Ohio Northern to compete in OAC Tournaments this week

By Steven Wright

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ADA — The No. 7 Ohio Northern volleyball team, No. 24 Ohio Northern women's soccer team and No. 25 Ohio Northern men's soccer team will all be competing in Ohio Athletic Conference Tournaments this week.

Each team will play at least one home contest on the campus of Ohio Northern.

The week will begin when the No. 3 seed Ohio Northern volleyball team hosts No. 6 seed John Carroll at 7 pm on Tuesday evening at the ONU Sports Center.

The volleyball squad finished tied for second in the OAC regular season and will be looking to win its fourth consecutive OAC Tournament Championship and its sixth in the last seven years.

With a victory, the volleyball team will play in the OAC semifinals on the campus of the highest remaining seed. Heidelberg is the No. 1 seed, while Mount Union is the No. 2 seed.

The volleyball OAC Tournament finals are scheduled for Saturday at 2 pm at the semifinal site.

Next, the No. 2 seed women's soccer team will host No. 3 seed John Carroll on Wednesday at 2 pm at the ONU Soccer Field. JCU defeated No. 6 seed Heidelberg 1-0 on Monday afternoon.

The women's soccer team finished in second place in the OAC regular season with 24 points, just one point behind OAC Regular Season Champions Otterbein.

The women's soccer team has never won the OAC Tournament, and has won the OAC Regular Season Championship three times (1991, 1998, 2007).

The finals are slated for Saturday at 2 pm on the campus of the highest remaining seed.

The men's soccer team enters the OAC Tournament as the No. 1 seed after claiming its fourth OAC Regular Season Championship in school history.

The team went unbeaten at 8-0-1 during the regular season after also winning OAC Regular Season Championships in 2000, 2003 and 2006.

No. 4 Heidelberg and No. 5 Marietta will play on Tuesday for the right to travel to ONU and face the top-seeded Polar Bears on Thursday at 2 pm in the OAC Tournament semifinals.

With a victory on Thursday, the men's soccer team will also host the OAC Tournament finals on Saturday at 2 pm. The Polar Bears also hosted the OAC Tournament finals last season, defeating Marietta 3-0 to advance to the NCAA Tournament.

If both the men's and women's soccer teams are supposed to host the OAC Tournament finals on Saturday, the women's championship will be played at noon and the men's championship will be played at 2:30 pm.

Live stats will be provided for all home contests.