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By Tim Glon

The Ohio Northern women's golf team ended its 2012 Fall schedule with a fourth place finish at the Indiana U.-East Waterfront Classic Thursday afternoon at the Harbor Links Golf Course.

The Polar Bears will head to their winter break with a 14-18 record.

Northern finished with 404 strokes to finish fourth out of six teams on the par 72, 5905-yard course.

Ursuline won the team title with a 354, Urbana was second with a 375 and Northwestern Ohio was third with a 383.

Sophomore Megan Conley led the Polar Bears by tying for 11th out of 35 golfers with a 97.

By Levi Klingler

Last Friday night, the Ada Bulldogs faced what many considered to be their first challenge of the season against the playoff bid hopeful Crestview Knights in a Homecoming game hampered by nasty weather and less than ideal field conditions.

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Nonetheless, the Bulldogs were able to pull away with a glorious 26-21 victory in the closing minutes of the thrilling barn burner, putting the Bulldogs at 7-0 (5-0 NWC) and the Knights at 3-4 (1-4 NWC).

 

By Jake Schwerer

The No. 9 Ohio Northern men's soccer team remained undefeated in the OAC with a 2-0 victory over the Otterbein Cardinals Wednesday afternoon at the ONU Soccer Field.

The Polar Bears are now 13-2-0 overall and sit in first place in the OAC at 4-0, while the Cardinals fall to 4-7-1, 0-3-1.

The Polar Bears quickly got on the board in eighth minute when senior Nate Bascom passed the ball to fellow senior Cameron Johnson who fired a shot in the box to beat the goalie.

This was Johnson's ninth goal of the season.

By Tim Glon

 Sophomore Allison Fye fired an 89 to lead the Ohio Northern women's golf team in a tri-match with Northwestern Ohio and Notre Dame (Ohio) on a cold and blustery Wednesday afternoon at Colonial Golfers Club.

The Polar Bears (12-15) finished third with 381 strokes. Notre Dame won the team title with a 365 and Northwestern Ohio was second with a 371.

Fye finished second of 15 golfers for ONU with her 89 on the par 72, 5876-yard course.

Sophomore Megan Conley tied for sixth with a 91, freshman Alex Manno was 11th with a 99 and freshman Courtney Knippen was 12th with a 102 for ONU.

 

By Jordan Garrison

Sophomore Kristina Klusek scored in the 54th minute, but Otterbein scored two first half goals and held on for a 2-1 victory over the Ohio Northern women's soccer team Tuesday afternoon at Ohio Northern soccer field.

The Polar Bears drop to 6-3-3 overall and 1-3-0 in the OAC, while the Cardinals move to 9-4-0, 4-0-0.

Lindsay Henderson scored on a penalty kick with 6:43 gone in the match. Morgan Hendrickson was taken down in the box on a breakaway, setting up a penalty kick.

Otterbein added to its lead in the 42nd minute when Jessica Yaney put the ball in the net on a cross from Molly Kroger.

By Zaji Lieberman

D3soccer.com

The Ohio Northern women's soccer team receives votes in the sixth weekly D3soccer.com poll.

Ohio Northern received 2 votes and was ranked No. 20 in last week's poll.

Emory (Ga.) is ranked No. 1, Trinity (Tex.) is second and Messiah (Pa.) is third.

Last week, Northern fell at Capital 2-1 and at Baldwin-Wallace 1-0.

ONU has now been nationally ranked in each of the last two seasons and were ranked as high as No. 19 this season.

The Polar Bears will return to action Tuesday with a 4 pm match against Otterbein at the ONU Soccer Field.

D3soccer.com Women's Poll - #6
Oct. 9, 2012

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