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Trio of Polar Bear linemen named Preseason All-Ohio by OhioCollegeFootball.com

Posted by Fred Steiner on Wednesday, August 15, 2012

By Tim Glon
Three Ohio Northern players were named Preseason Division III All-Ohio for 2012 by OhioCollegeFootball.com.

Senior offensive linemen Kyle Smith and Tyler Joseph and senior nose tackle Cody Kelly were all Second Team selections.

Smith is a two-year starter at center and was a Second Team All-Ohio Athletic Conference honoree a year ago. He has started the last 22 games over the past two seasons.

Joseph is a two-year starter at right guard and has earned All-OAC and Academic All-OAC honors. Like Smith, Joseph has also started 22 consecutive games in his career.

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Ashley Sujkowski to play on National Women's Baseball team in 2012 Women's Baseball World Cup in Edmonton

Posted by Fred Steiner on Saturday, August 11, 2012

Ohio Northern senior shortstop Ashley Sujkowski will again represent the United States as a member of the 2012 USA Women's Baseball team.

Sujkowski will compete on Team USA in international baseball competition Aug. 10-19 at the IBAF Women's World Baseball Cup in Alberta, Canada.

She made the 20-woman roster during nationwide team tryouts June 2-Aug. 1.

Sujkowski has been a member of Team USA for the past three seasons, and helped Team USA win the bronze medal at the 2010 World Cup in Venezuela.

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ONU men's soccer team also ranked 12th in national poll

Posted by Fred Steiner on Friday, August 10, 2012

By Tim Glon
The Ohio Northern men's soccer team is ranked No. 12 in the 2012 Continental Tire/NSCAA Men's Division III preseason poll in voting conducted by the National Soccer Coaches Association of America.

The Polar Bears were ranked No. 11 in the final 2011 NSCAA poll.

ONU has now been nationally ranked in four of the past five seasons.

Ohio Wesleyan is ranked No. 1 after winning the 2011 NCAA III Tournament title, Saint Lawrence (N.Y.) is second and Messiah (Pa.) is third.

Northern will open its 2012 campaign at the Penn State-Behrend Tournament against Geneseo State (N.Y.) on Sept. 1 at 2:30 pm.

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ONU women's soccer team ranked 12th in national poll

Posted by Fred Steiner on Friday, August 10, 2012

By Tim Glon
ADA — The Ohio Northern women's soccer team is ranked No. 12 in the 2012 Continental Tire/NSCAA Women's Division III preseason poll in voting conducted by the National Soccer Coaches Association of America.

The Polar Bears were ranked No. 13 in the final 2011 NSCAA poll.

Messiah (Pa.) is ranked No. 1 after winning the 2011 NCAA III Tournament crown, William Smith (N.Y.) is second and Messiah (Pa.) was third.

Northern will open its 2012 campaign at home against Grove City (Pa.) on Aug. 31 at 4 pm and will host No. 17-ranked Case Western Reserve on Sept. 2 at 1 pm at the ONU Soccer Field.

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ONU football team picked to finished fourth in OAC

Posted by Fred Steiner on Thursday, August 9, 2012

By Tim Glon

Ohio Northern was selected to finish fourth in both the coaches and media polls at the 2012 Ohio Athletic Conference Football Media Day Wednesday afternoon at the Hilton Double Tree Hotel.

The Polar Bears received 234 votes from 31 media members in attendance to finish fourth in the media poll and received 54 points in the coaches poll.

Coaches could not vote for their own team in their poll.

Mount Union was voted atop both each poll, receiving 81 points and nine first place votes in the coaches poll and 309 points and 30 first place votes in the media poll.

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OHSAA Board of Directors meeting highlights

Posted by Fred Steiner on Thursday, August 2, 2012

The Ohio High School Athletic Association Board of Directors met Thursday at the OHSAA Office for its August meeting, which marked the first board meeting of the 2012-13 school year. The following are highlights from the meeting. The complete set of meeting minutes will be posted at a later date at OHSAA.org.

-          There are 824 member high schools in 2012-13. Of note, there are two new schools (Cincinnati College Preparatory and Cincinnati James N. Gamble Montessori), while four schools did not renew membership (Cleveland Horizon Science Academy, Orrville Kingsway Christian, Sidney Christian Academy and Cleveland School of the Arts).

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