The Ohio Northern softball team is ranked No. 18 in the first 2013 National Fastpitch Coaches Association Division III poll released on Wednesday.
The Polar Bears received 8392 points in the poll, nine less than the 92 they received in the preseason poll, when they were ranked No. 15.
ONU has now been nationally ranked in five consecutive seasons and finished the year ranked No. 11 in 2012.
Montclair State (N.J.) is No. 1 with five first place votes and 197 points overall, Luther (Iowa) is second with 188 points and Tufts (Conn.) is third with 180 points.
The Ohio Northern men's swimming & diving team is ranked No. 25 in the fifth and final Endless Pools/CollegeSwimming.com Division III power rankings released on Wednesday.
The Polar Bears (11-2 overall, 5-0 Ohio Athletic Conference) have an 27.8 rating.
Points for the Endless Pools/CollegeSwimming.com Top 25 is calculated using the average percentile rank of each team's top twenty-seven in each meet.
The Top 25 teams are ranked according on the basis of each team's highest-scoring meet over a four-week period.
Kenyon is ranked No. 1, Denison is No. 2 and MIT is No. 3.
Senior Joanna Snyder was named Co-OAC Player of the Year and was one of three Ohio Northern women's basketball players selected as a First Team All-OAC honoree in voting done by the OAC coaches.
Snyder was named First Team All-OAC, as was senior Morgan Dumbaugh and junior Cenzie Yoder.
Senior Katie Mengos earned an Honorable Mention All-OAC selection.
In addition, head coach Michele Durand was named OAC Coach of the Year.
This is the third All-OAC honor for Snyder and first time she was named First Team.
She is second on the team in points averaging 13.4 ppg and is also second in rebounding at 6.0 rpg.
Ada High School sent a contingent of swimmers to the OHSAA state swim meet this past weekend in Canton and returned home with impressive finishes including one third place finish and one fourth place finish.
State qualifiers were Matthew Wilcox, Karl Karcher, Jon Robey and Mitchell Wilcox.
The Ada team qualifiers participated in Division II at Canton. The four state swimmers qualified through competition at the Sectional at the Lima YMCA and District at Bowling Green State University.
The Ada baseball program is interested in expanding by forming a junior high club team for seventh and eighth graders, according to Jason Campbell, Ada High School head baseball coach.
"Club baseball is played during the school year against area seventh and eighth grade teams. This does not replace the Ada Pony League summer baseball program,' said Campbell.
"We intentionally do not overlap the schedules of these programs, so they can work together to provide the players the opportunity to play more games," he said.
A parent meeting is planned at 8 p.m., Thursday, Feb. 28, in the small gym, next to the varsity basketball gym, in the school administration building.
The Ohio Northern women's basketball team moved up to No. 3 in the D3hoops.com poll and remained No. 3 in the USA Today Sports Division III Top 25 Coaches poll.
The Polar Bears received 555 points in the D3hoops.com poll, which was 18 more than they received in last weeks poll.
DePauw (Ind.) stayed at the top of the poll with 621 points and 22 of the 25 first place votes and Hope (Mich) is ranked second with 595 points and the three remaining first place votes.
