With six regular season OAC games left on the schedule, the Ohio Northern men’s basketball team is right in the thick of things in the conference title race.
Northern is one of four teams that now have a realistic shot at the conference trophy -- and all are within one game of each other at the top of the OAC standings. John Carroll and Marietta are both 9-3 in the OAC, while Ohio Northern and Baldwin Wallace are both 8-4. Each team has six regular season OAC games left.
ADA - Visiting Upper Scioto Valley used two big first-half runs to build an intermission cushion, and made it stand up in a 68-52 win over local arch-rival Ada in girls basketball action Tuesday night.
The Lady Bulldogs fell to 4-13 overall with the non-conference defeat, while the Lady Rams improved to 4-11 with the hard-fought win.
USV senior guard Kaycee Carroll poured in a game-high 26 points and classmate Haley Hunsicker contributed 16 markers to lead the hot-shooting Rams. USV knocked down eight three-point goals, all in the first 18 minutes.
The Ohio Northern wrestling team swept all 10 weight classes to post an impressive 48-0 victory over Otterbein on Tuesday night at the ONU Sports Center.
The Polar Bears improve to 8-9 overall and get back to even in the Ohio Athletic Conference with a 2-2 record.
The Cardinals fall to 6-5, 1-4.
Sophomore Aidan Pierobon (Rochester Hills, Mich./Stoney Creek), junior Clayton Davidson (Kirtland) and sophomore Nate Barcaskey (Moon Township, Pa./Moon Area) each registered falls to lead Ohio Northern.
The Ohio Northern women's basketball team fell five spots to No. 15 in the ninth weekly edition of the D3Hoops.com poll.
Northern (17-2 overall, 11-1 OAC) posted a 1-1 record in the conference last week after defeating Wilmington at the ONU Sports Center 71-48 and falling on the road at Capital 84-76.
Sophomore Nolan Huey (Fort Collins, Colo./Fossil Ridge) earned his third career OAC Men's Swimmer of the Week honor for his efforts during the week of Jan. 23-29.
The sophomore earned the honor for the second time this season after leading Northern during the week in the pool.
In ONU's tri-meet at No. 3-ranked Kenyon with Ohio Wesleyan and the Lords, Huey was third in the 200 free in 1:45.76 and the 100 back in :53.50.
