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No. 21-ranked Ohio Northern held off a spirited Heidelberg squad 25-19, 25-20, 18-25, 25-21 in an Ohio Athletic Conference volleyball match Tuesday night in Tiffin.

The Polar Bears improve to 18-4 overall and 3-1 in the OAC, while the Student Princes fall to 10-11, 2-2.

Sophomores McKenna Jordan (Toledo/Saint Ursula), Sydney Bapst (Grove City) and Chelsea Huppert (Bremen, Ind.) senior Haley Potters (Wheelersburg/South Webster) led ONU with 17, 16, 12 and 11 kills, respectively.

Freshman Katie Wade (Battle Creek, Mich./Harper Creek) dished out 55 assists and sophomore Kristin Langston (Versailles) had a team-best 23 digs for Ohio Northern.

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Photos by Vickie Garmon - Here's photos of Ada boys' soccer win over Paulding. The final score was 6-0.

Photos:
(top) Chris Reyes
Blaine Dearth
Jonathan Rettig
Noah Pinkney

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The Ohio Northern volleyball team fell four spots to No. 21 in the sixth weekly American Volleyball Coaches Association poll.

The Polar Bears is 17-4 overall and 2-1 in the Ohio Athletic Conference.

Ohio Northern went 1-1 last week with a sweep at Capital and a hard-fought 3-2 loss to Otterbein.

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The Ohio Northern women's soccer team jumped two spots to No. 15 in the United Soccer Coaches poll, and moved into the top-25 at No. 19 in the D3Soccer.com poll, both released Tuesday, Oct. 10.

Northern (10-1-1 overall) jumped two spots in the United Soccer Coaches poll after posting a 2-0-0 record last week.

In the D3Soccer.com poll, jumped to No. 19 after receiving votes the last two weeks.

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By Cort Reynolds

KENTON — Ada sophomore Abbie James took second to pace the Lady Bulldog cross country team at the Hardin County Invitational meet Monday in Kenton.

James finished the 3.1-mile course at the Hardin County Fairgrounds in a time of 21:31.15, behind only meet winner Julie Collier of Riverdale.

The Lady Falcons won the girls meet with 42 points, followed closely by Kenton (44), Hardin Northern (58) and Ada (72).

Kenton won the boys team title over Hardin Northern, 44-53. The Ada boys took third with 56 points, followed by USV (65).

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By Cort Reynolds

FINDLAY - The Ada girls soccer team was seeded 12th at the 13-team drawing for the Div. III Findlay district held Sunday.

 

Ada (5-9) will play at sixth-seeded Ashland Crestview Saturday, October 14 at 5 p.m.

 

The victor will visit second-seeded Liberty-Benton Oct. 18 at 5 p.m.

 

Riverdale was seeded first overall in the district draw.

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