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Young Lady Bulldog cagers to continue rise

6 letter winners and 4 starters are back from a team that went 7-15
Posted by Fred Steiner on Tuesday, December 1, 2020

Story and photos by Cort Reynolds
ADA - Despite the pandemic and costly losses due to injuries, the 2020-21 Ada girls basketball team looks to continues its steady upward climb to increased competitiveness under third-year head coach Morgan Bass.

Six letter winners and four starters are back from a team that went 7-15 overall (0-8 in Northwest Conference) last season. Ada was markedly more competitive than the prior season, when they won one game. 

The team had no seniors on its roster last year, but lost two key players to injury before the first practice. 

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Bulldogs nipped in OT

Micah Cook cans 3 three-pointers
Posted by Fred Steiner on Tuesday, December 1, 2020

By Cort Reynolds
RIDGEWAY - The host Ridgemont boys basketball team edged spunky Hardin County rival Ada 59-58 in an overtime thriller Friday night in the season-opener.

Ada trailed 20-10 after one period of play. But the Bulldogs whittled the deficit to 28-24 by halftime as junior Cayden Murphy netted seven points in the second stanza. 

Ridgemont forged in front 46-39 heading to the fourth period behind 10 points from Landon Newland in the third period. Yet Ada rallied with a 15-8 closing run as Micah Cook and Jacob Poling each scored five points, and Tristan Conley added a three-pointer.

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Musketeers too much for Bulldogs

Posted by Fred Steiner on Tuesday, December 1, 2020

By Cort Reynolds
FT. JENNINGS - The visiting Ada boys basketball team lost 59-40 at hot-shooting Fort Jennings in a Saturday night non-league hoop contest.

The Bulldogs led 4-0 early, but then FJ reeled off the next 11 points to take control and never trailed again.

The Musketeers were on top 15-7 after one period and then pulled away to a 31-12 intermission advantage. FJ continued its fine shooting by outscoring the Bulldogs 17-4 in the third period. 

Ada found its shooting touch late as they out-pointed FJ 24-11 in the final stanza. The Bulldogs tallied 16 through the first three periods. 

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Ohio Athletic Conference announces winter schedules

Basketball • indoor track and field • wrestling • swimming and diving
Posted by Fred Steiner on Monday, November 30, 2020

The Ohio Athletic Conference has announced its league schedules for basketball, swimming and diving, indoor track and field and wrestling for the 2021 seasons.

Competition across all seven sports will begin the weekend of Jan. 22-23 and will be limited to conference-only opponents.

Conference championships for indoor track and field will be held at Otterbein with the women competing on Feb. 26 with the men following on Feb. 27.

The basketball tournaments will feature all 10 teams and will run from March 1-6 on campus sites.

The swimming and diving OAC Championships meet will be March 25-27 at Akron.

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Bulldog boy cagers rebuild under veteran coach

After 25 years Jon Cook returns to coach varsity bball
Posted by Fred Steiner on Monday, November 30, 2020

Story and photos by Cort Reynolds
ADA - Experienced former Ada head coach Jon Cook returns to the helm 25 years after he was first hired as a Bulldog coach in 2020-21 facing the difficult and perhaps unprecedented task of making the Bulldogs competitive despite several program defections and delays to practice due to the coronavirus pandemic. 

He replaces Dre White, who resigned roughly three weeks before practice was supposed to start in October after four seasons of rebuilding the Bulldog program back to respectability.

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National recognition to Scott Wills

Ranks 9th all-time in NCAA DIII women's tennis history with a winning percentage of 78.9
Posted by Fred Steiner on Monday, November 23, 2020

Ohio Northern head coach Scott Wills was recently honored as one of the nation's top NCAA Division III women's tennis coaches by the Intercollegiate Tennis Association.

Wills currently ranks ninth all-time in NCAA Division III women's tennis history with a winning percentage of 78.9. His 19-year career record of 381-102 puts him 19th all-time on the NCAA Division III women's tennis wins list.

He is only nine wins away from the Ohio Athletic Conference women's tennis record of 390 wins by Baldwin Wallace's Jack Bethanfalvy, who went 390-300 from 1985-2018.

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