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ONU winter sports teams have winning weekend

Swimming and diving, track and field, basketball, wrestling
Posted by Fred Steiner on Sunday, February 7, 2021

Ohio Northern University winter sports teams had a winning weekend. Here are summaries of those team's events.

WRESTLING
ADA — The Ohio Northern wresting team wrapped up its abbreviated 2021 season with a 30-13 victory over Otterbein on Sunday afternoon at the ONU Sports Center Fieldhouse.

The Polar Bears finish with a 3-1 overall record and a 3-1 mark in the Ohio Athletic Conference, while the Cardinals end their season 1-3, 1-3.

Ohio Northern also celebrated Senior Day on Sunday and honored its graduating senior Rhett Roeder(Monroeville).

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Lady Bulldogs downed by Bearcats

Bulldog sophomore lead guard Courtney Sumner topped all players with 23 points
Posted by Fred Steiner on Friday, February 5, 2021

By Cort Reynolds
SPENCERVILLE - Visiting Ada fell behind early and lost 76-40 to Spencerville in a Northwest Conference girls basketball contest Thursday evening.

The Lady Bearcats ran out to a 21-11 lead after the opening period as Emma Leis pumped in 11 points. The hosts extended their lead to 38-21 at intermission as Leis added seven more markers. 

Spencerville put the game well out of reach with a 20-7 third stanza that gave the black and red a 58-28 margin heading to the final quarter.

Ada had its best period in the fourth stanza, losing 18-12.

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Tigers claw Ada boys

Spencerville next on Bulldog's schedule
Posted by Fred Steiner on Thursday, February 4, 2021

By Cort Reynolds
ADA - Visiting Waynesfield-Goshen built an 18-point second half lead and held off an Ada rally to win a non-conference boys basketball makeup contest 45-35 Wednesday night.

W-G broke open a 26-17 halftime lead with a 9-0 run to start the second half. Ada managed to slice the deficit to 41-35 with 2:19 remaining to play, but could get no closer.

The Bulldogs dropped to 2-13 overall with the defeat. W-G improved to 3-12     with the win. 

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DIII winter championships canceled

Posted by Fred Steiner on Thursday, February 4, 2021

The NCAA has announced that it will be canceling all of its Division III winter championships events for the 2020-21 academic year.

In its release, the NCAA cited low participation numbers for its member schools as the reason for the cancelation of men's and women's basketball, men's and women's swimming and diving, men's and women's indoor track and field, men's and women's ice hockey, and wrestling championships events.

The Ohio Athletic Conference is still planning on hosting its regularly scheduled championship events for the winter sports.

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You must watch this video!

Posted by Fred Steiner on Thursday, February 4, 2021

Here's a brief video posted on Ada Bulldogs Facebook. Click the link to get on the Facebook site and then scroll down to the video: https://www.facebook.com/adabulldogs/

You'll see a buzzer beater by Zack Zimmerman, Ada 7th grader, playing at Paulding.

He hit a shot longer than half court going into halftime to set the pace for Ada's second half. Going into halftime, down 7 to 19, Ada scored 15 of their 30 points in the fourth quarter in a 3-29 win.

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2 ONU student athletes receive OAC honors

Posted by Fred Steiner on Wednesday, February 3, 2021

Two ONU student athletes received OAC athlete of the week honors for Jan. 25-31.

Freshman Keegan Digby (Bowling Green/Otsego) was named the Ohio Athletic Conference Men's Field Athlete of the Week.

Digby won the weight throw and the shot put to help the Polar Bears (5-1) win the annual Joe Banks Invitational on Saturday at the ONU Sports Center.

He won the weight throw with a toss of 15.09 meters and won the shot put with a heave of 14.17 meters in just his second intercollegiate competition.

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