NEW CONCORD — Senior Nate Burger (Dayton/Alter) and junior Ryan Bruns(Chickasaw/Marion Local) each posted double-doubles as the Ohio Northern men's basketball team rallied from a 17-point first half deficit to claim an 82-69 victory over Muskingum on Saturday afternoon.
The Polar Bears improve to 15-6 overall and remain in the hunt in the Ohio Athletic Conference as it improves its conference record to 10-4, while the Muskies drop to 8-13, 6-8.
SPENCERVILLE - Visiting Ada rallied to knock off Spencerville 48-45 in double overtime in Northwest Conference boys basketball action Friday night.
The purple and gold improve to 4-14 overall and 2-3 in the NWC with the victory, while the Bearcats fell to 2-13 and 1-4 with the defeat.
Ada outscored Spencerville 21-15 in the second half to tie the contest 38-38 at the end of regulation. Bearcat freshman Dalton Pritchard canned a difficult two-point basket to force a second extra session with the score knotted at 42-all.
Saturday The No. 27-ranked Ohio Northern men's track and field team will compete in its first home meet of the season as it hosts the annual Joe Banks Invitational at the ONU Sports Center Fieldhouse .
Northern fell five spots in the second weekly United States Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association power rankings to No. 27 .
The Joe Banks Invitational will kick off at 11 am with the men's long jump, pole vault and shot put .
Running events will begin at noon with the women's distance medley relay.
Ada will host the Northwest Conference wrestling championship meet for the first time ever Saturday, starting at 10 a.m.
Allen East is the defending NWC champion, having edged Bluffton 209-206
last year at Spencerville. Ada took fourth in the 2017 eight-team event
with 134.5 points.
Ada senior Chase Sumner won the 138 lb. title at the 2017 NWC meet, and
was named league Wrestler of the Year.
The event will be held in the 1971 varsity gym Saturday.
The Super Bowl is in Minneapolis - but a Saturday event, an Ada football drop, celebrates this community's connection to the larger world of sports.
The Saturday midnight football drop launches Super Bowl LII, in the hearts of Ada residents.
The second annual “Made in Ada Wilson Football Festival” on Saturday, Feb. 3, will celebrate the village of Ada’s connection to the biggest football game of the year.
Ada Rotarian Bob Ward, and his wife, Karen, may be in Florida right now but they haven't left Rotary behind. During a Rise Against Hunger event organized by a local Rotary group, they helped package 30,000 meals for children in Nicaragua with about 250 volunteers at the Fernandina Beach Rec Center. Bob, a retired engineering prof, sports an ONU t-shirt, while helping. Karen is active in civic and religious activities in Ada.
ADA - Visiting Spencerville used balanced scoring and a big first half to defeat Ada 68-39 in Northwest Conference girls basketball play Thursday night.
The Lady Bulldogs fell to 4-14 overall and 0-6 in conference play with a fifth straight defeat in their home finale. Meanwhile, the Lady Bearcats improved to 10-7 and remain tied for first in the NWC with the win at 5-1.
After a slow start for both teams, Spencerville rolled to an 18-4 lead en route to a 33-10 halftime bulge, and never was headed.
Phillip Barttels, 79, off Ada was taken by LifeFlight to St. Rita’s Hospital following an accident at SR 235 and 309 on Wednesday afternoon. The hospital staff labeled his condition as stable on Thursday evening.
The Sheriff’s department reported that Battels was driving a 2013 Ford Fusion north on SR 235 when the driver lost control, struck the guardrail of a bridge, began to roll, and landed in a nearby creek. Battels was extricated from the vehicle and flown to the Lima hospital.
The crash remains under investigation by the Sheriff’s Office.
