Men's Soccer ranked No. 14 in first weekly NSCAA/Continental Tires Division III Poll

September 2, 2014

By: Ashley Birchmeier

ADA – The Ohio Northern men's soccer team is ranked No. 14 in the first weekly 2014 NSCAA/Continental Tire Men's Division III poll.

The Polar Bears (2-0-0 overall) were ranked No. 23 in the preseason poll, released Aug. 4.

Messiah (Pa.) remains ranked No. 1, Loras (Iowa) moves up one spot to No. 2 and St. Lawrence (N.Y.) moves up four spots to No. 3.

ONU opened its 2014 campaign by winning the ONU Invitational by defeating Muskegon (Mich.) CC 9-0 and now-No. 24 DePauw (Ind.) 3-2 in double overtime.

Ohio Northern will travel to Georgia this weekend for the Berry Invitational and will face No. 24 Emory (Ga.) on Saturday and host Berry (Ga.) on Sunday.

NSCAA Division III Men's Poll - Poll 1

Sept. 2, 2014

		2014	Last
Rank	School	Record	Week
1.	Messiah (Pa.)	2-0-0	1
2.	Loras (Iowa)	2-0-0	t3
3.	St. Lawrence (N.Y.)	2-0-0	7
4.	Kenyon	2-0-0	14
5.	Williams (Mass.)	20-0-0	6
6.	Montclair State (N.J.)	2-0-0	9
7.	Franklin & Marshall (Pa.)	2-0-0	10
8.	Trinity (Tex.)	2-0-0	5
9.	Amherst (Mass.)	0-0-0	t3
10.	Wheaton (Ill.)	1-1-0	15
11.	Wartburg (Iowa)	2-0-0	16
12.	Rutgers-Camden (N.J.)	1-1-0	2
13.	Oneonta State (N.Y.)	1-0-0	RV
14.	Ohio Northern	1-0-0	23
15.	Brandeis (Mass.)	2-0-0	17
16.	Washington (Mo.)	2-1-0	t24
17.	Christopher Newport (Va.)	2-0-0	NR
18.	Scranton (Pa.)	2-0-0	NR
19.	Calvin (Mich.)	1-1-0	NR
20.	Renssalear Polytecnic Instityte (N.Y.)	2-0-0	NR
21.	Wisconsin-Oshkosh (Wis.)	2-0-0	20
22.	Ohio Wesleyan	1-1-0	8
23.	DePauw (Ind.)	1-1-0	NR
24.	Emory (Ga.)	1-0-1	NR
25.	Hope (Mich.)	1-1-0	21

Others Receiving Votes: Brockport (N.Y.), Wheaton (Mass.), Chicago (Ill.), Oberlin, Swarthmore (Pa.), Saint John's (Minn.), Rochester (N.Y.), Whitworth (Calif.)