Men's Cross Country remains ranked No. 20 in fifth weekly USTFCCCA Division III poll

October 14, 2015

By Tim Glon

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

The Polar Bears (70-1 overall) received 129 points in the voting after being ranked No. 20 with 126 points last week.

ONU was ranked No. 19 in the second and third weekly polls and was No. 23 in the first weekly poll.

Wisconsin-Eau Claire remained in the top spot with 280 points and all eight first place votes, Amherst (Mass.) is second with 266 points and North Central (Ill.) is third with 264 points.

Ohio Northern will compete again on Saturday at the Oberlin Rumble.

USTFCCCA Division III Poll - Week 5

Oct. 14, 2015

		Total	Last
Rank	School (1st Place Votes)	Points	Week
1.	Wisconsin-Eau Claire (8)	280	1
2.	Amherst (Mass.)	266	4
3.	North Central (Ill.)	264	0
4.	St. Olaf (Minn.)	262	.
5.	Washington (Mo.)	248	2
6.	Geneseo State (N.Y.)	239	3
7.	Williams (Mass.)	231	4
8.	Wisconsin-LaCrosse	224	5
9.	Haverford (Conn.)	213	6
10.	Claremont-Mudd-Scripps (Calif.)	210	10
11.	Wabash (Ind.)	195	11
12.	MIT	191	13.
13.	St. Lawrence (N.Y.)	190	11
14.	Wisconsin-Oshkosh	174	14
15.	Carnegie Mellon (Pa.)	168	15
16.	Pomona-Pitzer (Calif.)	159	16
17.	Allegheny (Pa.)	153	17
18.	Johns Hopkins (Md.)	145	18
19.	Bates (Maine)	133	19
20.	Ohio Northern	129	20
21.	Wartburg (Iowa)	119	22
22.	Wesleyan (Conn.)	117	21
23.	Augustana (Ill.)	90	23
24.	Tufts (Conn.)	84	30
25.	Wisconsin-Platteville	82	29
26.	Loras (Iowa)	79	24
27.	John Carroll	72	26
28.	RPI (N.Y.)	69	27
29.	Colby (Maine)	64	25
30.	Saint Thomas (Minn.)	55	28
31.	Hamilton (N.Y.)	35	RV
32.	Central (Iowa)	30	31
33.	Willamette (Ore.)	28	32
34.	Calvin (Mich.)	20	RV
35.	Rowan (N.J.)	8	RV

Others Receiving Votes: Middlebury 4, Emory 4, TCNJ 2, Elizabethtown 2, Puget Sound 2.