Men's Cross Country moves up to No. 19 in second weekly USTFCCCA Division III poll

September 23, 2015

By Tim Glon

ADA – The Ohio Northern men's cross country team moved up four spots to No. 19 in the second weekly United States Track and Field and Cross Country Coaches Association Division III poll on Wednesday.

The Polar Bears (52-1 overall) received 131 points in the voting after winning the 22-team Rochester (N.Y.) Invitational last week.

ONU was ranked No. 23 with 103 points in the first weekly poll.

North Central (Ill.) remains ranked first with 280 points and all eight first place votes, St. Olaf (Minn.) is second with 269 points and Amherst (Mass.) is third with 267 points.

Ohio Northern is idle this weekend and will compete again on Oct. 2 at the All-Ohio Championships at Cedarville.

USTFCCCA Division III Poll - Week 2

Sept. 23, 2015

		Total	Last
Rank	School (1st Place Votes)	Points	Week
1.	North Central (Ill.) (8)	280	1
2.	St. Olaf (Minn.)	269	2
3.	Amherst (Mass.)	267	3
4.	Washington (Mo.)	256	7
5.	Wisconsin-Eau Claire	244	4
6.	St. Lawrence (N.Y.)	238	6
	MIT	238	5
8.	Williams (Mass.)	220	8
9.	Wisconsin-LaCrosse	216	9
10.	Wabash (Ind.)	206	12
11.	Claremont-Mudd-Scripps (Calif.)	205	10
12.	Carnegie Mellon (Pa.)	187	13
13.	Pomona-Pitzer (Calif.)	182	14
	Wisconsin-Oshkosh	182	15
15.	Calvin (Mich.)	164	19
16.	Geneseo State (N.Y.)	154	18
17.	Haverford (Conn.)	152	21
18.	Bates (Maine)	1498	32
19.	Ohio Northern	131	23
20.	Johns Hopkins (Md.)	125	20
21.	Tufts (Conn.)	123	11
22.	Loras (Iowa)	116	27
23.	Dickenson (Pa.)	107	22
24.	Colby (Maine)	99	17
25.	Wisconsin-Platteville	84	26
26.	Middlebury (Vt.)	79	24
27.	Allegheny (Pa.)	67	31
28.	Saint Thomas (Minn.)	65	RV
29.	RPI (N.Y.)	52	28
30.	Central (Iowa)	49	30
31.	Widener (Pa.)	35	29
32.	Carleton (Wis.)	23	33
	Emory (Ga.)	23	16
34.	Chicago (Ill.)	21	34
35.	Messiah (Pa.)	19	RV

Others Receiving Votes: New York U. 12.