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1984 volleyball squad won 26 straight

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The 1984 Hardin Northern volleyball team was inducted into the Hardin County Sports Hall of Fame during a banquet Saturday at USV High School.

The team won 28 straight matches before dropping the only match of the season in the Class A state finals to bring home the state runner-up trophy.

Members of the team included Lisa Haudenschield, Michelle Hackworth, Holly Lowery, Tonya Crowe, Jill Jolliff, Jolene Jolliff, Patty Baird, Kathy Lenhart, Deana Dillon, Lisa Hipsher, Kelly Halsey, and Mindy Clark.

Beth Elwood served as head coach; Sue Fetzer, assistant coach; Melissa Stair, manager; Laura Wagner, statistician.

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By Cassie Collins

The Hardin County Family YMCA will offer both aquacize classes and swim
lessons starting in June through the help of the Kenton Municipal Pool. Aquacize classes
will be MWF 8:45-9:45, and swim lessons will be TTH 8:45-9:45.

For pricing and any other questions, call 419-673-6131.

(Ken Collins photos)

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Ada junior Noah Mattson won the shot put and finished second in the discus
last week at the NWC track and field championship meet in Spencerville.
(Sue Mattson photo)

Upper-division finishes in nine of the 11 OAC sponsored sports

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Ohio Northern won the Ohio Athletic Conference Women's All-Sports Trophy for the 2017-18 season. There are 10 teams in the OAC. The men finished a strong second.

This marks the third consecutive title and the 12th crown overall for the Polar Bear women's teams.

ONU edged Otterbein 80.50-78.50 on the strength of OAC titles in volleyball, soccer, basketball, outdoor track and field and softball.

Northern also finished second in tennis and indoor track and field.

In all, ONU posted upper-division finishes in nine of the 11 OAC sponsored sports in 2017-18.

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ONU senior Lynn Kelly (Mason), junior Ashley Ochsenhirt (Birmingham, Ala.) and freshman Sabine Worthoff (West Chester) were named All-Ohio Athletic Conference in women's tennis for 2018 in voting conducted by the league's nine head coaches.

Kelly and Ochsenhirt were First Team honorees and Worthoff named to the Second Team.

Kelly is now the seventh Polar Bear to be named All-Conference in women's tennis four times. She was a First Team pick the past three seasons and a Second team pick as a freshman in 2015.

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Aaron Krepps of Ada has been promoted to head football coach of the Bluffton University Beavers. He was an assistant coach at ONU for two years before joining the Bluffton team a year ago. Aaron and his wife, Lauren, and infant daughter, Harlow, live in Ada.

He replaces Denny Dorrel who resigned after four season to become the Athletics Director at Franklin County High School, his alma mater, in Brookville, Ind. Krepps previously served as the offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach for the Beavers.

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