By Cort Reynolds
SPENCERVILLE - The Ada boys and girls track and field teams competed at the annual eight-team Spencerville Bearcat Relays meet last Friday.
Marion Local and host Spencerville tied for the girls team title with 84 points apiece. Columbus Grove was a close third with 78 points. Ada finished eighth with 19 points.
Columbus Grove tallied 134 points to win the boys crown. ML was second with 106, while Ada came in seventh with 15 points.
Top Ada finishers:
Girls 4x400 Meter Relay
3rd Ada 4:30.82
1) Olivia Burkhart 9 2) Courtney Sumner 10
3) Olivia Green 11 4) Brenna Hissong 12
By Cort Reynolds
ADA - Host Ada swept Arlington in a non-league softball doubleheader Saturday as senior hurler Leona Dalton picked up both wins with strong pitching.
The Lady Bulldogs improved to 4-2 overall with the pair of convincing victories. Arlington fell to 0-3 with the defeats.
Dalton struck out 16 Lady Red Devils in the opener and held the visitors without a hit in a run-rule shortened, five-inning 10-0 victory.
Utilizing pinpoint control, she also did not walk a batter.
WESTERVILLE — The Ohio Northern women's soccer team drew 0-0 against Otterbein Thursday night at Memorial Stadium.
After the tie 110 minutes of play, both the Polar Bears and Cardinals move to 7-0-1 overall and 7-0-1 in the Ohio Athletic Conference.
Junior Kristy Catrine (Springboro) recorded ten saves in her seventh shutout in goal. She ran her scoreless streak to a school-record 733 minutes this season and 736 minutes in her career.
Otterbein recorded their fifth consecutive shutout of the season.
The Cardinals out-shot the Polar Bears 22-10 and held a 5-2 advantage in corner kicks.
LIMA - The Ada tennis team whitewashed Wapakoneta 5-0 indoors at the Westwood Tennis and Fitness Club Thursday night.
The match was moved from the outdoor Ada park courts to indoors at Lima due to expected high winds and rain.
The Bulldog netters evened their record at 2-2 after their second consecutive victory. Ada won the match without dropping a set, including two forfeits.
"The players enjoyed playing in the wind-free indoor courts at Westwood," said Ada head coach Dexter Woods. "The match featured many exciting points and good effort from both sides.
Ohio Northern junior and Ada High School volleyball standout Melina Woods was named the Sports Imports/AVCA Division III Woman Player of the Week for the week of April 1-7.
Woods hit .441 with 56 kills and only five errors as the Polar Bears went 3-1 last week with a sweep of Capital and a split at then-No. 12 Otterbein.
Woods is the 12th Ohio Northern player to be named the Sports Imports/AVCA Player of the Week and the first since Liz Schnelle, who was a five-time Sports Imports/AVCA Player of the Week honoree.
The Polar Bears finished their season with a 13-3 record under first-year head coach Katie Kuhn.
After a nationwide search, the Ohio Athletic Conference (OAC) has named Sarah Otey as its next conference commissioner. She will start her new post in June.
Otey, who currently serves as a director of academic and membership affairs at the NCAA, replaces Tim Gleason, who is retiring after 30 years leading the OAC at the end of June. She is only the second fulltime commissioner in the history of the conference and the first woman to hold the post.
