ADA — The Ohio Northern volleyball team moved back into the national polls at No. 22 in the third weekly American Volleyball Coaches Association poll, released Tuesday afternoon.
The Polar Bears (9-3) received 268116 points in the poll, which is 152 more than the 116 they receivedlast week.
ONU was ranked No. 22 in the preseason poll and were No. 25 in the first weekly poll before falling out of the top 25 last week.
Northern went 3-1 last week, keyed by a 4-set victory over then-No. 12 Washington (Mo.) at the Wittenberg Fall Classic.
HINCKLEY — Junior Nick Anderson (Mason) shattered his career 18-and 36-hole career low scores to lead the Ohio Northern men's golf team at the OAC Fall Preview on Sunday and monday at Pine Hills Golf Club.
Anderson followed a first round 77 with his career-low round of 71 on Monday to finish tied for sixth out of 63 golfers on the par-72, 6748-yard course.
He set new career lows with his second round 71 and his 36-hole total of 148. He shaved two strokes off his previous 18-hole low of 73 and took four shots off his previous 36-hole low round of 152.
GAMBIER — Freshman Sabine Worthoff (West Chester/Mount Notre Dame) and senior Lynn Kelly (Mason) led the Ohio Northern women's tennis team at the Kenyon Invitational on Saturday and Sunday at Vandenburg Courts.
Worthoff went 2-1 and finished second in the No. 6 singles flight and Kelly went 2-1 and finished third in the No. 2 singles flight.
The tournament consists of eight singles flights and four doubles flights with eight competitors in each. Each player will play three times and place positions 1-8 in each of the flights.
Sophomore Katie Curry (Oxford/Talawanda) also went 2-1 and finished third in the seventh singles flight.
GALION - The Ada cross country teams competed at the warm Galion Invitational this past Saturday morning.
"To date this was our toughest, and largest race of the season," recalled Ada head coach Joshua Klein. "The Bulldog cross country team ran in the warmest weather they've experienced all season.
"The addition of this heat, added to the challenge of a hillier terrain, resulted in a grueling course that our runners overcame.
GAMBIER — Senior Lynn Kelly (Mason) and junior Ashley Ochsenhirt (Birmingham, Ala./Briarwood Christian) led the Ohio Northern women's tennis team on the first day of the Kenyon Invitational on Saturday at Vandenburg Courts.
Kelly went 1-1 in the No. 2 singles flight, winning her first match and dropping her second match in the 8-team bracket. She will compete for third place on Sunday.
Ochsenhirt went 1-1 at No. 1 singles and will play for fifth place on Sunday.
By Dusty Donley
The visiting Bulldogs jumped out to a 28-point first half lead in Delphos last Friday night and survived a furious second half comeback to pick up a huge conference victory against the Wildcats, 35-33.
DJ scored 26 unanswered points in the second half, but a Chase Sumner interception with under a minute to play sealed the Bulldog victory. With the win, Ada moves to 1-0 in the NWC and 3-1 overall. The conference loss is Jefferson’s first in almost three seasons.
