Junior Ryan Bruns (Chickasaw/Marion Local) used a 30-point effort, while senior Nate Burger (Dayton/Alter) flirted with a triple-double to lead the Ohio Northern men's basketball team to an 86-82 victory over visiting Mount Union on Saturday afternoon at the ONU Sports Center.
The Polar Bears improve to 5-2 overall and stand atop the Ohio Athletic Conference standings as the only remaining undefeated team at 3-0 in conference play, while the Purple Raiders drop to 6-2, 2-1.
Senior Hannah Reich (Howell, Mich.) added to her impressive resume during the 2017 season as she was named a First Team Scholar All-North/Central Region honoree by the United Soccer Coaches.
The senior was one of only two athletes from the Ohio Athletic Conference to be named a Scholar All-Region honoree and the only member of the OAC to be named first team.
She was also named an Academic All-OAC awardee in 2017.
By Grant Pepper
On this week’s episode of the Polar Bear Hoop Talk podcast, hosted by myself and fellow senior ONU men’s basketball player Brandon Hawkins, we talked about our time at the Mount St. Joseph’s Tip-Off Classic over Thanksgiving Break, as well as our loss to Alma and win over Capital last week.
We went 1-1 at Mount St. Joseph’s (located just outside of Cincinnati), losing to ninth-ranked Washington University-St. Louis on the first night and beating Case Western Reserve University on the second night. In this podcast, we broke down each game and also ranked our favorite team meals from the weekend-long trip.
By Cort Reynolds
ADA - Visiting Bluffton authored two big first half runs to build a comfortable lead and never looked back in posting a 61-26 win over Ada in the Northwest Conference girls basketball opener Thursday evening.
The purple and gold fell to 1-2 overall and 0-1 in the NWC with the defeat, while the Lady Pirates improved to 4-1 and 1-0 in league play after the win.
Ada crept within 18-12 late in the first period after a 12-footer by freshman Miranda Wills. Next, Pirate post Libby Schoodt sank a putback with a second left in the opening stanza.
The Ohio Northern women's soccer team was ranked No. 8 in the final United Soccer Coaches Poll. Northern (20-2-2 overall) jumped from No. 14 to No. 8 after making a run to the Elite 8 round of the 2017 NCAA Div. III Women's Soccer Tournament.
