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Shook and Reed are ONU’s Lamb Award winners

Seniors Sam Shook (New Philadelphia) and Maddy Reed (Piketon) were named Ohio Northern's Clyde Lamb Award winners for the 2018-19 academic year at the 2019 Ohio Athletic Conference Awards Banquet at the Crowne Plaza in Columbus on Monday evening.

The prestigious award is the highest honor given to OAC student-athletes each year, including one male and one female representative from the league's 10 institutions.

Three Ada netters play at BG districts

By Cort Reynolds
BOWLING GREEN - Three members of the Ada tennis team competed at the Div. II district tournament Thursday in Bowling Green.

The top four placers at district qualify for the Div. II state meet in Mason next weekend. Play was single elimination in the first two rounds.

Ada's Isaac Spar entered the 16-player field as one of the top four seeds after winning the Lima sectional at UNOH.

Spar played junior Stephane Granato of Maumee Valley in the first round Thursday at BGSU. Spar won the first set 6-0, but then Granato rallied to take the last two sets 6-3, 6-2.

Football in May...in Germany? You bet...and ONU won

Exhibition game versus Allgau Coments, member of German Football League

By Tim Glon
KEMPTEN, GERMANY — Sophomore Cameron Hollander (Mariemont) drilled a 40-yard field goal with 2:48 left in the game to lead the Ohio Northern football team to a 9-7 exhibition victory over the Allgau Comets on Sunday afternoon at Illerstadion.

The Comets, who play in the top level of the German Football League, took a 7-0 lead with 5-yard touchdown pass on the final play of the first half by Calvin Stitt to cap a 7-play, 76-yard drive.

Play was suspended for 58 minutes after a thunderstorm rolled into the area less than a minute into the third quarter.

Mackenzie Wills named to all-OAC women’s tennis squad

The Ohio Northern women's tennis program landed five student-athletes on the All-Ohio Athletic Conference squads for the 2018-19 season, the league office announced Thursday morning.

Senior Ashley Ochsenhirt (Birmingham, Ala./Briarwood Christian) guided the Polar Bear honorees after being named First-Team All-OAC for the third consecutive season. In addition, freshman Olivia Schrager(Dayton/Miami Valley) was named Second-Team All-OAC while juniors Mackenzie Wills (Ada), Katie Curry(Oxford/Talawanda), and Kaleigh Cummins (Springfield/Northeastern) were each awarded Honorable Mention status.

Bulldog Mattson wins district title; 5 to regionals

Five advance to regionals: Noah Mattson, Nora Dellifield, Miguel Jordan, Alex Morgan, Philip Gautier

By Cort Reynolds
FINDLAY - Five Ada track and field athletes made it to regionals at the Div. III district meet hosted by Liberty-Benton in Findlay Thursday and Saturday.

Ada senior Noah Mattson took first in the shot put, and junior Nora Dellifield finished third in the pole vault to post the top Bulldog individual finishes for the males and females.

Mattson is on a quest to return to the state meet and finish higher on the final podium.
 
Ada senior Miguel Jordan moved up from eighth in the 800 meter preliminary heats Thursday to finish third Saturday, clinching a return to regionals.

ONU track teams at pre-nationals

Sophomores Matt Bradshaw (Cleveland/Norton) and Owen Lloyd (Colfax, Ind./Clinton Prairie) and freshman Andrew Buderer (Oak Harbor) represented the Ohio Northern men's track and field team at the Gregory Invitational at North Central (Ill.), rounding out the program's pre-national championship slate.

The meet, which served as an official last chance qualifier for the 2019 NCAA Division III Championships, was not scored.

Bradshaw and Buderer each registered top-three finishes to lead the way at Benedetti-Wehrli Stadium Wednesday and Thursday.

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