By Cort Reynolds
FINDLAY - Five Ada track and field athletes made it to regionals at the Div. III district meet hosted by Liberty-Benton in Findlay Thursday and Saturday.
Ada senior Noah Mattson took first in the shot put, and junior Nora Dellifield finished third in the pole vault to post the top Bulldog individual finishes for the males and females.
Mattson is on a quest to return to the state meet and finish higher on the final podium.
Ada senior Miguel Jordan moved up from eighth in the 800 meter preliminary heats Thursday to finish third Saturday, clinching a return to regionals.
Bulldog Alex Morgan finished a strong third in the 300 hurdles to make it to regionals.
Junior Philip Gautier also took third in the high jump to become the fifth Ada athlete to advance to the next round.
Sophomore Brenna Hissong just missed out on regionals by one place by finishing a solid fifth in the 400 meter finals Saturday.
The Bulldog boys 4x400 relay foursome of Morgan, Gautier, Michael Crouse and Jordan finished first in preliminary heats to qualify as top seed for the finals Saturday.
But they finished sixth in the finals to miss out on regionals.
Ada senior Anabel Alexander came in 15th in the 800 meter finals. She also ran the second leg for the Lady Bulldog 4x400 relay quartet, which finished eighth.
Host Liberty-Benton won the girls district team title, while Columbus Grove edged L-B out for the boys team crown.
The Ada boys finished 10th with 31 points, while the Lady Buldlogs scored 11 points to come in 13th.
A top four finals finish qualifies an athlete or relay team to regionals next week in Tiffin.
Top Ada girls individual finishes:
Pole Vault:
3rd Nora Dellifield 9-6
400 Meters:
5th Brenna Hissong 1:02.70
High Jump:
14th Anabel Alexander 4-4
800 Meters:
15th Anabel Alexander 2:41.29
Shot Put:
21st Kylie Shafer 28-.25
26th Kesewa Akyeampong 26-11
Discus:
26th Jasmine Leimgruber 70-10
26th Kylie Shafer 70-10
Top Ada boys individual finishes:
Shot Put:
1st Noah Mattson 51-.75
High Jump:
3rd Philip Gautier 6-1
300 Hurdles:
3rd Alex Morgan 41.86
800 Meters:
3rd Miguel Jordan 2:03.14
Discus Finals:
9th Noah Mattson 130-6
Ada Relays:
Boys 4x400 Relay:
Prelims - 1st Ada 3:30.71
Boys 4x400 Finals:
6th Ada 3:38.04
1) Alex Morgan 2) Philip Gautier
3) Michael Crouse 4) Miguel Jordan
Girls 4x400 Relay:
Prelims - 8th Ada 4:36.22
Girls 4x400 Finals - 8th Ada 4:39.26
1) Olivia Green 2) Anabel Alexander
3) Nora Dellifield 4) Brenna Hissong
Girls team scores:
1) Liberty-Benton 138 points
2) Columbus Grove 108
3) Arlington 68
4) Arcadia 54.5
5) Riverdale 54
6) Van Buren 50.5
7) Vanlue 43
8) Elmwood 40
9) Pandora-Gilboa 22
10) Allen East 19
11) North Baltimore 17
12) Bluffton 16
13) Ada 11
14) Hardin Northern 10
15) Cory-Rawson 8
Boys team scores:
1) Columbus Grove 84 points
2) Liberty-Benton 74.5
3) Bluffton 73
4) Pandora-Gilboa 67
5) Van Buren 55
6) Cory-Rawson 52
7) Evergreen 47
8) Arlington 38
9) Elmwood 35
10) Ada 31
11) Hardin Northern 30
12) Upper Scioto Valley 27.5
13) Riverdale 16
14) McComb 15
15) Arcadia 5
16) Leipsic 4
17) Vanlue 3
17) Allen East 3
17) North Baltimore 3
