By Monty Siekerman
Nearly 100 high school students – from Tipp City to Toledo – participated in a Model UN on the ONU campus on Saturday.
Before arriving in Ada, the students were given a country to represent and studied that nation, especially its politics. Then, on campus, the students voted in a mock General Assembly how they thought the country they represented would vote.
The difficult issues discussed were:
• Nuclear disarmament and non-profileration;
• Children in armed conflict;
• Terrorism, cybersecurity and the threat of cyberwarfare.
ADA -- Freshman Zachary Yoder (Goshen, Ind./Northridge) scored with 1:53 left in regulation to rally the Ohio Northern men's soccer team to a 1-1 tie on Senior Night on Saturday night at Kerscher Stadium.
The Polar Bears wrap up their regular season with a 12-5-2 overall record and are 5-3-1 in Ohio Athletic Conference play, while the Pioneers move to 10-5-3, 4-3-2.
ONU will be the No. 4 seed and Marietta will be the No. 5 seed in next week's OAC Tournament.
The two teams will meet again in the quarterfinals on Tuesday at 7 pm at Kerscher Stadium.
ADA -- Junior Will Freed (Carlsbad, Calif./San Marcos) threw for 245 yards and three touchdowns, but his final TD was called back due to a penalty and the Ohio Northern football team fell 35-28 to Marietta on a chilly Saturday afternoon at Dial-Roberson Stadium.
The Polar Bears fall to 5-3 overall and 4-3 in the Ohio Athletic Conference, while the Pioneers improve to 5-3, 4-3.
Freed was 17-of-32 passing for 245 yards, but his 16-yard TD strike to sophomore Rodney Holmes (Miami, Fla./Hallandale) with 37 seconds left in the game appeared to pull ONU within 35-34, but it was called back on a hands to the face penalty on the home team.
TIFFIN — For the first time in school history, the Ohio Northern men's cross country team claimed its third consecutive Ohio Athletic Conference Championship as junior Ian McVey (Stow/Munroe Falls) claimed the OAC Individual title and senior Matt Molinaro(Sterling Heights, Mich./De La Salle) finished as the runner up to lead the Polar Bears.
The Polar Bears (80-17 overall) won the team title with 33 team points, while Mount Union was second with 61 points and John Carroll rounded out the top-3 with 64 points.
TIFFIN — Senior Emily Richards (Delware/Hayes) and junior Ashlie Baumann (Sterling Heights, Mich./Stevenson) each earned First Team All-OAC honors to lead the Ohio Northern women's cross country team to a fourth place finish at the OAC Championships on Saturday afternoon at the Clinton Heights Golf Course.
The Polar Bears move to 67-29 on the year.
Richards earned runners up honors after she finished second of 120 runners in 22:04.4, while Baumann finished sixth overall in 22:42.9.
