FINDLAY – The visiting Ada High School softball team lost 7-3 to Liberty-Benton in their inaugural Blanchard Valley Conference opener on a wet Wednesday, April 2.
The scheduled home game was moved from Ada to L-B since the Eagles have a synthetic turf surface.
“We need to get back to doing the small things,” said fourth-year Ada head coach Jeff Bassitt. “We made good contact but couldn’t get anything in the gaps.
“You can’t make seven errors and beat a good team,” he noted.
The Bulldogs were out-hit 10-5 and committed seven costly errors.
FINDLAY – The visiting Ada High School baseball team was no-hit in a shortened 15-0 loss at Liberty-Benton in the Blanchard Valley Conference opener on Wednesday evening, April 2.
The game was scheduled to be at Ada, but was moved to L-B due to wet field conditions. The Eagles have a synthetic turf surface.
L-B authored a 10-run second inning to put the game out of reach early.
The Bulldogs were out-hit 10-0 in the five-inning contest shortened by the 10-run mercy rule.
Ada fell to 1-2 overall and 0-1 in the BVC after the defeat. L-B improved to 3-0 overall and 1-0 in BVC play with the win.
Marlene A. Kindle, age 90, of Lima, passed away on Wednesday, April 2, 2025 at Mercy Health-St. Rita’s Medical Center, Lima.
She was born on August 21, 1934 in Bluffton, Ohio to the late Clarence and Mildred (Zahrend) Gleason. Marlene married Lester Kindle on June 25, 1954 and he preceded her in death on April 6, 1980.
At noon on Monday, March 31, the keys and ownership of Keith's Hardware officially passed from Keith and Kathy Wire to Jason and Ursula Minich. The two local families, Century 21 Real Estate and Quest Federal Credit Union gathered on a day when the store closed for this purpose.
The Wires purchased Baker’s Hardware 45 years ago and first operated from rented space on Main St. They changed the name to Keith’s Hardware in 1986 and built the 106 S Johnson St store when part of their space was sold in 1989.
