By Cort Reynolds
BATH - Fourth seed New Knoxville defeated Ada 55-14 in Div. IV first round sectional girls basketball play Wednesday evening at Bath.
With the loss, the 10th-seeded Lady Bulldogs finished their campaign 7-16 overall, a six-game improvement over last season. Meanwhile, NK improved to 16-7 with the convincing win.
The Rangers advance to the sectional finals Saturday, Feb. 22 at Bath vs. Midwest Athletic Conference foe New Bremen (14-9). The Rangers won their previous league meeting in a defensive battle, 34-26.
Stephanie Frazier recently took photos of Ada junior high girls' basketball teams playing Lincolnview. She shares these photos of future Ada varsity players with Icon viewers.
With the game tied and two seconds to play, senior Abby Weeks (West Chester/Mount Notre Dame) split a pair of free throws to lift the Ohio Northern women's basketball team over No. 20-ranked John Carroll, 59-58, inside the Decarlo Center on Saturday afternoon.
The Polar Bears (17-6 overall, 11-5 Ohio Athletic Conference) completed its regular-season sweep of the Blue Streaks (19-4 overall, 13-3 OAC).
Northern was led by senior Emily Mescher (Maria Stein/Marion Local) posted her sixth career double-double, pouring in 16 points and grabbing 10 rebounds.
Ohio Northern seniors Mackenzie Wills (Ada HS grad) and Katie Curry (Oxford/Talawanda) were named Co-Ohio Athletic Conference Women's Tennis Players of the Week for the week of Feb. 10-16.
Wills and Curry each went 6-0 as the Polar Bears (5-2 overall) won two of three matches in Nicholasville, Ky.
ONU began the weekend with a 5-4 loss to host Transylvania (Ky.) before sweeping LaGrange (Ga.) and Roanoke (Va.) 9-0.
By Cort Reynolds
BOWLING GREEN - Ada senior Klava Katayama set a district record and almost all Bulldog swimmers set personal-best times in 10 events in the Div. II district meet held at Bowling Green State University Friday evening.
Four Ada individual swimmers competed in two events apiece, and two girls relay squads also participated well at Bowling Green.
"Out of the 10 swims we had yesterday, almost every single one was a time improvement," noted Ada head coach Stephanie Steiner-McMahon.
Lady Bulldog standout Katayama made it to the state championships for the fourth straight season with two strong performances.
By Cort Reynolds
LIMA - Visiting Ada raced to a huge early lead and rolled past Lima Temple Christian 89-50 in non-conference boys basketball play Saturday night.
The Bulldogs built a 24-4 lead after the first period, and stretched the margin to 45-19 by halftime. Ada won the second half 44-31 to post their highest-scoring game of the season as 11 players scored.
"Early on we were able to force them into some turnovers and get the tempo where we wanted it," said Bulldog fourth-year head coach Dre White. "We shared the basketball and got the shots we wanted.
