Saturday's Contest: Saturday's contest is ONU's first road game of the 2018 season and is Homecoming at OU. ONU is 534-492-36 in 124 seasons of play, a winning percentage of .518. ONU is riding a solid 5-game winning streak, which includes the final two games of 2017.
ONU Head Coach Dean Paul: Paul is in his 15th season at ONU with a 99-48 record. Paul is ONU's all-time winningest coach in ONU football history. He is 139-60 in 18 seasons overall and is 11-3 against OU.
OU head coach Tim Doup: Doup is in his 7th season at OU with a 34-28 record. He is 1-5 against ONU.
ADA - The Ada volleyball team lost a four-set match to visiting ex-league rival Lima Central Catholic Thursday night in a very hot gym.
The Lady Bulldog spikers fell to 8-5 with the 25-13, 25-20, 18-25, 25-15 defeat that snapped their four-match win streak. LCC improved to 9-5 after the hard-fought win.
"We were slow starting off in the first set, not moving our feet well," said Ada head coach Kyleigh Tabor. "After that our defense picked up and serve receive was solid. I was happy with our defense.
DEFIANCE - League regular season champion Spencerville won the Northwest Conference golf tournament title Thursday at the Auglaize Golf Club in Defiance.
Spencerville posted three of the top five individual scores to win the event with 315 strokes, followed by Paulding (343) and Lincolnview (344).
Ada and Crestview each totaled 409 strokes to tie for eighth. But the Knights won a fifth-man tiebreaker 112-132 to officially finish eighth, while the Bulldogs ended up ninth.
Bulldog junior Ethan Hull posted the best 18-hole Ada score at 43-48=91. Hull earned honorable mention all-league notice.
VAN BUREN - The Ada girls soccer team lost a road match to Van Buren Wednesday evening, 6-0.
The Lady Bulldogs fell to 3-6 with the defeat.
VB scored two quick goals late in the first half to take a 2-0 lead to intermission. The Black Knights then added four goals in half two, some in the final minutes, to win going away.
"We faced a very tough Van Buren team, but we played them very even for the first 35 minutes of the match," said Ada head coach Doug Poling.
"They put us more on the defensive in the second half," he continued. "We were able to keep them from getting a lot of shots off, but they managed to score."
GAMBIER — The Ohio Northern volleyball team, ranked 15 nationally, used a balanced offensive attack to sweep Kenyon 25-18, 25-16, 25-20 on Wednesday night at Tomisch Arena.
The Polar Bears improve to 10-3 on the season, while the Ladies fall to 9-3.
Junior Chelsea Huppert (Bremen, Ind.) had a team-high 12 kills, while junior Sydney Bapst(Grove City) and freshman Madi Ellis (Delphos/St. John's) had nine kills each to lead ONU.
