The Ohio Northern women's tennis team opened its spring trip with an 8-1 victory over Occidental (Calif.) and 6-3 win over Cal Tech on Sunday.
The Polar Bears now stand at 8-1 on the season, while Occidental is 1-3 and Cal Tech falls to 3-2.
Against Occidental, Northern swept all three doubles courts by identical 8-2 scores.
Freshman Rachael Miller and junior Michelle Tuma won at No. 1 doubles, sophomores Kristin Cellentani and Brittany Miller won at the No. 2 position and freshman Meghan Letizia and junior Carly Olmstead were victorious at No. 3 doubles.
Senior Marc Anderson, junior Jordan Breitigam, junior Christian Garlock and senior Drew Keriazes will represent Ohio Northern at the 2013 NCAA Division III Men's Swimming & Diving Championships March 20-23 at the Conroe Natatorium in Shenandoah, Tex.
The four men qualified in the 200 medley relay, where they rank 11th nationally with an ONU record time of 1:31.05.
Breitigam also qualified in three individual events.
He is seeded seventh in the 200 fly in 1:49.08, is 12th in the 200 I.M. in 1:51.20 and 18th in the 100 fly in :49.24.
The Ohio Northern softball team is ranked No. 18 in the first 2013 National Fastpitch Coaches Association Division III poll released on Wednesday.
The Polar Bears received 8392 points in the poll, nine less than the 92 they received in the preseason poll, when they were ranked No. 15.
ONU has now been nationally ranked in five consecutive seasons and finished the year ranked No. 11 in 2012.
Montclair State (N.J.) is No. 1 with five first place votes and 197 points overall, Luther (Iowa) is second with 188 points and Tufts (Conn.) is third with 180 points.
The Ohio Northern men's swimming & diving team is ranked No. 25 in the fifth and final Endless Pools/CollegeSwimming.com Division III power rankings released on Wednesday.
The Polar Bears (11-2 overall, 5-0 Ohio Athletic Conference) have an 27.8 rating.
Points for the Endless Pools/CollegeSwimming.com Top 25 is calculated using the average percentile rank of each team's top twenty-seven in each meet.
The Top 25 teams are ranked according on the basis of each team's highest-scoring meet over a four-week period.
Kenyon is ranked No. 1, Denison is No. 2 and MIT is No. 3.
Senior Joanna Snyder was named Co-OAC Player of the Year and was one of three Ohio Northern women's basketball players selected as a First Team All-OAC honoree in voting done by the OAC coaches.
Snyder was named First Team All-OAC, as was senior Morgan Dumbaugh and junior Cenzie Yoder.
Senior Katie Mengos earned an Honorable Mention All-OAC selection.
In addition, head coach Michele Durand was named OAC Coach of the Year.
This is the third All-OAC honor for Snyder and first time she was named First Team.
She is second on the team in points averaging 13.4 ppg and is also second in rebounding at 6.0 rpg.
Ada High School sent a contingent of swimmers to the OHSAA state swim meet this past weekend in Canton and returned home with impressive finishes including one third place finish and one fourth place finish.
State qualifiers were Matthew Wilcox, Karl Karcher, Jon Robey and Mitchell Wilcox.
The Ada team qualifiers participated in Division II at Canton. The four state swimmers qualified through competition at the Sectional at the Lima YMCA and District at Bowling Green State University.
