By Cort Reynolds
LIMA - The Ada wrestling team finished tied for ninth at the 18-team Lima Senior Spartan Invitational Saturday.
Senior Chase Sumner posted the top Bulldog finish by coming in third in the 145 lb. division. He lost to eventual bracket champ Collin Mell, a senior from Bath, in the semifinals.
But Sumner bounced back to take the third-place match over senior Casey Lawrence of Little Miami at 2:51 by pin.
Bulldog freshman Colton Biederman (106) and senior Xander White (182) took fifth place in their divisions. Senior Ada Bailey (285) and freshman Cameron Bober (138) took sixth in their brackets.
Little Miami won the team crown with 306.5 points, while Ada tied with Greenville (76) for ninth.
Ada placers/bracket champs (event record in parentheses):
106 lbs.:
1st Bryce Maynard Eastwood
5th Colton Biederman Ada (3-2)
5th-place match: Biederman pin Dillen Mangus (Woodmore) 2:06
138:
1st Jacob Hahn Eastwood
6th Cameron Bober Ada (2-3)
5th-place match: Jordan Weidenhamer (Paulding) pin Bober 2:45
145:
1st Collin Mell Bath
3rd Chase Sumner Ada (4-1)
3rd-place match: Sumner pin Casey Lawrence (Little Miami) 2:51
160:
1st Naheem Russell Lima Senior
7th Carson Hissong Ada (2-3)
7th-place match: Hissong pin Auston McChesney (St. Marys) 1:37
182:
1st Deontae Davis Cory-Rawson
5th Xander White Ada (2-1)
5th-place match: White pin Collin Streuer (Little Miami) 2:59
285:
1st Michael Magill Little Miami
6th Adam Bailey Ada (3-2)
5th-place match: Nicholas Myers (St. Marys) pin Bailey 3:08
Team standings
1) Little Miami 306.5 points
2) Eastwood 213
3) St. Marys 147
4) Wauseon 146.5
5) tie: Van Buren & Paulding 130
7) Bath 124
8) Cory-Rawson 118.5
9) tie: Ada & Greenville 76
11) Spencerville 69
12) Sidney-Lehman Catholic 57.5
13) Woodmore 56
14) tie: Rogers & Lima Senior 40
16) Lincolnview 15
17) tie: Mechanicsburg & Liberty-Benton 0
Next weekend, Ada competes at the Van Buren Invitational January 19-20.
