Ohio Northern will be the No. 4 seed in the 2018 OAC Baseball Tournament May 10-12 at Otterbein.
The Polar Bears will play top-seeded host Otterbein in the first game on Thursday with second-seeded Marietta and third-seeded Baldwin Wallace meeting in the second opening round contest in the double-elimination tournament.
Game times will be announced soon.
Thursday's winners will face off in Game 2 on Friday with Thursday's losers following in an elimination game on Friday.
ADA - The Ada boys team finished a strong third out of 16 teams at the 57th annual Ada Invitational track meet on a sunny Saturday at War Memorial Stadium.
Van Wert swept both the boys and girls team titles. VW won the boys event with 95.5 points, followed by Spencerville (68) and Ada (66).
Ada junior Noah Mattson finished second in the shot put and third in the discus to pace the Bulldog boys. Ada sophomore Michael Crouse also took second in the 400 meters.
MASON — Ohio Northern saw its season come to an end with a 5-1 losss to John Carroll in the finals of the 2018 Ohio Athletic Conference Women's Tennis Tournament on Saturday at the Lindner Tennis Center.
The second-seeded Polar Bears end their season with a 19-7 record, while the top-seeded Blue Streaks improve to 18-6 overall and receive the league's automatic bid to the NCAA III Championships.
Junior Ashley Ochsenhirt (Birmingham, Ala./Briarwood Christian) and sophomore Katie Curry (Oxford/Talawanda) rallied from a 4-0 deficit to win 9-7 at No. 3 doubles to lead ONU.
Akron -- ONU junior Maddy Reed (Piketon) and sophomore Maggie Krause (Chagrin Falls/Kenston) posted a pair of top-5 vaults nationally as they competed at the Campbell/Wright Invitational on Saturday afternoon in Akron.
Team scores were not kept at the meet.
Reed's mark of 13' 1.75" moves into third place nationally in the event. She finished first among Div. III athletes in the event.
WESTERVILLE — For the first time since the 2009 season, the Ohio Northern softball team has been crowned the Ohio Athletic Conference Tournament Champions after defeating host and No. 1 seed Otterbein 3-2 on Saturday afternoon in the title game at the Otterbein Softball Field.
The Polar Bears (30-9 overall) become the first team since current head coach Jackie (Mangola) Price made the NCAA Tournament as a player and current assistant coach Tina (Mangola) Martinez made the NCAA Tournament as an assistant coach for ONU in 2012, to punch their ticket to the NCAA Tournament.
The Ohio Northern baseball team ended its regular season after falling 8-6, 11-3 against Wilmington on Senior Day at Wander Field on Saturday afternoon.
The Polar Bears (27-13 overall, 11-7 Ohio Athletic Conference) are currently in a 2-way tie with Heidelberg for the No. 3 seed in the OAC standings.
Northern recognized its seven seniors in a post game ceremony as Kyle Schlade (Hamilton/Talawanda), Dan Barna (Cranberry Township, Pa./Seneca Valley), Jordan Bostater (Bryan), Jason Burkett (Maumee), Brandon Kasberg (Mentor), Hayden Shenefield (Powell/Worthington Kilbourne) and T.J. Storer (Loveland/Moeller) were all honored.
