The Allen East boys golf team won a quadrangular Northwest Conference match at the Bluffton Golf Course Monday.
AE won the event with a score of 160, 11 strokes ahead of Bluffton in second (171). Leipsic finished third (189), while Ada was fourth (222).
Mustang Zach Miller won match medalist honors with a score of 33.
Senior Dexter Woods paced Ada with a nine-hole score of 49. Senior Drew Rush carded a round of 54. Sophomore Jack Baumgartner shot 58. Junior Geddes Klingler posted a 61 to round out the Ada scorers.
Bulldog senior Kamron Wilkerson shot a 65, and freshman Wyatt Ferguson added a 99.
Ada teenager Lily Baumgartner is set to compete at the national level for USA Swimming.
Lily has qualified for Team Ohio in the 100 butterfly event after swimming a time of 1:07.18 this past weekend in the Ohio Swimming Long Course Championships at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio.
Lily will now compete for the State of Ohio at the USA Central Zone Championships in Elkhart, Indiana August 6-8, 2021. This is the highest level of competition for USA Swimming competitors age 14-and-under.
In order to qualify for this level of competition, swimmers must meet or best a national AAA motivational time in each event.
The Ada swim team finished fifth overall in the combined boys/girls standings at the 39th annual Elks Invitational Western Ohio Aquatics League championship meet July 9-10 in Kenton.
The Ada boys came home a solid fourth, while the Alligator girls ended up sixth in the eight-team event.
Bluffton swept the boys, girls and combined team titles at the annual event.
Carlie Oldfield (girls 15-18), Kyleigh Nau (girls 6 and under), Chloe Kemmere (girls 11-12), Lily Baumgartner (girls 13-14) and Eli Esguerra (boys 11-12) each won one individual race for Ada in their respective age brackets.
By Cort Reynolds
More than 450 swimmers and their families will descend on Kenton July 9-10 for the 39th annual Elks Invitational Swim Meet and Western Ohio Aquatics League championship.
The WOAL is for swimmers aged four to 18 who are members of one of the league’s teams.
The Kenton Municipal Swimming pool is the site for the 2021 Swim Championships and will host eight teams from Ada, Bluffton, Findlay, Kenton, Shawnee Country Club, Wapakoneta, Westside and Van Wert. Teams will compete for the 2021 league title.