The Ohio Northern women's outdoor track and field team climbed to No. 9 in the second weekly United States Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association power rankings.
This marks the highest the Polar Bears (47-3 Overall) have ever been ranked during the outdoor season in school history.
ONU received 70.77 points in the rankings.
Washington (Mo.) held the top spot with 184.48 points, while Claremont-Mudd-Scripps (Cal.) came in second with 149.54 points and Williams (Mass.) rounded out the top-3 with 121.00 points.
Northern is coming off of a dominating performance at the Marv Frye Invitational where it took first place in the team standings.
The Ohio Northern men's lacrosse team ran its winning streak to eight games and stayed atop the Ohio Athletic Conference standings with a 17-3 victory over Heidelberg on Wednesday night at Dial-Roberson Stadium.
The Polar Bears are 9-3 overall and are in first place in the OAC with a perfect 4-0 record, while the Student Princes fall to 3-8, 0-3 in their first year as a varsity program.
Northern scored the first 13 goals of the game and held HU scoreless for more than 37 minutes.
Sophomore Luke Klinehoffer (Zanesville/John Glenn) and junior T.J. Storer (Loveland/Moeller) led the Ohio Northern baseball team as it won the first game of a twinbill at Wilmington 5-2, before falling 3-2 in the nightcap.
The Polar Bears move to 12-13 overall and 3-5 in the Ohio Athletic Conference, while the Quakers move to 6-19, 2-6.
Klinehoffer led ONU at the plate in the first contest as he went 3-for-6 and added an RBI and run scored.
Juniors Jason Burkett (Maumee) and Jordan Bostater (Bryan) each added two hits, while senior Kyle Schlade (Hamilton/Talawanda) added two RBI and a run scored
