Gaston scores career-high 19 as hot shooting second half leads Men's Basketball over Marietta 90-82

Gaston scores career-high 19 as hot shooting second half leads Men's Basketball over Marietta 90-82
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January 17, 2026
MARIETTA — Sophomore Conye Gaston (Toledo/Christian) had career-highs of 19 points and eight rebounds to help the hot-shooting Ohio Northern men's basketball team to a 90-82 win at Marietta on Saturday afternoon.
  • Records: Ohio Northern (9-7 Overall, 4-3 OAC), Marietta (7-9 Overall, 2-5 OAC).
  • Venue: Ban Johnson Arena — Marietta, Ohio.

The Game

  • Senior Will Miller (Ottoville) also had a team-high 19 points for ONU.
  • Junior Theo Maag (Ottowa Glandorf) pitched in 12 points.
  • Sophomore Aiden Harris (Pandora Gilboa) added 12 points as well and grabbed 8 rebounds.
  • Senior Mason Studer (Galion/Colonel Crawford) was the fifth Polar Bear in double figures in scoring with 10 points of his own.
  • Elijah Harden led the Pioneers with 24 points.
  • Trailing 42-38 at halftime, Ohio Northern heated up from beyond the arc in the second half, nailing 7-of-12 three-pointers.
  • An 18-4 Polar Bear run flipped the game from a 52-45 deficit to a 63-56 lead with 13:18 in the contest.
  • Leading 86-82 with :44 to go, Ohio Northern sunk 4-of-4 free throw attempts to close the door. 
  • MC used an 12-2 run to tighten things up, and cut the ONU lead to 83-78 with 2:01 left.
  • The Pioneers kept battling but Northern ripped a 12-4 run to push its lead to 78-66 with 9:29 remaining in the game. 
  • Marietta led by as many as 10 points in the first half but Northern responded late in the half with a Miller three-pointer to make it 42-38 at halftime.
  • Ohio Northern was 32-of-67 from the floor for 47.8 percent and made 12-of-24 three-pointers for 50.0 percent, while Marietta finished 28-of-58 from the field for 48.3 percent and 6-of-18 from three-point range for 33.3 percent. 
  • ONU made 14-of-19 free throws for 73.7 percent and MC was 20-of-26 from the foul line for 76.9 percent.
  • Each team grabbed 36 rebounds.

Notables

  • ONU now leads the all-time series with Marietta 62-48. 
  • Miller now ranks 30th all-time in ONU with 1,114 points in 90 career games. 
  • Miller is now 11th in ONU history with 148 steals.
  • Ohio Northern continues off its 115th season of varsity men's basketball and has a record of 1389-1091, a winning percentage of .560.
  • Head coach Jon Tropf is in his first season at Ohio Northern with a 9-7 record.

Up Next

  • The Polar Bears will return to action when they wrap up their 3-game road trip to face Baldwin Wallace on Wednesday at 7 pm.