CANTON – Ada senior Lily Baumgartner qualified to the state finals in two individual events with strong preliminary heat showings in the Ohio Div. II swimming meet at Canton’s C.T. Branin Natatorium Thursday evening, February 20.
Baumgartner took third amid a 32-girl field in the 100-yard backstroke preliminary heats Thursday evening. She swam a 56.10 to advance to the A Finals Friday.
Shaker Heights sophomore Josephine Piliang touched first in the 100 back prelims in 54.92.
Baumgartner took fifth out of 32 in the 100 butterfly prelims Thursday evening. She recorded a time of 56.75 to make it to the A Finals Friday.
ADA – Ada High School junior post Anna Conley was voted third team All-Blanchard Valley Conference in girls basketball by the league coaches recently.
The 6-0 Conley led the Bulldog team in scoring (11.7 ppg), rebounds (9.4 avg.) and blocked shots in their first BVC season.
Senior guard Lexi Poling was named honorable mention all-league. She topped Ada in three-point field goals.
Sophomore guard Kenley Poling also earned honorable mention all-conference notice. The quick guard was second on the Bulldogs in three-pointers, and played scrappy defense.
COLUMBUS GROVE – The scrappy Ada High School girls basketball team had its season ended 80-24 at Northwest Conference champion Columbus Grove in sectional final action on February 15.
CG raced to a 23-3 lead after the first period and led the tournament battle of the Bulldogs 40-7 at halftime.
The Ada girls ended their season 4-19. Second seed CG improved to 21-2 with the victory, and advanced to the district semifinals.
