The Ohio Northern baseball team opened its 2019 season with a 10-1 win over Illinois College on Sunday afternoon at Osceola Heritage Park Field 2 as part of the Russ Matt Tournament.
The Polar Bears (1-0) scored three runs in the third and four more in the fourth to take a 7-1 lead and cruised to the win.
The Blueboys fall to 0-1.
Sophomore Michael Rocco (Orlando, Fla./Zionsville) went 3-for-4 with a RBI and two runs scored to lead a 13-hit ONU offensive performance.
By Cort Reynolds
Three Ada players received All-Northwest Conference boys' basketball honors from league coaches in voting conducted at their annual selection meeting in Delphos Monday night.
Bulldog senior post Connor Frazier was named honorable mention all-conference for the second straight season. The 6-6 Frazier led the team in rebounds and blocked shots, and was second in total points.
Ada leading scorer Phillip Coulson, a junior wing, was also voted honorable mention all-league.
Bulldog senior guard Cade Mullins was the third Ada player to be named honorable mention All-NWC.
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.
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.
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.
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.
