The Ada baseball program is interested in expanding by forming a junior high club team for seventh and eighth graders, according to Jason Campbell, Ada High School head baseball coach.
"Club baseball is played during the school year against area seventh and eighth grade teams. This does not replace the Ada Pony League summer baseball program,' said Campbell.
"We intentionally do not overlap the schedules of these programs, so they can work together to provide the players the opportunity to play more games," he said.
A parent meeting is planned at 8 p.m., Thursday, Feb. 28, in the small gym, next to the varsity basketball gym, in the school administration building.
The Ohio Northern women's basketball team moved up to No. 3 in the D3hoops.com poll and remained No. 3 in the USA Today Sports Division III Top 25 Coaches poll.
The Polar Bears received 555 points in the D3hoops.com poll, which was 18 more than they received in last weeks poll.
DePauw (Ind.) stayed at the top of the poll with 621 points and 22 of the 25 first place votes and Hope (Mich) is ranked second with 595 points and the three remaining first place votes.
Five Ohio Northern wrestlers earned All-Ohio Athletic Conference honors and ONU swept the three special awards for 2012-13 in voting conducted by the league's six head coaches.
Senior three-time All-American and defending national champion Kyle Kwiat was named the John Summa OAC Wrestler of the Year and sophomore Cody Lovejoy won the Most Falls in the Least Amount of Time award.
Head coach Ron Beaschler was named the OAC Coach of the Year for the second straight season and for the third time in his 25-year career.
No. 3-ranked Ohio Northern will face Hanover (Ind.) on Friday in the First Round of the NCAA Division III Women's Basketball Tournament Friday in Holland, Mich.
With a win, ONU would either face No. 2-ranked Hope (Mich.) or Wheaton (Ill.) on Saturday in the Second Round.
Times for all three games will be announced later this week.
The Polar Bears (26-1) have won 25 consecutive games and received an automatic bid to the NCAA Tournament by winning the Ohio Athletic Conference Tournament title under 12th-year head coach Michale Durand.
Hanover won the Heartland Collegiate Athletic Conference crown and boasts a 21-7 record.
Ali Hess has been named an assistant softball coach at Ohio Northern.
Hess comes to ONU after a three-year stint as an assistant coach at the University of Detroit Mercy, where she coached pitchers and catchers.
The Omaha, Neb., native was a four-year letterwinner as a catcher at the University of Toledo from 2006-09.
Hess owns several Toledo records, including career fielding percentage, career hit by pitch, single season hit by pitch and 1st for single season fielding percentage.
She is also tied for 6th in career homeruns and is third for single season slugging percentage.
No. 3-ranked Ohio Northern advanced into the finals of the 2013 Ohio Athletic Conference Women's Basketball Tournament with a 60-37 victory over Wilmington in the Third Round on Thursday night at the ONU Sports Center.
The top-seeded Polar Bears advance to the finals with a 25-1 record, while the fourth-seeded Quakers end their season with a 15-12 record.
ONU runs its school record winning streak to 24 games and has now won 16 consecutive games by 10 points or more.
Northern will host second-seeded Otterbein in the finals on Saturday night at 7:30 pm at the ONU Sports Center.
