The Ohio Northern football team finished the 2015 season ranked No. 19 in the final D3Football.com poll.
The Polar Bears (9-3 overall, 7-2 Ohio Athletic Conference) received 144 points in the voting after receiving 33 points in the 11th and final regular season poll.
Mount Union won the national title and was ranked first with 625 points and all 25 first place votes, national runner-up St. Thomas (Minn.) was second with 599 points and Linfield (Ore.) was third with 562 points.
The Polar Bears have now been mentioned in the D3football.com poll in 14 of the last 17 years.
Bluffton Family Recreation will hold a Columbus Crew SC winter camp for youth ages 6 to 18 on Monday, Feb. 15. The camp takes place at BFR, 215 Snider Road, Bluffton, from 2 to 5 p.m.
Joseph Beagle, BFR director, said, “Crew SC winter camps series focus on player development through a core foundation of soccer skills in a challenging and fun learning environment. Each camper is sure to walk away with a positive experience and high quality training from the only professional soccer club in the region.”
M. Basketball - Lost 67-79 at Denison; Lost 72-78 H v Trine (Ind.)
#23 W. Basketball - Won 72-51 H v Case Western Reserve; Won 80-43 at Ohio Wesleyan
Wrestling - at U. of Chicago (Ill.) Duals; Won 22-15 at U. of Chicago (Ill.); Lost 20-24 at Dubuque (Iowa); Won 27-11 v Trine (ind.)
#37 M. Swimming & Diving - Idle
W. Swimming & Diving - Idle
This Week's Schedule:
Wednesday
#23 Women's Basketball - at Mount Union, 7:30 pm
Ohio Northern senior Devon Price was named a member of the 2015 D3football.com All-America Team at the wide receiver position.
Price earned Second Team honors and earned his first All-America honor.
The senior is currently ONU's all-time career leader with 244 receptions and 3,201 yards. He also is top all-time at ONU with 76 kickoff returns for 1,868 yards and is second with 5,539 all-purpose yards.
He led the Ohio Athletic Conference this season with 89 receptions for 1,217 yards to go with six touchdowns.
Price helped guide the Polar Bears to a 9-3 record and an NCAA Tournament birth.
The recognition keeps coming for Ada High School grad and University of Dayton senior Christopher Beaschler.
This week, Beaschler, a senior linebacker on the Flyers football team, has been named a CoSIDA First Team Division Academic All-American.
Beaschler carries a 3.68 GPA in Mechanical Engineering. He is one of just two players who were named First Team All-PFL and First Team Academic All-PFL in both 2014 and 2015.
Ada HS grad Christopher Beaschler, University of Dayton senior linebacker, and Butler senior quarterback Matt Shiltz were named the Pioneer Football League Co-Scholar Athletes of the Year, Wednesday.
The two also were among 52 PFL student-athletes selected to the 23rd annual Academic All-PFL Teams, as selected by the league’s sports information directors.
It is the second year the PFL has recognized its top student-athletes, both on the field and in the classroom, with the Scholar-Athlete of the Year award. It also is the second year there were two honorees due to a tie in the voting.
