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Five ONU athletes receive bids to indoor NCAA championships

Posted by Fred Steiner on Sunday, March 3, 2019

ADA — Five Ohio Northern student/athletes received bids to compete in the 2019 NCAA Division III Indoor Track & Field Championships March 8-9 at the Reggie Lewis Center in Boston, Mass.

Senior All-American Ian McVey (Stow/tow-Munroe Falls), senior Avery Ewing (Kokomo, Ind./Eastern), junior All-American Maggie Krause (Chagrin Falls/Kenston), junior Allison Stevens (Naperville, Ill./Central) and freshman Nate Dean (Euclid/Villa Angela Saint Joseph) will all represent the Polar Bears in the meet.

McVey will compete in the 5,000-meter run with the fifth-fastest time in the country at 14:20.45 and will compete on Friday at 7:45 pm.

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Ada boys scare favored St. Henry but fall short in sectional final

Posted by Fred Steiner on Saturday, March 2, 2019

By Cort Reynolds
COLDWATER - Top seed St. Henry pulled away from upset-minded Ada with big first and fourth quarters to post a hard-fought 64-47 win in boys Div. IV sectional championship action Friday night at Coldwater.

With the loss, the 11th-seeded Bulldogs finished their season 6-18. MAC champion St. Henry (20-3) advanced to the district semifinals at Wapakoneta with the win.

SH outscored Ada by a combined total of 41-20 in the first and fourth periods. But the Bulldogs won the middle quarters, 27-23.

Zach Niekamp, a 6-1 senior, scored 23 of his game-high 27 points in the second half to lead the Redskins to victory.

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Ryan Bruns named first team all-OAC for third time

Posted by LizGH on Thursday, February 28, 2019

By Tim Glon

Ohio Northern senior All-American Ryan Bruns (Chickasaw/Marion Local) was named First Team All-Ohio Athletic Conference in Men's Basketball for the 2018-19 season in voting conducted by the league's 10 head coaches.

Bruns is now a three-time All-OAC honoree, earning First Team honors in 2018 and Second Team honors as a sophomore in 2017.

The 2018 OAC Player of the Year, Bruns concludes his outstanding collegiate career with 1,686 career points, which ranks fourth all-time in program history.

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Bulldog boys win sectional semi rematch over Rangers

Next round Friday vs. St. Henry
Posted by Fred Steiner on Wednesday, February 27, 2019

By Cort Reynolds
COLDWATER - Ada broke away from a halftime tie with a big third quarter and went on to defeat New Knoxville 55-46 in boys Div. IV sectional semifinal play Tuesday night at Coldwater.

The Bulldogs improved to 6-17 with the victory and advanced to the sectional finals against top seed St. Henry Friday.

Meanwhile, the 10th-seeded Rangers end up 3-20 after suffering their eighth consecutive defeat. They lost 13 of their final 14 games after nipping Ads at NK 47-44 Jan. 5.

"It was not the start we were looking for, but we showed up in the second half and did what we needed to do," said Ada third-year head coach Dre White.

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Tia Harris resets indoor shot put record

Posted by LizGH on Wednesday, February 27, 2019

Senior Tia Harris (Newton Falls) reset her own indoor shot put school record and won the individual event title, leading the Ohio Northern women's track and field team to a fifth-place finish on Saturday at the 2019 Ohio Athletic Conference Indoor Track and Field Championships held inside the ONU Sports Center Fieldhouse.

ONU was fifth with 86 team points. Otterbein won the meet with 164.5 points; Mount Union finished second with 149.5 points; and John Carroll rounded out the top-three with 143 points.

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ONU women 3 points short of improbable run

Posted by LizGH on Tuesday, February 26, 2019

The seventh-seeded Ohio Northern women's basketball team nearly completed an improbable run to the NCAA Division III Tournament Saturday, but fell to top-seeded John Carroll 61-58 in the Ohio Athletic Conference Tournament Finals inside the Tony DeCarlo Varsity Center.

Northern ends the season at 15-13 overall after appearing in its third consecutive OAC Tournament Finals, having knocked off second-seeded Baldwin Wallace and third-seeded Marietta to reach the championship game. The Polar Bears became the lowest seed to reach the finals since JCU in 2011, also as a seven seed.

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