By Tim Glon
The Ohio Northern women's swimming & diving team moved into a three-way tie in the Ohio Athletic Conference regular season standings with a 134-105 victory at Mount Union on Saturday.
The Polar Bears improve to 5-4 overall and are 3-1 in the OAC, while the Purple Raiders fall to 8-1, 3-1.
ONU and UMU are tied with John Carroll for first place in the OAC with 3-1 marks.
The Polar Bears won 10 of the 13 events on the day.
Junior Lindsey Rayhill and freshman Lindsey Inkrott each won two events and were part of ONU's winning 400 medley relay team.
Rayhill won the 200 I.M. in 2:17.70 and won the 100 fly in 1:00.16, while Inkrott won the 200 free in 2:02.03 and won the 100 back in 1:02.51.
The pair combined with junior Jennifer Hartsel and senior Mackenzie Hoffman to win the 400 medley relay in 4:11.85.
Senior Amy Elmer and sophomore Ashley Zoeller also won two events for ONU.
Emler swept the diving events, winning the 1-meter with 178.85 points and winning the 3-meter with 239.15 points.
Zoeller swept the distance free events, touching first in the 500 free in 5:38.56 and winning the 1000 free in 11:34.43.
Hoffman won the 100 free in :56.73.
Northern can win a share of its fifth consecutive OAC regular season title with a win on Senior Day next Saturday at home against Baldwin Wallace.
