By Tim Glon

ADA — The Ohio Northern women’s golf team is ranked No. 19 nationally in the Golf World/NGCA preseason poll.

The Polar Bears were ranked No. 14 in the final 2008 poll last spring.

Northern received 83 points in the poll and joins Otterbein as the two Ohio Athletic Conference schools to appear in the poll.

ADA - Ohio Northern women's golf team will open the fall portion of its 2008-09 schedule Sept. 19 at the Trine (Ind.) Invitational under seventh-year head coach Stacey Hairston.

The Lady Polar Bears, who finished the 2007-08 season with a 101-19 record and a No. 14 national ranking, will also host the fifth annual ONU Fall Invitational on Sept. 21 at Colonial Golfers Club.

Northern is slated to play seven rounds this fall, capped by the 36-hole Wittenberg Invitational on Oct. 11-12.

WAVERLY, IOWA - Ohio Northern senior Meagan Brennan fired a four-over par 76 in the final round of the NCAA Division III Women's Golf Championships at the Centennial Golf Club in Waverly, Iowa.

The senior from Mason, Ohio, started her round on the tenth hole and after a pair of bogies on the 12th and 13th hole's, Brennan carded her first birdie of the championships on the par-5 14th. She would finish her opening nine with a 3-over 39.