ALLIANCE — The Ohio Northern football team dropped a 43-14 decision at No. 2-ranked Mount Union on Saturday afternoon at Mount Union Stadium.
The Polar Bears fall to 2-2 overall and are 1-2 in the Ohio Athletic Conference, while the Purple Raiders improve to 4-0, 3-0.
Trailing 3-0 late in the first quarter, Northern drove deep into Mount Union territory. But an 89-yard pick-6 turned the momentum of the game and gave the hosts a 10-0 lead with 49 seconds left in the first period.
Mount then drove 81 and 69 yards for touchdowns on its next two possessions and took advantage of a fumble deep inside ONU territory to take a 27-0 lead at halftime.
ADA - The Ada girls soccer team lost a 6-1 contest to visiting Coldwater Saturday morning.
Ada fell to 2-9 overall with the non-league defeat.
Alivia Okuly scored the Lady Bulldog goal on an assist from Gizrem Tanriverdi.
Ada senior keeper Anney Archer made a career-best 29 saves in goal. The Cavaliers out-shot the Bulldogs, 35-15.
"We played a lot of defense," said Ada head coach Doug Poling. "We had a hard time stopping their speed up front, which they fed constant through balls to."
LIMA BATH - The Ada cross country teams competed in another warm meet at the Bath Invitational Tuesday evening.
"It is meets like this that remind me that cross country is probably the friendliest sport around," said coach Josh Klein. "Our times were a direct result of the heat. It is a really cool experience to see fellow coaches, crowd members, and other athletes rally around one another when someone was struggling, or simply walking because they were overheated."
GRANVILLE — The No. 19-ranked Ohio Northern volleyball team won its sixth straight match as it swept Denison on Tuesday evening at Livingston Gymnasium in Granville.
The Polar Bears improve to 15-3 overall with the victory, while the Big Red fall to 7-5.
Northern was led offensively by sophomore Sydney Bapst's (Grove City) 10 kills.
Sophomore Chelsea Huppert (Bremen, Ind.) added nine kills, while senior Haley Potters (Wheelersburg/South Webster) and freshman Paige Hartings (Coldwater) chipped in eight kills each.
