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Bulldogs sweep track quadrangular

By Cort Reynolds

The Ada High School boys and girls track and field teams each won a four-team home meet at War Memorial Stadium Tuesday evening, April 12.

The Lady Bulldogs easily out-pointed North Baltimore (95-43) to win the girls event. The Ada boys edged local rival Allen East (99.5-89) to capture first place.

Ada sophomore distance ace Josie Phillips won both the 1600 and 3200-meter runs to pace the victorious Bulldog girls.

 

Top Ada finishers:

Boys 4x800 Meter Relay

1 Ada A 10:04.14 

1) Sloan, Brady 2) Beckwith, Aedyn

3) Hunsicker, Brayden 4) Selover, Mason

 

Apply by April 14 for Ada Junior Track Meet

May 1 is the 2nd annual Ada Junior Track Meet. All students in grades K-6 are encouraged to participate. Medals will be awarded to top places and every student will get a t-shirt.

The registration form is attached to this story and additional copies are available in the elementary office.

Reed named d3wrestle.com Freshman of the Year.

ONU freshman Jacob Reed (Canal Winchester/Lancaster) has been named the 2022 d3wrestle.com Freshman of the Year.

Reed (43-5) placed third in the 141-pound weight class at the 2002 NCAA Division III Wrestling Championships and was the highest finishing freshman in the tournament.

He is ONU's 19th All-American and his third place finish is the best in school history by a freshman, surpassing the fourth place finish by two-time national champion Kyle Kwiat in 2010.

The Polar Bears went 13-5 overall and were third in the Ohio Athletic Conference with a 4-2 record under 32nd-year head coach Ron Beaschler.

Neal Young hired as new ONU basketball coach

Neal Young has been named the head men's basketball coach at Ohio Northern. Young comes to ONU after winning three USA South titles in five seasons as head coach at Covenant (Ga.) College.

"I would like to thank Dr. DiBiasio and Tom Simmons as well as the rest of the hiring committee for this incredible opportunity," Young said. "My family and I are excited to get to Ada and begin the process of integrating ourselves into this community and investing in Polar Bear basketball."

He guided the Scots to a 79-47 record (a winning percentage of .627) and USA South titles in 2019, 2020 and 2022.

Baseball tallies 18 hits in loss at Bluffton

The Ohio Northern baseball team tallied 18 hits Thursday evening but fell 24-9 to Bluffton at Memorial Field.

The Polar Bears drop to 11-11 overall on the season while the Beavers improve to 9-11.

Junior Jacob Wenning (Coldwater) paced the ONU offense with four hits and two RBIs.

Junior Vinny Sclafani (Oak Brook, Ill./Hinsdale Central) and freshmen Sam Sells (Columbus/Olentangy Orange) and Ethan Spears (Oregon/Clay) added two hits each.

Bulldog baseball blanked by state-ranked Lancers

By Cort Reynolds

The Ada High School baseball team lost 10-0 to defending league champion Lincolnview in the Northwest Conference opener Thursday, April 7, on a windy, cool evening at Ada’s War Memorial Park.

Lancer hurler Dane Ebel pitched a five-inning no-hitter and slugged a three-run home run over the right-center field fence to pace the victors.

The Bulldogs fell to 2-3 overall and 0-1 in the NWC with the defeat. Defending NWC champion Lincolnview improved to 2-3 and 1-0 in league play. 

The game was scheduled to be played at Lincolnview but was moved to Ada due to wet fields.

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