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By Tim Glon

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.

By Cort Reynolds

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.

By Tim Glon

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.

Jefferson's 17-game NWC win streak over

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.

ONU's Will Freed threw for 289 yards and 3 touchdowns to Chad Rex

By Tim Glon
Junior Will Freed (Carlsbad, Calif./San Marcos) threw for 289 yards and three touchdowns to junior Chad Rex (Bradenton, Fla./Lakewood Ranch) to lead the Ohio Northern football team in a 40-21 loss to Heidelberg on Saturday afternoon at Dial-Roberson Stadium.

The Polar Bears fall to 1-1 overall and are 0-1 in the Ohio Athletic Conference, while the Student Princes improve to 2-0, 1-0.

Freed hit Rex on TD passes of 2, 55 and 3 yards, but the Heidelberg offense picked up 655 yards of total offense to spoil Northern's home-opener.

Rex finished the day with six receptions for a career-high 144 yards.

By Caleb Scott

SPRINGFIELD — The Ohio Northern volleyball team swept Clarkson (N.Y.) on the final day of the Wittenberg Fall Classic before falling 3-1 to No. 3-ranked Wittenberg on Saturday afternoon in Springfield.

The Polar Bears improve to 9-3 overall with the victory, while the Golden Knights fall to 5-5, and the Tigers move to 9-0.

Senior Haley Potters (Wheelersburg/South Webster), and sophomores Chelsea Huppert (Bremen, Ind.) and McKenna Jordan (Toledo/St. Ursula) each recorded 11 kills in the game one victory.

Huppert and Potters hit a blistering .474 and .448, respectively in the win.

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