Men's Soccer ranked No. 16 in latest DIII Soccer poll
By Caleb Scott
ADA -- The Ohio Northern men's soccer team surged into the top-25 in the first weekly d3soccer.com poll after a 4-0 start to the 2016 campaign.
The Polar Bears (4-0-0 overall) have now been nationally ranked for six consecutive years and 10 times in the last 11 seasons.
Northern is ranked No. 16 in the poll with 434 points after being unranked in the preseason poll.
Amherst took the top spot in the rankings with 976 points, followed by Brandeis (867 points) and Kenyon (842 points).
The Polar Bears return to action Friday as they take on Albion (Mich.) at 5 pm at the Wilmington Kiwanis Classic.
D3Soccer.com Poll - Week 1
Sept. 7, 2016
| Rank | School (First Place Votes) | Record | Last Week |
| 1. | Amherst (Mass.) (15) | DNP | - |
| 2. | Brandeis (Mass.) (1) | 2-0-0 | - |
| 3. | Kenyon (1) | 2-0-0 | - |
| 4. | Loras (Iowa) | 2-0-0 | - |
| 5. | Trinity (Tex.) | 2-0-0 | - |
| 6. | Rowan (N.J.) (2) | 3-0-0 | - |
| 7. | Franklin & Marshall (Pa.) | 2-0-0 |
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| 8. | Ohio Wesleyan | 2-0-0 | - |
| 9. | Chicago (Ill.) | 2-0-0 | - |
| 10. | St. Lawrence (N.Y.) | 2-0-0 | - |
| 11. | Elizabethtown (Pa.) | 2-0-0 | - |
| 12. | Haverford (Pa.) | 1-1-0 | - |
| 13. | Calvin (Mich.) | 1-1-0 | - |
| 14. | MIT (Va.) | 1-0-0 | - |
| 15. | Chris. Newport (Va.) |
2-0-0 | - |
| 16. | Ohio Northern | 4-0-0 | - |
| 17. | Thomas More (Ky.) | 2-0-0 | - |
| 18. | Rose-Hulman (Ind.) | 2-0-0 | - |
| 19. | Redlands (Cal.) | 1-0-0 | - |
| 20. | Mass-Boston | 3-0-0 | - |
| 21. | Carnegie Mellon (Pa.) | 2-0-0 | - |
| 22. | Macalester (Minn.) | 2-0-0 | - |
| 23. | Carthage (Wis.) | 3-0-0 | - |
| 24. | Whitworth (Wash.) | 1-0-0 | - |
| 25. | Wisconsin-Whitewater | 1-0-0 | - |
Others recieving votes: Tufts 140, Wheaton (Ill.) 125, Montclair State 122, Washington U. 106, Eastern 104, Messiah 101, Cortland State 101, Dubuque 94, Washington and Lee 85, Scranton 80, Middlebury 78, York (Pa.) 75, Mary Washington 73, Lycoming 66, Oneonta State 64, DePauw 56, Bowdoin 56, Geneseo State 47, North Park 45, Concordia (Wis.) 42, Catholic 40, Connecticut College 35, Puget Sound 33, St. Mary's (Md.) 28, Case Western Reserve 26, Rochester 24, Trinity (Conn.) 24, Plattsburgh State 21, Salisbury 21, Colorado College 2, Stevens 2, St. Thomas 2