SPENCERVILLE - The Ada boys cross country team finished fifth in the six-team Northwest Conference championship meet at Spencerville Saturday morning
Columbus Grove unseated defending league champion Lincolnview, winning the closely-contested boys team title by a score of 30 points to 33. Ada was fifth with 135 points, while Allen East was last with 157.
Ada senior Miguel Jordan finished 12th in the 87-runner field with a time of 17:58.2 to post the top purple and gold showing.
Bulldog sophomore Jacob Morgan ended up 38th with a time of 19:59.6.
WILMINGTON — The Ohio Northern women's cross country team finished fifth of 35 teams at the Wilmington Jenna Strong Invitational on Friday afternoon at the Wilmington Cross Country Course.
The Polar Bears (67-17 overall) finished first of the 13 NCAA Division III schools. ONU also defeated all 15 of the NCAA Division II and NAIA schools.
NCAA Division I schools finished in the top four places, with Ball State edging Northern Kentucky for the team title.
WILMINGTON— Senior All-American Ian McVey won his fourth race of the season, leading the Ohio Northern men's cross country team to a fourth place finish at the Wilmington Jenna Strong Invitational on Friday afternoon at the Wilmington Cross Country Course.
The Polar Bears (63-18 overall) finished with 131 points to place fourth of 34 teams.
ONU fell only to Miami (Ohio), Shawnee State and Northern Kentucky, who finished 1-2-3.
Northern was first of the eleven NCAA Division III schools.
FINDLAY — The Ohio Northern men's golf team wrapped up its 2018-19 fall schedule with a fifth place finish at the Defiance Fall Invitational on Friday at Red Hawk Run Golf Course.
The Polar Bears ended 10-24 overall finishing fifth of five teams.
Senior Joshua Turich and freshman Nolan Kimberly led ONU with 80s, tying for 14th place out of 41 golfers.
Officers of the Ada Police Department will be on hand for Coffee with a Cop on Tuesday. They will be at McDonald’s from 8-10 a.m. on Oct. 16 to give community members an opportunity to ask questions and voice concerns as they work to make Ada a S.A.F.E.R. place to live. And, the coffee is free.
Goodbye blue totes, hello increase in the trash bill. Within the next few weeks, the blue trash and recycle totes of Republic will be replaced by totes from Wright Refuse in Lima since Wright was the lowest bidder on trash pickup for the next three years. The water/sewer/trash bill will increase with the December billing. The trash portion of the bill has been $14 a month. It will now be $17.25.
