The Ohio Northern baseball wrapped up their Spring Break trip with a 1-0, 6-2 double header sweep of Monmouth (Ill.) 1-0 Saturday in the Gene Cusic Classic at the Player Development Complex.
The Polar Bears move to 7-1, while the Scots are 0-2.
Freshman Braydon Focht hit a sac fly with one out in the bottom of the sixth to score senior Jack LaMarca and break a scoreless tie to record the game's only run.
Junior Nick Eltzroth (2-0) threw 6.2 scoreless innings to earn the win and freshman
Freshman Zach Foster got the final out to record his first career save.
Sandy Turner holds a bunch of multi-colored tulips at Carol Slane Florist in Ada. Thinking spring? The tulips were not grown in the backyard in Ada but spring blooms are flourishing somewhere. Next week the local florist will have spring flowers in pots...think daffodils, crocus, tulips, hyacinths and more...a welcome sight.
Laurie Laird, owner of New Leaf Garden Center, holds pots of shamrock plants to sell for St. Patrick's Day, March 17. She is surrounded by spring bulb plants, a reminder of the next season, at long last.
ReStore will begin providing free community lunches on Monday, March 9. Serving will be from noon to 1 p.m. on Mondays, Wednesdays, Thursdays and Fridays.
The free lunch has been offered sporadically the past two months, but now will be available on a regular basis. Crock Pot Tuesday will continue, as before, with serving from 4 to 6 p.m.
David Retterer, Ada mayor, has called a special meeting of the Ada council for Tuesday, March 10, at 6:30 p.m. in council chambers, with the purposes of considering a resolution and a pay ordinance.
