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Women’s tennis opens with tri-match win

Posted by LizGH on Saturday, September 7, 2019

The Ohio Northern women's tennis team opened its 2019-20 season with victories over Defiance and Lourdes in a tri-match at Defiance's Dix Tennis Facility on Wednesday afternoon.

The Polar Bears (2-0 overall) opened the day with a 9-0 victory over host Defiance (0-2), then topped Lourdes (0-1) 8-1.

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Lady Bulldog kickers stomp Panthers 10-0

Poling, Dodge and Robirds each netted two goals. Poling also doled out two assists. East, Badertscher and Mullins added one assist apiece.
Posted by Fred Steiner on Friday, September 6, 2019

By Cort Reynolds
ADA - The Ada girls soccer team whipped visiting Northwest Conference foe Paulding 10-0 Thursday evening.

The win improved the Lady Bulldog record to 2-4 overall and 1-2 in the NWC. Paulding fell to 0-5 overall and 0-2 in the NWC with the defeat.

"The majority of the game was played on our offensive end," said Ada head coach Doug Poling. "We dominated shots on goal."

After a scoreless opening 15 minutes, the Bulldogs broke on top when Katie Butterfield scored on a cross from Ella Poling. Poling made it 2-0 moments later when Ella Badertscher played a through ball to her.

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Ada spikers fall to Vikings in four sets

Columbus Grove next on the schedule
Posted by Fred Steiner on Friday, September 6, 2019

By Cort Reynolds
ADA - The host Ada volleyball team lost in four sets to visiting Leipsic Thursday evening.

The Lady Bulldogs fell to 4-4 with the 25-13, 25-20, 20-25, 25-16 defeat.

"We had some momentum heading to the fourth set, but they had too many runs," said Bulldog second-year head coach Kyleigh Tabor. "We couldn't side out. But I am proud of the way we came back in the third set.

"Leipsic has a good team with solid middle and outside hitters," she added. "We were not able to overcome our slow starts."

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ONU All-American named OAC volleyball player of the week

Posted by LizGH on Friday, September 6, 2019

Ohio Northern senior All-American Chelsea Huppert (Bremen, Ind.) was named the Ohio Athletic Conference Volleyball Player of the Week form her efforts in the 41st AnnuL ONU Invitational Friday at Saturday at the ONU Sports Center.

Huppert led the No. 23-ranked Polar Bears to victories over No. 13 Illinois Wesleyan and Transylvania (Ky.).

Northern also dropped a 4-set decision to No. 2 Calvin (Mich.) and a 5-set thriller to No. 6 Wittenberg.

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Ada golfers 3rd in tough NWC quad

Alex Morgan paced the Bulldogs by shooting a 47
Posted by Fred Steiner on Thursday, September 5, 2019

By Cort Reynolds
BLUFFTON - The Ada golf team finished a solid third in a four-team Northwest Conference battle Wednesday at the Bluffton Golf Course.

Co-host Bluffton won with just 171 strokes, followed by Lincolnview (183), Ada (207) and Delphos Jefferson (210).

Senior Alex Morgan paced the Bulldogs by shooting a 47. Other than one bad stretch on the second hole, Morgan shot 36 over the other eight holes.

Junior Brevin Sizemore was second for Ada with a total of 52.

Senior Ethan Hull, sophomore Dexter Woods and junior Jacob Morgan each tied for third on the Bulldog squad with identical rounds of 54.

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Lydia Cranmer OAC women’s golfer of the week

Posted by LizGH on Thursday, September 5, 2019

Ohio Northern junior Lydia Cranmer (Farmington Hills, Mich./Ladywood) was named the Ohio Athletic Conference Women's Golfer of the Week for the week of Aug. 26-Sept. 2.

Cranmer won Medalist honors for the seventh time in her career to lead the ONU women's golf team to the team title at the ONU Fall Invitational on Saturday at Colonial Golfers Club.

The 36-hole tournament was shortened to 18 holes after play was suspended midway through Sunday's second round due to heavy rains.

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