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Update on who is playing who at ONU this weekend

Posted by Fred Steiner on Friday, February 19, 2021

The Ohio Northern men's and women's basketball teams have had schedule changes for this weekend's games.

Due to COVID-19 protocol issues with the Capital men's basketball team, the Polar Bear men's team will now have a hone-and-home series with Heidelberg.

ONU and HU will play at the ONU Sports Center on Friday at 7 pm and will play at Sieberling Gymnasium on Saturday at 6 pm.

To accommodate the men's home game on Friday, the Ohio Northern women will swap game sites with Capital this weekend, now playing at Capital on Friday at 7 pm and at home at the ONU Sports Center at 6 pm on Saturday.

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Girls season ends at Marion Local

Lady Bulldogs finished their season with a 5-15 record
Posted by Fred Steiner on Friday, February 19, 2021

By Cort Reynolds
MARIA STEIN - Host Marion Local powered its way to a big early lead and convincingly defeated Ada 57-29 in Div. IV first round sectional girls basketball play Thursday evening.

Third-seeded ML led 8-0 and built an 18-4 advantage after one period of play. The Flyers stretched the margin to 34-10 by halftime, led by 33 points at the three-quarter mark, and were never threatened.

Ada kept hustling and won the fourth quarter, 9-4.

Three ML girls tallied double figures as nine of the 15 Flyers who saw action scored in their balanced attack. 

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ONU's Buderer OAC men's track athlete of the week

Posted by Fred Steiner on Wednesday, February 17, 2021

Junior Andrew Buderer (Oak Harbor) was named the Ohio Athletic Conference Men's Field Athlete of the Week for the week of Feb. 8-14.

Buderer won the pole vault to help the Polar Bears (15-3) to a second place finish at the OAC Elite Meet on Sunday at Otterbein and Capital.

He won the pole vault by clearing 4.70 meters to remain undefeated on the season with victories in all four meets this winter.

The Polar Bears will return to action on Sunday with a tri-meet at Capital with Wilmington.

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Ada boys nipped by late Paulding rush

Cook scored a game-high 19 points on the strength of 5 trifectas, and also dished out 5 assists. 
Posted by Fred Steiner on Tuesday, February 16, 2021

By Cort Reynolds
ADA - Homestanding Ada led for much of the game but a late 16-8 run lifted Paulding to a 52-48 comeback win in Northwest Conference boys basketball makeup game action Saturday night.

Senior guard Blake McGarvey nailed seven consecutive free throws and scored the last eight Panther points over the final 4:04 to help the Panthers stave off upset-minded Ada.

"I don't want to celebrate a moral victory but we responded well to a poor performance the night before that ended badly," said Ada head coach Jon Cook. "We fought like crazy, and for the first 27 minutes out of 32 I thought we were the better team.

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Bulldog Oldfield wins 2 sectional races; Cole wins 1

Four Ada girl swimmers make it to BG district
Posted by Fred Steiner on Monday, February 15, 2021

By Cort Reynolds
LIMA - The Ada varsity swim teams competed in flight two of the Div. II sectionals at the Lima YMCA natatorium Saturday.

Three Lady Bulldog individuals and one relay squad qualified for the district meet Friday evening at Bowling Green State University.    

"Weíre really happy with how everybody swam," noted Ada first-year head coach Katey Stuart. "We had some great time drops from the beginning of the season, and quite a few personal-best times." 

Sophomore Carlie Oldfield won the 50-yard freestyle and 100 backstroke races to pace the Lady Bulldogs. 

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Ada grapplers wrestle at VB Duals

Clayton McClain goes 5-0
Posted by Fred Steiner on Monday, February 15, 2021

By Cort Reynolds
VAN BUREN - The Ada varsity wrestling team competed in the Van Buren Duals event Saturday.

Bryan, Ashland Crestview, Shawnee, Cory-Rawson, Riverdale, Ada and North Baltimore also participated in the event. 

Ada individual records:
Clayton McClain 5-0
Colton Biederman 4-1
Antonio Pettit 2-2
Cameron Bober 3-2
Kyle Mattson 1-4 
Jonathan McClain 2-3

"We wrestled solid, and it was great to get back onto the mat after coming out of a two-week hiatus because of quarantine," said Bulldog head coach David Ames. 

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