The No. 17-ranked Ohio Northern women's soccer team will host the first two rounds of the First Round of the 2019 NCAA III Tournament on Saturday and Sunday at Kershcer Stadium.
The Polar Bears (17-2-2) will host Grove City (Pa.) (12-6-2) in the first round.
The match time will be announced later in the week.
ONU will also host a first round match between Centre (Ky.) and Scranton (Pa.) on Saturday.
Saturday's winners will play on Sunday for a trip to the Sweet 16 on the line.
The Polar Bears are making their fifth NCAA Tournament appearance in program history and their second in the past three seasons.
Ohio Northern wrestling head coach Ron Beaschler enjoyed what he saw out of his young squad last season. They improved as the year wore on, and many of the grapplers performed best toward the end of the season.
Beaschler and the Polar Bears would like more of the same in 2019-20.
"Expectations are to pick up where we left off last year and improve," Beaschler said. "We were young last year. We had a lot of holes, and we filled several of those holes through recruiting. … Guys that got starting opportunities last year need to keep progressing to being better wrestlers this season."
The Public Interest Law Association and the Office of Career and Professional Development at ONU’s Pettit College of Law has tickets for a Saturday, Nov. 16, Purse Bingo evening.
The event is at Center on Central, 111 Central Ave., Ada. Doors open at 5:30 p.m. with Bingo from 6 to 8:30 p.m.
This is a fundraiser. All proceeds go to a scholarship fund for ONU law students who work unpaid public interest jobs during the summer.
The scholarships allow students to work in the public interest sphere while maintaining summer living expenses.
School was not in session on Monday, but Ada area veterans and family members attended an Ada school district sponsored Veterans Day breakfast in the school. Wynn Hauenstein of the Ada VFW post was the speaker. (Photo from Ada Bulldogs Facebook)
Icon note: Several recent letters to the editor on the Icon concern the discontinuance of the Ada High School Winter Guard program. The following information is provided by the Ada Music Boosters to help explain Winter Guard to the general public. The information presented is not to take sides, but to educate others about Winter Guard.
Similar to Color Guard, Winter Guard is a combination of the use of flags, sabers, mock rifles, other equipment, dance, and interpretive movement in a choreographed routine to express emotions and tell stories through their use.
By Barb Lockard
Melody Veltri wasn’t sure what kind of response she’d get when she approached Ada High School students about competing in an Ethics Bowl. Veltri, an English instructor at the school, assumed some interest among high achieving students.
“The students on the Ethics Bowl teams are academically strong, but I didn’t make that a requirement,” said Veltri.
With 10 students expressing an interest, she has formed two teams of five who meet weekly to read cases.
