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Ada HS holding meetings to help with questions about financial aid and college-credit enrollment options for students

Posted by Reema Bazzy on Monday, January 14, 2013

Ada High School will hold two meeting of interest to students looking towards pursuing additional education, both during and beyond high school.  Both meetings will be held in the cafeteria.

Post Secondary Enrollment Options/Credit Flexibility Meeting

January 23, 6:00 p.m.

Students and parents are invited to attend the meeting to learn about the Post Secondary Enrollment Options program mandated by Senate Bill 140. 

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Ada's "Miss Ohio" Miss America title run comes to an end

Posted by Reema Bazzy on Monday, January 14, 2013

Ada hometown girl, ONU pharmacy student and Miss Ohio Elissa McCracken did not take home the crown in the Miss America pageant on Sunday.   The winner was Mallory Hytes Hagan, Miss New York. 

Elissa will continue her pursuit of her doctoral degree in Pharmacy at ONU and still has duties as Miss Ohio.

Should the Icon receive information on any homecoming activities around Elissa's return to Ada you can read about it here on the Ada Icon.

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Most popular baby names in 2012

Posted by Reema Bazzy on Monday, January 14, 2013

For the second year running, 'Mason' was the most popular name for Blanchard Valley Hospital (Bluffton campus) born boys. Of the over 200 names provided to the Icon by BVH, Bluffton OB Department, 'Mason' appeared four times, more than any other name, boy or girl.  

For the rest of the boys, the following names appeared more than once:

Abram  Aidan  Asher  Carter  Connor  James
Jase  Jaxson/Jaxon  Joel  Kaleb  Landon  Levi  Logan/Login  Oliver
Ryker  Samual  Thomas  William  Wyatt

For girls, there was no clear front runner among the first names. 'Savannah'  appeared on our list three times.  The names that appeared twice were:

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No. 9 women's basketball stays perfect in OAC play with 61-47 win at Capital

Posted by Reema Bazzy on Sunday, January 13, 2013

By Andrew Korba

The No. 9 Ohio Northern women's basketball team extend their winning streak to 13 games with a 61-47 victory over Capital at  the Capital Center on Saturday afternoon.

With the win, the Polar Bears are now 14-1 on the season and a perfect 8-0 in OAC play, while the Crusaders fall to 10-5, 5-3.

Senior Joanna Snyder led the way for Northern with 16 points on 8-of-11 shooting.

Junior Cenzie Yoder added 13 points and nine rebounds and senior Morgan Dumbaugh scored 11.

Cookie Geroski led Capital with 12 points on the afternoon.

ONU never trailed in the contest and began the game with a 9-0 run.

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Comeback effort falls short as men's basketball drops 69-64 decision to Capital

Posted by Reema Bazzy on Sunday, January 13, 2013

By Tim Glon

Ohio Northern rallied from a 19-point deficit to close within two, but Capital held on for an exciting 69-64 men's basketball victory Saturday at the ONU Sports Center.

The Polar Bears fall to 7-8 overall and are 3-5 in Ohio Athletic Conference play, while the Crusaders improve to 11-4 overall and stay atop the OAC with an 8-0 mark.

Junior Jared Horstman scored 14 points, sophomore Lucas Pennington scored 14 points and junior Branden Rushton chipped in 12 points for ONU.

Capital was led by Spencer Niekamp and Tim Congrove with 17 points each.

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Kyle Kwiat becomes ONU's all-time career wins leader as #19 wrestling finishes fifth at Lycoming Duals

Posted by Reema Bazzy on Sunday, January 13, 2013

By Tim Glon

Senior Kyle Kwiat became Ohio Northern's all-time career wins leader, leading the No. 19-ranked Polar Bears to a fifth place finish at the 2013 Budd Whitehill Duals at Lycoming (Pa.) College on Saturday.

Kwiat went 3-0 on Saturday, leading ONU to victories over Thiel (Pa.), Williams (Mass.) and No. 25 College of NBew Jersey, and posted a  6-0 record on the weekend.

The Polar Bears defeated Thiel 32-8, topped Williams 26-11 and won the fifth place match 24-19 over New Jersey.

Kwiat, the defending national champion and nation's top-ranked wrestler at 174 pounds is now 22-3 on the season and is 135-16 in his career.

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