Men's Cross Country ranked No. 20 in fourth weekly USTFCCCA poll

October 7, 2015

By Tim Glon

ADA – The Ohio Northern men's cross country team moved to No. 20 in the fourth weekly United States Track and Field and Cross Country Coaches Association Division III poll on Wednesday.

The Polar Bears (70-1 overall) received 126 points in the voting after being ranked No. 19 with 131 points in the second and third weekly polls.

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

Wisconsin-Eau Claire moved into the top spot with 280 points and all eight first place votes, North Central (Ill.) was second with 267 points and St. Olaf (Minn.) is third with 265 points.

Ohio Northern won the All-Ohio Championships meet on Saturday and will compete again on Oct. 17 at the Oberlin Rumble.

USTFCCCA Division III Poll - Week 4

Oct. 7, 2015

		Total	Last
Rank	School (1st Place Votes)	Points	Week
1.	Wisconsin-Eau Claire (8)	280	t6
2.	North Central (Ill.)	267	1
3.	St. Olaf (Minn.)	265	2
4.	Amherst (Mass.)	260	3
5.	Washington (Mo.)	247	4
6.	Geneseo State (N.Y.)	236	t8
7.	Williams (Mass.)	232	5
8.	Wisconsin-LaCrosse	222	t8
9.	Haverford (Conn.)	218	16
10.	Claremont-Mudd-Scripps (Calif.)	211	10
11.	Wabash (Ind.)	192	11
	St. Lawrence (N.Y.)	192	t6
13.	MIT	183	12
14.	Wisconsin-Oshkosh	173	14
15.	Carnegie Mellon (Pa.)	171	13
16.	Pomona-Pitzer (Calif.)	164	15
17.	Allegheny (Pa.)	156	27
18.	Johns Hopkins (Md.)	142	20
19.	Bates (Maine)	134	18
20.	Ohio Northern	126	19
21.	Wesleyan (Conn.)	121	NR
22.	Wartburg (Iowa)	117	22
23.	Augustana (Ill.)	97	24
24.	Loras (Iowa)	93	26
25.	Colby (Maine)	92	21
26.	John Carroll	64	NR
27.	RPI (N.Y.)	63	30
28.	Saint Thomas (Minn.)	62	29
29.	Wisconsin-Platteville	57	28
30.	Tufts (Conn.)	51	25
31.	Central (Iowa)	38	31
32.	Willamette (Ore.)	30	NR
33.	New York U.	24	t34
34.	Middlebury (Vt.)	12	33
	Emory (Ga.)	12	t34

Others Receiving Votes: Calvin 8, Elizabethtown 8, Dickinson 7, Puget Sound 5, Hamilton 5, SUNY Oneonta 4, Chicago 2, Rowan 1, Saint John's (Minn.) 1, Messiah 1.