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PRE-SALE TICKETS: There are pre-sale tickets available in the Ada High School office for Friday’s varsity football game with Waynesfield-Goshen at Lima Stadium.

The game starts at 8 p.. All tickets are $7. All tickets at the game will be $9. Ada is the home team and will sit in the home bleachers. The gates will open at 7 p.m.

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By Andrew Korba

The Ohio Northern women's basketball team received votes in the D3hoops.com Preseason poll.

Ohio Northern received 36 votes in voting conducted by a panel of 25 coaches, Sports Information Directors and media members from across the country.

Calvin (Mich.) was ranked No. 1 with 592 points, followed by Geroge Fox (Ore.) with 560 points and St. Thomas (Minn.) with 536 points.

Fellow OAC foe and defending OAC Tournament Mount Union was ranked No. 6 with 395 points.

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By Tim Glon

High winds, heavy rains and snow from Hurricane Sandy have forced several changes in the Ohio Athletic Conference Volleyball and Men's Soccer Tournament schedules this week.

The No. 3-seeded Ohio Northern volleyball team's quarterfinal match with Baldwin Wallace, scheduled for Tuesday night at 7 pm, has been postponed until Wednesday at 7 pm at the ONU Sports Center.

The semifinals and finals remain scheduled for Friday and Saturday, as previously planned.

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By Tim Glon

The Ohio Northern wrestling team is ranked No. 10 in the Brute-National Wrestling Coaches Association Division III Preseason poll for the 2012-13 season.

The Polar Bears, under 25th-year head coach Ron Beaschler, are the only Ohio Athletic Conference team in the poll, which ranks the top 30 teams in the country.

Individually, three ONU wrestlers are ranked in the top 10 of their respective weight classes.

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By Tim Glon

Ohio Northern sophomore Kristina Klusek was named the Ohio Athletic Conference Women's Soccer Player of the Week for the week of Oct. 22-28.

Klusek scored five goals and added an assist as ONU (10-4-4 overall, 5-3-1 OAC) defeated Wilmington 2-1 and Muskingum 4-1 last week.

She had both goals, including the match-winner with 1:37 left to play, to lead ONU a win at Wilmington on Tuesday.

She then had a hat trick in the first half and added a second half assist as the Polar Bears won 4-1 at Muskingum on Saturday.

This season, Klusek leads ONU in scoring with 33 points on 13 goals and seven assists.

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By Tim Glon

Ohio Northern junior Kevin Weslosky was named the Ohio Athletic Conference Football Special Teams Player of the Week for his effort's in ONU's 20-19 victory over Muskingum on Saturday.

Weslosky averaged 36.0 yards on four punts with a long of 61 yards for ONU (3-5 overall, 3-4 OAC).

This marks the third consecutive week that an Ohio Northern athlete has won OAC Football Player of the Week honors, as senior Tate Humphrey was the Offensive POW on Oct. 22 and freshman Devon Price was the Special Teams POW on Oct. 15.

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