Freshman Hunter Kauser (Paulding/Exempted Village) homered off the first pitch he saw in his collegiate career on Monday to lead the Ohio Northern baseball team in its 9-4 loss to Immaculata (Pa.) in the RussMatt Invitational tournament at Northeast Regional Park in Davenport, FL.
More than 75 volunteers made nearly 16,000 transportable rice, soy, and vegetable meals during a February event at ONU. Part of the God Always Provides (GAP) food packaging program, missionaries provide the meals to combat hunger and malnourishment. Full story at onu.edu/news.
On March 1, the Ada Schools began taking appications for open enrollment for the 2022-2023 school year. The schools will take applications through May 13. Acceptance or transfer by applicants must be indicated by July 1.
The inter-district open enrollment guidelines state:
"No student, once accepted by the Ada Exempted Village Schools, will be displaced should enrollment exceed any stated limits. Native Ada students will have priority over transferring inter-district open enrollment student.
Christian Groman, who grew up in Bluffton, Ohio and is currently studying Mechanical Engineering at Ohio Northern University, spoke to the Icon about his family members who live in western Ukraine and their experiences since the invasion by Russian forces began on February 24, 2022. Some 1.5 million Ukrainians have fled the county at the time of this report.
Icon: Are your family members still in their own homes?
Groman: My grandparents live in western Ukraine, 15 minutes from the Hungarian border…. But they are housing three families from eastern Ukraine.
Icon: My understanding is that Ukraine is almost the size of Texas.
The Ohio Northern baseball team enters its 2022 season with a young roster, but 11th-year head coach Gene Stechschulte is excited about the group's potential.
"This will be the first season since my first year at ONU that there's going to be question marks at most of the positions," Stechschulte said. "There's a mix of excitement and not knowing how things are going to work out because we haven't seen many of our younger guys in games yet. It'll certainly be different, but with that comes excitement."
