TIFFIN — For the first time in school history, the Ohio Northern men's cross country team claimed its third consecutive Ohio Athletic Conference Championship as junior Ian McVey (Stow/Munroe Falls) claimed the OAC Individual title and senior Matt Molinaro(Sterling Heights, Mich./De La Salle) finished as the runner up to lead the Polar Bears.
The Polar Bears (80-17 overall) won the team title with 33 team points, while Mount Union was second with 61 points and John Carroll rounded out the top-3 with 64 points.
TIFFIN — Senior Emily Richards (Delware/Hayes) and junior Ashlie Baumann (Sterling Heights, Mich./Stevenson) each earned First Team All-OAC honors to lead the Ohio Northern women's cross country team to a fourth place finish at the OAC Championships on Saturday afternoon at the Clinton Heights Golf Course.
The Polar Bears move to 67-29 on the year.
Richards earned runners up honors after she finished second of 120 runners in 22:04.4, while Baumann finished sixth overall in 22:42.9.
MARIETTA — The No. 20-ranked Ohio Northern volleyball claimed at least a share of the Ohio Athletic Conference regular season title on Friday evening as it defeated Marietta 3-0 at Ban Johnson Arena.
The Polar Bears improve to 25-4 overall and 8-1 in the Ohio Athletic Conference, while the Pioneers fall to 11-17, 3-6.
Northern owns at least a share of the Ohio Athletic Conference and one of the top two seeds in next weeks OAC Tournament.
ONU can claim the No. 1 seed throughout the OAC Tournament with an Otterbein loss to Mount Union on Saturday afternoon
The No. 14-ranked Ohio Northern women's soccer team concluded regular season play on Friday afternoon as it defeated Ohio Athletic Conference-foe Marietta 5-0 at Marietta Field.
The Polar Bears improve to 16-1-1 overall and finish with a perfect 9-0-0 record in the Ohio Athletic Conference, while the Pioneers drop to 6-10-2, 2-7-0.
Note: Ada Icon welcomes ONU student Grant Pepper as a columnist. To read more about Grant, click here. Here is his first article.
By Grant Pepper
Hello Icon readers,
My name is Grant Pepper and I am a senior multimedia journalism major at Ohio Northern University. I am looking forward to writing for The Ada Icon this year, as I have a great passion for covering not only Ohio Northern, but also the Ada community as a whole.
With Ada’s 42-17 win over Bluffton on Friday, the Bulldogs stayed in contention for the playoffs. They rose to seventh in the unofficial Division 6 Region 22 rankings (the top eight make it in), and now have a 72 percent chance of making the playoffs, according to high school football analyst Drew Pasteur’s acclaimed Ohio Fantastic 50 projections.
Ada will need to win on Friday against Allen East in their regular season finale, however, and they will also need some help. Here is who Bulldog fans should be rooting for on Friday night to help their team make it into the playoffs:
