The Ohio Northern men's cross country team placed seventh of 37 teams at the NCAA III Great Lakes Regional Championships on Saturday afternoon, November 13, at Blue River Memorial Park.
The polar Bears scored 277 points in the meet and will finish their season with a 94-39 overall record.
No. 7-ranked John Carroll won with 62 points, No. 13 Otterbein was second with 89 points, No. 28 Case Western Reserve was third with 1047 and No. 30 Calvin (Mich.) was fourth with 120 points.
Senior Patrick Baker (Massillon/Jackson) led the Polar Bears with a 42nd place finish in a career-low 25:55.
The Ohio Northern men's basketball team opened its 2021-22 season with a 72-65 victory over a very good Saint John Fisher (N.Y.) squad in the opening game of the Case Western Reserve Bill Sidlack Tournament on Saturday night, November 6, at Horsburgh Gymnasium.
The Polar Bears (1-0 overall) will advance to the championship game on Sunday at 3 pm against either Case Western Reserve or Wisconsin-Eau Claire.
The Cardinals (0-1), who are receiving votes in the D3hoops.com preseason Division III poll, fall to the consolation game at 1 pm on Sunday.
Junior Landen Long (Mason) led four Northern players on double figures in scoring with 14 points.
Ohio Northern senior Melina Woods (Ada) and freshman Taylor Baxter (Bellevue) have been named to the All-Ohio Athletic Conference First Team, joining senior Kiki Carle (Cincinnati/Mother of Mercy) and freshmen Rachel Jennings (Novi, Mich.) and Erin Wagner (Massillon/Perry) on the 2021 All-Conference Volleyball Team in voting conducted by the league's 10 head coaches.
Baxter was also selected as the OAC Freshman of the Year.
Jennings and Carle were Second Team selections, and Wagner rounded out the ONU quintet as an Honorable Mention pick.
Junior Lauren Naso (Grosse Ile, Mich.) played the hero for the Ohio Northern women's soccer team Thursday night, scoring both goals in a 2-1 double-overtime win over Capital in the Ohio Athletic Conference Tournament semifinals at Kerscher Stadium.
The victory improves the No. 2 seed Polar Bears to 12-4-3 overall and advances them to their seventh consecutive OAC Tournament championship game.
ONU will play at top-seeded and defending champion Otterbein on Saturday at 2 p.m. for what will be a rematch of the past three OAC Tournament finals.
Naso scored with just under three minutes remaining in Thursday's first half to give the Polar Bears a 1-0 halftime edge.
It may seem like the Boston Celtics and professional basketball have been around forever. In a new article for celticsblog.com, Ada Icon sportswriter Cort Reynolds tells us the story of the early team and its competition:
"The Boston Celtics are one of eight teams who have existed since the Basketball Association of America was formed for its inaugural campaign in 1946-47. Only Boston and the New York Knicks have remained in their original city since the league’s inception.
