MARIETTA — Marietta converted a 2-point conversion with 22 seconds left in the game to rally past Ohio Northern 43-42 on a beautiful Saturday afternoon at Don Drumm Stadium.
Junior Anthony McFadden (Chillicothe/Paint Valley) completed 18-of-29 passes for 261 yards and four touchdowns and senior Chad Rex (Bradenton, Fla./Lakewood Ranch) caught 10 passes for 156 yards and two touchdowns for Ohio Northern (4-1 overall, 3-1 Ohio Athletic Conference).
Freshman Brock Martin (Attica/Seneca East) ran 12 times for 100 yards and two scores for ONU.
Saturday's Preview: The #16-ranked Ohio Northern volleyball program returns home to the ONU Sports Center this Saturday, September 29 as the Polar Bears welcome in the Marietta Pioneers for a weekend Ohio Athletic Conference showdown ... Match time is set for 1 p.m. ... The Polar Bears enter the match sporting an 11-3 overall record and a 1-0 mark in the OAC .
Junior goalkeeper Meagan Grierson has earned Ohio Athletic Conference Defensive Player of the Week honors.
Grierson anchored a Polar Bears' defense that recorded its fourth and fifth consecutive shutouts against Oberlin and Thomas More (Ky.), respectively, and a 2-0-0 weekly record during the voting period. The two victories pushed ONU's current win streak to five and moved the program to 5-2-0 on the season.
The five shutouts in 2018 give Grierson 25 clean sheets for her career, which ranks third all-time in school history.
LIMA BATH TWP. - The Ada cross country team competed at the 12-team Bath Invitational Wednesday evening.
"We did not run our best times of the season despite a flat course and the weather being cooler," said Bulldog head coach Josh Klein.
Senior Miguel Jordan paced Ada with a time of 18:54 over the 3.1-mile course.
Junior Michael Crouse was second for the Bulldogs in 20:24, followed closely by classmate Hunter Wells in 20:28. Sophomore Jacob Morgan finished in 21:06, with freshman Riley Ferguson coming in at 24:17.
Keegan Giddens ran a 24:49 and senior Brice Ferguson finished in 28:56.
PAULDING - The visiting Ada volleyball team lost a tough five-set marathon at Paulding Thursday night in a key Northwest Conference match.
After losing the 21-25, 25-21, 17-25, 26-24, 15-6 battle to the first-place Panthers, the Lady Bulldog spikers fall to 10-9 overall and 3-2 in the NWC.
It was their second league defeat in a row after Ada had won the previous 19 straight in league play over the past three seasons.
As the only unbeaten team left in NWC play, Paulding improved to 6-0 in the league and 9-6 overall with the hard-earned victory.
