April 2022

By Cort Reynolds

The Ada High School track and field teams both put together solid showings at the annual 11-team Hardin Northern Invitational meet Saturday April 23 in Dola.

Leipsic won the boys team title with 120 points, while Ada came in fourth with 80. Riverdale captured the girls team crown with 147.5 points, and the Bulldog girls finished fourth with 66.

Julian Grose won the boys 300 meter hurdles race to post the top Bulldog finish.

Top Ada finishers:

BOYS Varsity 300m Hurdles

1 GROSE, JULIAN M 10 Ada 43.46

3 BROWN, JACKSON M 10 Ada 46.07

GIRLS Varsity 4x400m Relay

By Mike Patrick, MD, Medical Director for Interactive Media, Nationwide Children’s Hospital

The year was 1846. Dr. Ignaz Semmelweis was working in the Vienna General Hospital when he noticed a perplexing problem. Women giving birth in the doctor-run maternity ward developed fever and died more often than women in the midwife-run maternity ward. Doctors tended to visit their wards after performing autopsies, while the midwives did not. Dr. Semmelweis wondered if “cadaverous particles” might remain on their hands. He imposed a new rule, urging doctors to wash their hands before entering the ward. Sure enough, fever and death in the doctor-run ward decreased significantly.

By Cort Reynolds

The visiting Ada High Schoolbaseball team gave up a run in the bottom of the seventh to lose a 6-5 nailbiter to Arlington in a non-league battle Friday evening, April 22.

Ada dropped to 4-8 overall with the close loss. Arlington improved to 5-7 with the comeback win.

The Bulldogs tied it with two runs in the top of the third, and again knotted the score with a run in the fourth. Ada took a 5-4 lead with single runs in the fifth and sixth frames.

Arlington tied it again with a run in the home half of the sixth. They then won it by plating a run in the bottom of the seventh in their last at bat.

The Cube Ice Arena in Findlay, Ohio will host the Hockey Helping Heroes initiative of the First Responder Face-Off Foundation to town on Friday, May 6. The event features a charity hockey game between the FOP 109 Warthogs vs. the Toledo Police Hockey team. Proceeds from the game benefit the family of Officer Dominic Francis of the Bluffton Police Department. Officer Francis was killed in the line of duty March 31, 2022 and was a member of the Fort Findlay FOP Lodge #20.