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Sophomore Kristina Klusek named OAC Women's Soccer Player of the Week

Posted by Fred Steiner on Tuesday, October 30, 2012

 

By Tim Glon

Ohio Northern sophomore Kristina Klusek was named the Ohio Athletic Conference Women's Soccer Player of the Week for the week of Oct. 22-28.

Klusek scored five goals and added an assist as ONU (10-4-4 overall, 5-3-1 OAC) defeated Wilmington 2-1 and Muskingum 4-1 last week.

She had both goals, including the match-winner with 1:37 left to play, to lead ONU a win at Wilmington on Tuesday.

She then had a hat trick in the first half and added a second half assist as the Polar Bears won 4-1 at Muskingum on Saturday.

This season, Klusek leads ONU in scoring with 33 points on 13 goals and seven assists.

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Junior Kevin Weslosky named OAC Football Special Teams Player of the Week

Posted by Fred Steiner on Tuesday, October 30, 2012

By Tim Glon

Ohio Northern junior Kevin Weslosky was named the Ohio Athletic Conference Football Special Teams Player of the Week for his effort's in ONU's 20-19 victory over Muskingum on Saturday.

Weslosky averaged 36.0 yards on four punts with a long of 61 yards for ONU (3-5 overall, 3-4 OAC).

This marks the third consecutive week that an Ohio Northern athlete has won OAC Football Player of the Week honors, as senior Tate Humphrey was the Offensive POW on Oct. 22 and freshman Devon Price was the Special Teams POW on Oct. 15.

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Volleyball advances to semifinals of OAC Tournament after Baldwin Wallace withdraws from all postseason competition

Posted by Fred Steiner on Tuesday, October 30, 2012

The Ohio Northern volleyball team has advanced to the semifinals of the 2012 Ohio Athletic Conference Volleyball Tournament after Baldwin Wallace self reported NCAA violations and withdrew all of its teams from OAC and NCAA postseason competition for the entire academic year on Tuesday.

The No. 3-seeded Polar Bears (24-5 overall) were slated to host the sixth-seeded Yellow Jackets on Wednesday in the quarterfinals of the OAC Tournament and will now advance to the semifinals Friday night at a home of the highest seeded quarterfinal winner.

A statement from the Ohio Athletic Conference explains the situation:

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Icon switches to college-pro football weekly contest starting this week

Posted by Fred Steiner on Tuesday, October 30, 2012

With the high school regular football season over, The Icon switches its weekly football contest to 10 college games and five pro games. The first contest will be posted later today.

The weekly contest will always have a noon, Saturday, entry deadline. Viewers may enter as often as they wish, but must enter under someone else's name for the second or third entry.
The entry location is the same as the high school contest - at the bottom of the home page.

Duane Bollenbacher was the overall winner of the 10-week high school contest. The college-pro contest will start with a clean the slate, so the overall winner of this new contest is up in the air.

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Volleyball ends regular season with 3-0 sweep of Muskingum

Posted by Fred Steiner on Monday, October 29, 2012

By: Andrew Korba

ADA--The Ohio Northern volleyball team ended its regular season with a 3-0 (25-21, 25-14, 25-11) sweep of Muskingum Saturday afternoon at the ONU Sports Center.

With the win, the Polar Bears conclude the regular season with a 23-5 record, while the Muskies finish at 15-16, 3-6.

Ohio Northern will be the No. 3 seed in the OAC Tournament which kicks off next week.

The Polar Bears honored their two seniors as well, as the macth was Senior Day.

Senior Ellen Grenert paced ONU with 11 kills, while senior Kelsie Zumberger has 31 assists.

Junior Kristen Davidson had nine kills for Northern and hit a match high .474.

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Four earn All-Conference honors as Ohio Northern finishes second at 2012 OAC Men's Cross Country Championships

Posted by Fred Steiner on Monday, October 29, 2012

By Tim Glon

Juniors Mark Berton and Evan McKee each earned First Team All-Conference honors with top-9 finishes to lead  Ohio Northern to a second place finish at the 2012 Ohio Athletic Conference Men's Cross Country Championships Saturday afternoon at the Wilmington Cross Country Course.

The Polar Bears (80-24 overall) finished second of 10 teams with 76 points. Mount Union won the team title with 45 points, John Carroll was third with 94 points and WIlmington was fourth with 125 points.

Berton finished seventh in 26:03 and McKee was ninth in 26:08.

Four Polar Bear runners earned All-OAC honors by finishing in the top 18.

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