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Men's soccer team recipient of Team Academic Award

13th consecutive year for this ONU honor
Posted by Fred Steiner on Thursday, October 1, 2020

By Tim Glon
ADA — The Ohio Northern men's soccer program received the Team Academic Award from the United Soccer Coaches for 2019-20.

This marks the 13th consecutive year that the Polar Bears were honored with the award by having a team GPA of 3.0 or higher.

Northern's 13 awards ties it with Baldwin Wallace for the most among Ohio Athletic Conference schools.

The Polar Bears finished 13-6-3 overall, 5-3-1 in the OAC and advanced to the NCAA III Tournament in 2019 under first-year head coach Chris Matejka.

OAC Schools that have received the award:

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This polar bear spent his summer as a Oregon duck

A summer as strength and conditioning intern for the University of Oregon football team
Posted by Fred Steiner on Wednesday, September 30, 2020

FROM ONU WEBSITE - Ever since exercise physiology major Wil Rankin fell in love with football as a player, he knew he never wanted to leave football behind.

That’s why he decided to pursue a career in strength and conditioning. His ultimate goal? To become a strength and conditioning coach for a Division I college football team.

Thanks to his networking expertise and determined efforts, he was able to try his dream on for size the summer before his senior year as a strength and conditioning intern for the University of Oregon football team.

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Bulldogs CC runs at Bath

Riley Ferguson paces Ada at 21:27; personal best for Melia Santillanez and Cole Anspaugh; season best for Connor Daugherty
Posted by Fred Steiner on Wednesday, September 30, 2020

By Cort Reynolds
LIMA - The Ada cross country teams competed at the Bath Invitational Tuesday.

"We had a great night," said Bulldog head coach Josh Klein. "Both girls ran under 30 minutes again."

Bulldog freshman Melia Santillanez ran a personal-best time of 29:24 to finish 57th out of 63 female runners in the meet. Classmate Elsie Allen came home at 29:39, good for 58th place. 

Junior Riley Ferguson paced the Bulldog boys with a time of 21:27 to cross the finish line 58th out of 115 runners.

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Bulldog spikers fall to LCC

Light 9 kills; Wills 7 digs, 10 assists; Acheson 6 digs, 4 kills; Sumner 12 digs, 2 aces
Posted by Fred Steiner on Wednesday, September 30, 2020

By Cort Reynolds
ADA - The host Ada volleyball team lost in straight sets to Lima Central Catholic in a non-league match Tuesday night.

The 25-15, 25-10, 25-17 defeat dropped the Lady Bulldog overall record to 7-8. LCC won behind strong serving and powerful hitting to improve to 8-7.

"Our serve receive wasn't as strong as in the past," said Bulldog third-year head coach Kyleigh Tabor said. "But LCC had a lot of good servers. They kept us off balance with their serves.

"Our blocking was off, we had zero blocks in the match," Tabor added. "They had some good outside hitters who put the ball away, and they killed us on tips."

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Girls' soccer: Ada loses to BHS

Olivia Green compiled a season-high 22 saves
Posted by Fred Steiner on Tuesday, September 29, 2020

By Cort Reynolds
ADA - The visiting Bluffton girls soccer team shut out Ada 5-0 on a wet Monday evening at the park as the Pirate girls clinched at least a tie for the Northwest Conference crown.

Bluffton improved to 8-2-1 overall and 6-0 in NWC play with their seventh consecutive win. Ada fell to 2-8 overall and 0-4 in NWC action with the defeat. 

Laykin Garmatter and Reagan Mittendorf each netted a pair of goals to pace the Pirate girls to victory.

Garmatter scored the first two goals in the 12th and 24th minutes to give Bluffton a 2-0 lead at intermission.

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Boys' soccer: Bluffton stops Bulldogs

Ada travels to Van Buren on Thursday in NCOSA battle
Posted by Fred Steiner on Tuesday, September 29, 2020

By Cort Reynolds
BLUFFTON - The visiting Ada boys soccer team lost to undefeated Bluffton 7-0 Monday night at Steinmetz Field in a battle for first place in the Northwest Conference.

Five-time defending league champion Bluffton improved to 10-0-1 and 3-0 in the NWC (nine points) with the decisive win.

Ada fell to 6-4 overall and 3-1 in the Northwest Conference standings with nine points after the defeat. 

The Pirates have now won 28 straight league matches. They are ranked first in the coaches' Div. III northwest region poll.

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