Senior Samantha Hoffman led the Ohio Northern women's cross country team to a 10th place finish at the 24-team Calvin (Mich.) Knight Invitational Saturday morning at the Calvin Cross Country Course.
The Polar Bears (22-13 overall) finished with 281 points.
No. 7-ranked Calvin (Mich.) won the team title with 27 points, No. 9 (NAIA) St. Francis (Ill.), No. 22 (NAIA) Aquinas (Mich.) was third with 124 points, No. 34 Case Western Reserve was fourth with 135 points and No. 11 (NAIA) Cornerstone (Ind.) was fifth with 170 points.
Hoffman finished 23rd out of 292 runners in 19:11 over the 5,000-meter course.
The Ohio Northern men's cross country team posted an impressive fourth place finish at the Calvin (Mich.) Knight Invitational Saturday morning at the Calvin Cross Country Course.
The Polar Bears (26-3 overall) were fourth out of 20 teams with 118 points.
No. 23 Calvin (Mich.) won the team title with 55 points. No. 5 (NAIA) St. Francis (Ill.) was second with 80 points and No. 4 (NAIA) Aquinas (Mich.) was third with 110 points.
Northern defeated No. 22 (NAIA) Indiana Tech, who finished sixth with 224 points.
Senior Nathan Rosenbaum finished ninth out of 291 runners in 25:51 over the 8,000-meter course.
Football - Won 31-24 at Washington (Mo.).
Volleyball - at Illinois Wesleyan Classic; Lost 1-3 v #21 Coe (Iowa); Lost 1-3 at Illinois Wesleyan; Won 3-0 v Benedictine (Ill.); Won 3-0 v Blackburn (Ill.)
#14 Men's Soccer - at Berrg (Ga.) Invitational, Sat.-Sun.; Lost 0-3 v #24 Emory (Ga.); Won 5-0 at Berry (Ga.)
Women's Soccer - Lost 1-2 at Xavier
Men's Cross Country - 1st of 7 at Taylor (Ind.) Invitational
Women's Cross Country - 4th of 9 at Taylor (Ind.) Invitational
Men's Golf - 6th of 6 at Tiffin Invitational
Women's Golf - 9th of 16 at Denison Invitational
A dominating 29 second half points on a weather delayed Saturday night sealed the victory for Spencerville, as the Bearcats defeated the visiting Ada Bulldogs 42-0.
The loss drops the defending NWC champion Bulldogs to 0-1 in the conference and 1-1 overall.
Lightning postponed the game just after halftime on Friday night with Spencerville leading the Bulldogs 13-0. The game resumed Saturday at 6 p.m. and the Bearcats continued their offensive onslaught, scoring 14 points in the third and 15 points in the fourth en route to their second shut-out in consecutive weeks.
Five Icon football contest contestants correctly picked 8 games this week and Travis Swank was declared the winner based on being closest in the 2nd tie-breaker, according to Corey Greer, contest judge.
All 5 contestants picked Bluffton to win and all 5 contestants picked Ada to lose. Travis picked Ada to lose by 17-24 points. All others picked the score to be closer.
Other contestants:
8 correct - Marc Staley, Nathan Davis, Ted Prueter and Ken Von Lehmden.
The Ohio Northern men were picked to finish third and the women fourth in the 2014 Ohio Athletic Conference Cross Country Coaches Polls.
The Polar Bear men received 67 points and one first place vote.
Mount Union was selected as the league favorite with 81 points and nine first place votes. John Carroll was secone with 68 points and Otterbein was picked fourth with 54 points.
