ADA - Visiting Spencerville used balanced scoring and a big first half to defeat Ada 68-39 in Northwest Conference girls basketball play Thursday night.
The Lady Bulldogs fell to 4-14 overall and 0-6 in conference play with a fifth straight defeat in their home finale. Meanwhile, the Lady Bearcats improved to 10-7 and remain tied for first in the NWC with the win at 5-1.
After a slow start for both teams, Spencerville rolled to an 18-4 lead en route to a 33-10 halftime bulge, and never was headed.
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.
