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Senior Tara Tokar has been named to the NSCAA/Continental Tire NCAA Division III Women's All-American Third Team, in voting conducted by the National Soccer Coaches Association of America.

This is the second straight season that Tokar has been named to the Third Team.

This season, she scored three goals and recorded two assists as a midfielder. Tokar ends her career as a Polar Bear with 12 goals and six assists.

Ohio Northern finished the season with a 13-5-5 record and won the program's first OAC Tournament Championship.

The Polar Bears also advanced to the second round of the NCAA III Tournament for the second consecutive season.

The Ohio Northern men's swimming & diving team is ranked No. 17 in the latest Endless Pools/CollegeSwimming.com Division III power rankings released on Wednesday.

The Polar Bears (4-0 overall, 2-0 Ohio Athletic Conference) have an 81.74 rating.

Points for the Endless Pools / CollegeSwimming.com Top 25 are calculated using the average percentile rank of each team's top twenty-seven in each meet.

The Top 25 are ranked according on the basis of each team's highest-scoring meet over a four-week period.

Emory (Ga.) is ranked No. 1, Kenyon is No. 2 and Denison is No. 3.

The Ohio Northern men's soccer team is ranked No. 2 in the final 2012 Continental Tire/NSCAA and is No. 3 in the last D3soccer.com Men's Top 25 poll on Wednesday.

In the NSCAA poll, the Polar Bears were ranked No. 10 in the final regular season poll, No. 12 in the eighth poll, No. 14 in the seventh poll, No. 21 in the sixth poll, No. 25 in the fifth poll, No. 18 in forth poll, No. 9 in the third poll, No. 12 in the second poll, No. 4 in the first weekly poll and were ranked No. 12 in the 2012 preseason poll and were No. 11 in the final 2011 NSCAA poll.

National Champion Messiah (Pa.) claimed the top spot, followed by ONU, Loras (Ia.), Williams (Mass.) and Amherst (Mass.)

The Ohio Northern women's soccer team received votes in the final D3soccer.com poll, in voting done by a panel of coaches, Sports Information Directors and media members across the country.

The Polar Bears received 26 points.

National Champion Messiah (Pa.) was ranked No. 1 with 625 points, Emory (Ga.) was voted No. 2 with 600 points and Wheaton (Ill.) rounded out the top three with 575 points.
Northern was ranked No. 21 in the fourth and fifth polls.

The Polar Bears concluded their season with a 13-5-5 mark under ninth year head coach Mark Batman.

No. 13-ranked Ohio Northern got an early pin, then won the last four bouts to post a 27-15 dual meet wrestling match at Mount Saint Joseph on Tuesday night.

The Polar Bears improve to 4-1 on the season, while the Lions fall to 0-2.

Junior Jerry Pasquale got ONU off to a quick 6-0 lead with a pin in 2:16 at 125 pounds. 

Junior Ryan Fowler then tied the match at 9-9 with a 7-4 decision at 149 pounds.

After two more MSJ decisions, freshman Colt Lovejoy won by forfeit at 174 pounds to tie the match at 15-all.

The Ohio Northern women's basketball team is ranked No. 20 in the second weekly  D3hoops.com Women's Division III poll and is receiving votes in the USA Today poll on Tuesday.

Ohio Northern received 125 votes in the second weekly D3hoops.com poll, 45 more than the 80 votes it received in last week's poll.

Voting is conducted by a panel of 25 coaches, Sports Information Directors and media members from across the country.

DePauw (Ind.) is ranked No. 1 with 623 points, followed by Mount Union with 586 points and Calvin (Mich.) with 545 points.

In USA today Division III coaches poll, Ohio Northern recieved eight votes.

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