There's a new sport in Ada and the first game will be played next Saturday.
The Ohio Northern men's and women's lacrosse teams will open their inaugural seasons with a double header on Saturday, Feb. 27, at Dial-Roberson Stadium.
The Polar Bear men, under the guidance of Nat St. Laurent, will play the first-ever game in program history at 1 p.m. against Franciscan.
The Polar Bear women will follow with their first-ever contest at 4 p.m. against Olivet (Mich.) under head coach Beth Hemminger.
Zac Dysert (left) and Tom Simmons talk Florida at the ONU men's basketball game on Wednesday. Zac is now a Marlin, Tom worked in Florida prior to becoming Ohio Northern athletic director. (Monty Siekerman photo)
By Ashley Birchmeier The Ohio Northern women's basketball team jumped three spots to No. 11 in the ninth weekly D3hoops.com Women's Top 25 Poll.
This ties the Polar Bears highest ranking this season as they received 364 points in the poll.
Thomas More (Ky.) reclaimed the top spot with 625 points and all 25 first place votes, followed by George Fox (Ore.) in second with 596 points and Hope (Mich.) in third with 578 points.
Ohio Athletic Conference foe Capital moved up four spots to No. 20 with 103 points.
Ohio Northern Junior Allison Gastwas named the Ohio Athletic Conference Women's Indoor Track Athlete of the Week for the week of February 8-14.
Gast set a new school record in the 200-meter dash this past weekend at the Joe Banks Invitational with a time of :26.81, claiming a second place finish.
The junior broke the previous record of :26.90 set by Amy Wood on February 17, 1996.
She also won the 60-meter hurdles with a time of :09.21 and finished third in the 60-meter dash with a time of :07:98.
Ada High School wrestlers finished sixth in the Northwest Conference wrestling championship held this past weekend at Paulding. The Bulldogs had two individual champions. Both are underclassmen. One Ada champ was one of only three repeat champs from last year.
Allen East senior Brandon Soules (152) was named Wrestler of The Year in the NWC in a vote by the coaches. Mike Wilson of Jefferson was voted by his peers as NWC Coach of The Year.
Complete results can be found at www.baumspage.com under the Northwest Conference tournament tab.
