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Last week and this week in ONU athletics

Posted by Fred Steiner on Tuesday, November 6, 2012

Here's last week's ONU athletic team results and this week's schedule. The attachment at the bottom of this story provides more details.

Last Week at Ohio Northern:

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ONU vball team to face Wittenberg

Posted by Fred Steiner on Tuesday, November 6, 2012

B: Andrew Korba

The Ohio Northern women's volleyball team will return to the NCAA Tournament and face off against defending national champion and No. 3-ranked Wittenberg in the first round of the 2012 NCAA Division III Volleyball Tournament in Grand Rapids, Mich.

This will be the Polar Bears 28th appereance in the 31-year history of the NCAA III Tournamnent.

Ohio Northern will play the Tigers on Thursday at a time to be determined.

The ONU/Wittenberg winner will face the either No. 4 Hope (Mich.) or No. 12 Otterbein in the second round on Friday.

The Regional finals are slated for Saturday.

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ONU women tabbed to finish second in OAC preseason poll

Posted by Fred Steiner on Tuesday, November 6, 2012

By Andrew Korba

The Ohio Northern women's basketball team was chosen to finish second out of 10 teams in the OAC Women's Basketball Preseason poll in voting done by the league's 10 head coaches.

No. 6 and defending OAC champion Mount Union was tabbed to finish first with 79 points and seven first place votes.

ONU was picked to finish second with 73 points and two first place votes, followed by Baldwin Wallace who received 62 points and one first place vote.

Northern finish the 2011-12 campaign with a 21-6 record and 14-4 mark in the OAC.

The Polar Bears also made their first apperance in the OAC Tournament Championship game since 1989.

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Men's Basketball picked to finish seventh in OAC Preseason Poll

Posted by Fred Steiner on Tuesday, November 6, 2012

By Andrew Korba

-The Ohio Northern men's basketball team was chosen to finish seventh out of 10 teams in the OAC Preseason Men's Basketball Poll in voting conducted by the league's 10 head coaches.

Capital was tabbed to finish first with 74 points, bringing in six first place votes.

Baldwin Wallace and Marietta each received 67 points, but the Yellow Jackets received three first place votes compared to one for the Pioneers.

The Polar Bears received 35 votes.

ONU welcomes in new head coach Kevin Byrne, who will begin his first season at the helm.

Northern went 14-14 last season and had a 8-10 mark in OAC play.

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Bulldogs demolish Tigers in lopsided first round of playoffs

Posted by Fred Steiner on Monday, November 5, 2012

VIEW GAME PHOTOS AT BOTTOM OF THIS STORY.

PRESALE TICKETS: Starting Wednesday, there will be presale tickets available in the high school office for Friday’s varsity football game with St. Henry at Lima Stadium. The game starts at 7:30 p.m.. All tickets are $7. All tickets at the game will be $9. Ada is the home team and will sit in the home bleachers. The gates will open at 6:30 p.m..

By Levi Klingler

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Three ONU sports set to compete in OAC Tournament Championship Weekend

Posted by Fred Steiner on Saturday, November 3, 2012

B: Andrew Korba

ADA--The Ohio Northern men's soccer team, women's soccer team and volleyball team will all compete for an OAC Tournament Championship this weekend.

The No. 7 men's soccer team is the top seed in the OAC Men's Soccer Tournament.

The Polar Bears finished a perfect 9-0-0 in OAC regular season play and ended up with an 18-2 overall record.

By being the top seed, Northern has the privilege of hosting the OAC Tournament as the highest remaining seed.

ONU will take on No. 4 seed Heidelberg on Friday at 2 pm at the ONU Soccer Field.

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