set to compete at the OAC championships at Baldwin Wallace University on Friday and Saturday. The meet will feature all 10 teams in the conference.
The Polar Bears have finished in the top-3 at the championships for the last three seasons.
Northern is coming off of a strong weekend as it competed at both the Ohio State Buckeye Tune Up and the Mount Union Tune Up
