Coach Campbell: Our young team learned how to compete
Posted by Staff on Friday, May 27, 2022
By Cort Reynolds
The Ada High School varsity baseball team recently handed out its 2022 post-season awards.
The special award winners are:
Captain's award - Kadin Phipps and Tyler Jameson
Pitcher of the Year - Kadin Phipps
Offensive Player of the Year - Roman Snyder
Rookie of the Year - Levi Green
Bulldog award - Tyler Jameson
"The 2022 season was a season of big ups and downs," said veteran Ada head coach Jason Campbell. "This was a young team, and we learned how to compete.
CORRECTION: The original version of this article did not include information about Julian Grose qualifying for regionals in the 300 hurdles.
By Cort Reynolds
The Ada High School track and field teams hosted the Div. III district meet on warm days Thursday, May 19, and Saturday, May 21, at War Memorial Stadium.
The Ada girls finished 10th of 18 teams, while the Bulldog boys ended up 12th out of 15 squads.
Columbus Grove won the boys team title with Bluffton coming in second. Kalida captured the girls crown in a close battle with Van Buren.
Ada freshman standout Jenna Bassitt was voted first team All-Northwest Conference in softball at the league meeting by the coaches in Delphos Monday evening, May 16.
Leadoff hitter Bassitt led Ada in batting average (.519). She also topped the team in on-base percentage (.576), runs scored (19), stolen bases (15) and hits (27). She added five doubles, two triples and one home run.
Bassitt won all five games pitching that Ada (5-14, 2-6 NWC) captured. She also led the team in strikeouts, innings pitched and complete games.
The Ada Soccer Association issued a reminder that there are U12 and U15 tournament games at Bluffton University on May 20 and 21:
"All of our teams in those ages have had good seasons and could potentially do very well at the tournament. Support from the Ada fans would be appreciated. As of right now, these are the games [we] know about:
The Ada High School baseball team stayed close to visiting league rival Spencerville for six innings of a pitcher's duel before falling 6-1 in Div. IV sectional first round action on Tuesday evening, May 17, at Ada War Memorial Park.
Spencerville led 3-1 after the first inning, but then both pitchers bore down and pitched shutout ball over the next five frames.
The Bearcats broke through to tack on three more insurance runs in the top of the seventh.
The young Ada High School varsity softball team scrapped hard but lost a tight 3-1 pitcher's duel at local rival Allen East in the Northwest Conference season finale on a warm Monday evening, May 16, at Harrod.
The Lady Bulldogs fell to 5-14 overall and finished 2-6 in the NWC with the closedefeat.
The Mustang girls improved to 10-11 overall and 3-5 in the NWC with the win to finish a game ahead of Ada in the league standings.
"Errors hurt us again, but we were in the ball game at the end," said Bulldog first-year head coach Jeff Bassitt.