Men's Golf: Ohio Northern (40-16 Overall) at OAC Championships
Friday-Sunday, April 24-26, River Greens Golf Course, West Lafayette, Ohio
This Weekend's Championships: The Polar Bears will compete at the 2015 Ohio Athletic Conference Championships Friday-Sunday at River Greens Golf Course, hosted by Muskingum ... The tournament is a 72-hole, stroke play event with flighted tee times at either 9 am or 10 am each day ... The teams will play 27 holes on Friday and Saturday and 18 holes on Sunday to crown a champion ... The top 10 individual finishers will receive All-Conference accolades ... ONU is the #2 seed afterwinning the OAC Spring Invitationaland finishing fifth at the OAC Fall Invitational ... At the OAC Spring tournament, ONU and Otterbein finished the 36-hole event tied with 305-310—615 scores ... Each 5-man team then played one playoff hole and ONU won with three pars and two bogeys compared to two pars and three bogeys by OU ... Individually, sophomore Blaine Ricketts also was in a playoff, falling in the first extra hole to Otterbein's David Monaco for Medalist honors ... The two golfers finished the regulation 36 holes with 4-over par 148s ... ONU has finished in the upper division of the OAC (4th or better) 45 times in the past 5 seasons ... Thus far this season, Ricketts leads the team in scoring at 76.8 strokes per round for 17 rounds ... Senior Colin Burns is second at 77.1, freshman Zach Goodchild is third at 77.8 and senior Ryan Wirtz is fourth at 78.4.
ONU Statistical Leaders
| Average |
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| 1. | Ricketts | 76.8 | |
| 2. | Burns | 77.1 | |
| 3. |
Goodchild |
77.8 |
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| 4. | Wirtz | 78.4 |
ONU's 2014-15 Record: 40-16 Overall.
ONU head coach Chad Bucci: Bucci is in his second season at ONU with a 77-67-2 record, a winning percentage of .534.