Sports

-Four players scored in double figures as the No. 15 Ohio Northern women's basketball team defeated Otterbein by a 71-43 score at the Rike Center on Wednesday night.

With the win, the Polar Bears improve to 10-1 and remain a perfect in OAC play at 5-0, while the Cardinals fall to 6-3, 2-2.

Senior Morgan Dumbaugh led Northern with 13 points.

Junior Cenzie Yoder and freshman Brooke Espenschied each scored 12, while senior Joannna Snyder chipped in with 11.

The Polar Bears had a lead for the majority of the first half and found themselves ahead 31-23 with 34 seconds left in the first half.

Four Ohio Northern women's soccer players were named All-Ohio and four were named Academic All-Ohio in voting conducted by the Ohio Collegiate Soccer Association.

Senior Tara Tokar and sophomore Kristina Klusek were named First Team All-Ohio.

Senior defender Paige Garber and juniorAbby Vargo were both named Second Team All-Ohio.

Head coach Mark Batman was also named Coach of the Year.

Garber and Tokar were named First Team Academic All-Ohio, while junior Abbie Schauble was named Second Team Academic All-Ohio and junior Lauren Brown was named Third Team Academic All-Ohio.

Tokar, a pharmacy major, was named to the NSCAA Scholar All-Region team.