Ada first grade teacher, Melissa Gossard, who was honored by her alma mater, Hardin Northern High School over the weekend. She is a member of HN's basketball 1,000 point club. (From Ada Bulldogs Facebook)
Ada junior Chase Sumner (138) was named Wrestler of The Year in the NWC in a vote by the coaches. The conference meet took place at Spencerville over the weekend.
Mike Abbey of Allen East was voted by his peers as NWC Coach of The Year.
Repeat winners from last year included Chase Sumner (Ada-138), Andrew Foust (DJ-120), Luke Brown (AE-145), Cole Wilson (BL-152) and Deandre Nasser (BL-195).
Allen East and Bluffton led the way with 4 individual champions while Delphos Jefferson had 3 individual champions in the tournament.
The No. 6-ranked Ohio Northern women's basketball team clinched at least a share of the Ohio Athletic Conference Regular Season title with an 86-78 victory at Muskingum on Saturday at the Steele Center.
The Polar Bears stay undefeated on the season at 21-0 overall and improve to 14-0 in the OAC.
Northern also clinched the No. 1 seed (and the double-bye that comes with it) in the OAC Tournament. ONU has a 4-game lead over Wilmington (10-4) and Baldwin Wallace (10-4) with four games left in the regular season and holds the tiebreaker over both schools.
The Ohio Northern men's track and field team took second place Saturday afternoon as it competed in the annual Joe Banks Invitational at the ONU Sports Center Fieldhouse.
Junior Matt Molinaro (Sterling Heights, Mich./DeLaSalle) posted a new meet record in the 800-meter run, finishing in 1:54.39 to lead Northern.
In the weight throw, senior Lucas Shumate(Wapakoneta/Spencerville) took first place with a toss of 57' 6.25".
Senior Devon Allen (Lima/Senior) scored four of his game-high 24 points in the final 28 seconds to lead the Ohio Northern men's basketball team to a 101-96 victory over Muskingum Saturday afternoon at the ONU Sports Center.
The Polar Bears (14-7 overall, 12-2 Ohio Athletic Conference) run their winning streak to nine games and remain in a first place tie in the league standings with No. 13-ranked Marietta.
ONU also clinches its first winning season since 2013-14 under first-year head coach Rich Bensman.
