The No. 20-ranked Ohio Northern volleyball team will travel to Grand Rapids, Mich., and will face No. 18 Wisconsin-Whitewater in the First Round of the 64-team NCAA Division III Tournament on Thursday.
Times for the four first round matches will be released later in the week.
The Polar Bears (22-7 overall) earned the Ohio Athletic Conference's automatic bid after winning the OAC Tournament title on Saturday under 28th-year head coach Kate Witte.
The Warhawks (24-7 overall) qualified for the NCAA Tournament as an at-large after falling to No. 4 Wisconsin-Eau Claire in the Wisconsin Intercollegiate Athletic Conference Tournament finals.
WESTERVILLE — Top-seeded Otterbein scored on a rebound just 57 seconds into overtime to edge the second-seeded Ohio Northern women's soccer team 1-0 in the finals of the Ohio Athletic Conference Tournament Saturday night at Memorial Stadium.
The Polar Bears (14-4-1 overall) must now wait until Monday's NCAA III selection show to find out if their season will continue in the NCAA Tournament.
ONU was playing in its fourth consecutive trip to the tournament finals, winning the title last season.
The Cardinals (16-2-1) won their sixth OAC Tournament.
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. - Senior Kierra Watson and junior Lauren Halle each registered multiple individual top-10 efforts Saturday as the Ohio Northern women's swimming and diving program concluded its weekend at the Calvin (Mich.) Invitational in Grand Rapids, Michigan.
The Polar Bears ended fifth overall in the five-team meet after posting 384.5 team points over the two-day event. No. 16-ranked Calvin won the meet with 964.5 points while Albion (Mich.), Carthage (Wisc.), and Hope (Mich.) ended second-through-fourth with 819.5, 777.5, and 520 points, respectively.
Here’s how the teams placed: Calvin, first; Albion, second; Carthage, third; Hope, fourth; ONU, last.
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. - The Ohio Northern men's swimming and diving program concluded their stay at the Calvin (Mich.) Invitational Saturday, November 3, claiming 10 total top-five finishes to end the weekend fourth in a five-team field in Grand Rapids, Mich.
Senior Pete He and freshman Jeremy Adams headlined Northern's day two performances, each earning runner-up honors.
UNIVERSITY HEIGHTS — The fifth-seeded Ohio Northern men's soccer team played to a scoreless draw with top-seeded John Carroll for 110 minutes and were still even through the five regulation rounds of penalty kicks in the OAC Tournament finals on Saturday evening at Don Shula Stadium.
But the host Blue Streaks edged the Polar Bears 5-4 in the second extra round of penalty kicks to win the OAC Tournament title in seven rounds of PKs.
The match is counted as a scoreless tie, with JCU advancing in the tournament on penalty kicks.
