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Five Polar Bears named Academic All-OAC in football

Posted by Reema Bazzy on Tuesday, December 4, 2012

Five Ohio Northern student/athletes were named Academic All-Ohio Athletic Conference in football for 2012 in voting conducted by the league's 10 faculty advisors.

Senior Cullen Zelachowski, juniors Josh Bryan and Mike King and sophomores David Woolley and Sean Wolf were named Academic All-OAC.

Zelachowski is a three-year regular and a two year starter on the offensive line and is majoring in civil engineering.

A versatile player, Zelachowski started all 10 games this season and played four different positions. He started three times at left tackle, four times at left guard, once at right guard and twice at right tackle.

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Eight named Academic All-OAC in men's soccer

Posted by Reema Bazzy on Tuesday, December 4, 2012

Eight Ohio Northern men's soccer students/athletes were voted Academic All-OAC for the 2012 season in voting done by the league's 10 faculty advisors.

Senior Nate Bascom, Mac Church, and Austin Windsor, juniors Jeremy Barnes, Brett Bomba, Matt Fleming, Stephen Perkins and Ken Wachtel all earned selections for Northern.

Bascom earned his second straight Academic All-OAC selection. He was also named CoSIDA Academic All-American of the Year and was also named to the CoSIDA Academic All-America First Team.

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Jordan Breitigam named OAC Men's Swimmer of the Week

Posted by Reema Bazzy on Monday, December 3, 2012

Junior Jordan Breitigam has been named OAC Men's Swimmer of the Week.

At the Wooster Invitiational, he posted a time of 49.57 in the 100 fly which broke a school record and bettered the NCAA "B" Cut.

Breitigam also finished second in the 200 fly in 1:55.37.He was also part of the winning 200 and 400 medlay relay teams.

Northern finished second of 10 teams with 1475.5 points, and won five of the 20 events on the weekend.

Ohio Northern will return to action next Saturday when they will host Defiance and Findlay in a tri-meet at 1 pm at the ONU Sports Center.

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Rayhill named OAC Women's Swimmer of the Week

Posted by Reema Bazzy on Monday, December 3, 2012

Junior Lindsey Rayhill has been named OAC Women's Swimmer of the Week for the week of December 3.

Rayhill broke the school record and surpassed the NCAA "B" Cut in the 100 back, posting a time of 57.66 on Thursday at the Wooster Invitational.

She also finished third in the 100 fly with a time of 2:07.03 and was fifth in the 200 I.M. finishing in 2:13.22.

Rayhill was also part of the 200 and 400 medlay relay teams, as well as the 200 free relay team that finished third, third and seventh respectively.

The Polar Bears finished sixth out of 10 teams with 851 points.

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Top-ranked Kyle Kwiat registers dominating performance to lead No. 13 wrestling at 32nd annual ONU Invitational

Posted by Reema Bazzy on Sunday, December 2, 2012

Senior All-American and defending national champion Kyle Kwiat turned in a domunating performance to lead the No. 13-ranked Ohio Northern wrestling team at the 32nd Annual ONU Invitational Saturday at the ONU Sports Center.

The Polar Bears finished fifth of 16 teams with 94.5 points in the team standings.

No. 13 Olivet (Mich.) won the team title with 140.5 points, NAIA No. 3-ranked Campbellsville (Ky.) was second with 128 points and West Liberty State (W.Va.) was third with 116 points.

Five Ohio Northern wrestlers placed in the top eight of their respective weight classes.

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Lucas Pennington scores a career-high 23 points to lead men's basketball in 79-75 loss at North Park (Ill.)

Posted by Reema Bazzy on Sunday, December 2, 2012

Sophomore Lucas Pennington scored a career-high 23 points to lead the Ohio Northern men's basketball team in a 79-75 non-conference loss at North Park (Ill.) on Saturday.

The Polar Bears fall to 4-3, while the Vikings improve to 2-3.
Pennington led four ONU players in double figures in scoring, as junior Branden Rushton scored 15 points and junior Jared Horstman and sophomore Jordan Martin chipped in 12 points each.

North Park's Mark Holmes poured in a game-high 36 points to lead all scorers.
Northern used an 11-2 run late in the first half to turn a 31-31 tie into a 42-33 lead with 1:20 left before intermission.

ONU took a 45-36 lead into halftime.

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