Reviewed by Robert McCool
How about a little romance for Feb. 14th?
In #1 New York Times Bestselling Author Jodi Picoult’s latest novel, the book of two ways (Ballentine Books, Isbn 978-1-4328-8334-8), romance is the background to a splendid tutorial on Egyptology, tombs, and hieroglyphics. With four pages of reference materials at the finish you can immerse yourself in a time far past knowing the details of that time are accurate and made simple for us to understand.
By Cort Reynolds
ADA - Spencerville senior Keegan Goecke banked in a short shot with just under three seconds left to give the Bearcats an extremely hard-fought 37-36 victory at upset-minded Ada Friday night.
Ada clung to a small advantage for most of the Northwest Conference boys basketball battle. But the Bearcats rallied to seize a 32-30 lead with 4:04 remaining after Dylan Smith calmly drained two free throws.
Goecke's layup off an in-bounds pass gave the visitors a 34-31 edge with three minutes left. A free throw by Josh Henline moments later provided the Bearcats with their biggest lead at 35-31.
By Cort Reynolds
ADA - The Ada girls basketball team was seeded 10th out of 13 teams at the Div. IV super sectional drawing held by conference call recently.
Minster was voted the number one seed, with New Knoxville tabbed second by the coaches.
The Lady Bulldog cagers (4-13) will visit third-seeded Midwest Athletic Conference power Marion Local (16-4) Thursday, February 18 at 7 p.m.
The Ada/ML winner takes on sixth seed Parkway (8-10) at the home of the higher seed Saturday, February 20 at 7 p.m. Parkway received a first round bye after the higher-seeded Flyers declined it.
By Cort Reynolds
ADA - The Ada boys basketball team was seeded 13th out of 14 teams at the Wapakoneta Div. IV sectional/district drawings held Sunday.
The Bulldog boys (2-14) will travel to New Bremen (12-6) to take on the fourth seed Cardinals Wednesday, February 24. Tip-off is set for 7 p.m.
NB is 5-2 in the rugged Midwest Athletic Conference.
"It will be a very difficult (draw)," said Ada head coach Jon Cook. "It was kind of a six or one half dozen of the other kind of thing," he said in reference to which MAC power to play.
