By Monty Siekerman
Good fortune awaited Susan Putt who was a contestant on Wheel of Fortune, which was telecast Thursday evening. Susan, a retired ONU English professor, won a trip to Iceland and cash prizes that totaled $24,168.
She mentioned Ohio Northern as her former place of employment and cheerily said, “Go ‘Bears” when host Pat Sajak introduced her.
She acknowledged her husband Harold, a retired math prof, along with her sister Judy and friends Becky and Linda who were in the audience to root her on.
By Monty Siekerman
It was a whiteout at King-Horn Saturday when the men’s basketball team played Capital and those attending opened their wallets and purses to give to cystic fibrosis research.
The appeal for funds hoped to raise about $2,000, bringing the total to near $50,000 since the CF fundraisers began at Northern. The whiteout included white shirts and towels for spectators.
The team was dressed in white except for a touch of orange. Even the polar bear was appropriately dressed in white, but Klondike always is.
Ada 4th grade students attended the ONU men's basketball game Saturday as part of the Books with Benz reading incentive. The students were honored at halftime, then received shirts signed by the team after the game. Earlier this year, Coach Rich Bensman and several players visited the 4th graders at the elementary and spoke to them about the importance of reading. In the game, ONU easily defeated Capital.
The Ohio Northern indoor track and field team scattered across the Midwest on Saturday, competing successfully in three separate meets.
The Polar Bears had athletes at the Indiana Relays, hosted by Big 10 member Indiana, the Findlay Open, hosted by NCAA Divison II foe Findlay, and the SPIRE Midwest Open, a meet in Geneva consisting primarily of NCAA Division II and III schools.
Junior Maddy Reed (Piketon) had an impressive performance against Division I competition, tying for third in the pole vault at the Indiana Relays at Gladstein Fieldhouse Bloomington, Ind.
The No. 8-ranked Ohio Northern men's indoor track and field team had outstanding performances at the SPIRE Midwest Open in Geneva and the Findlay Open in Findlay on Saturday.
The Polar Bears had athletes at the Findlay Open, hosted by NCAA Division II foe Findlay, and the SPIRE Midwest Open, a meet in Geneva consisting primarily of NCAA Division II and III schools.
Senior All-American Matt Molinaro (Sterling Heights, Mich./De LaSalle) won the the 800-meter run at the SPIRE Midwest Open.
Molinaro finished first out of 83 runners in the event in 4:14.16.
Junior Ian McVey (Stow/Stow-Munroe Falls) finished seventh in the 3,000-meter run in 8:31.32.
