Two Ada High School swimmers competed at the Div. II state swim meet preliminaries at Canton's C.T. Branin Natatorium Thursday, February 24.
Ada freshman Lily Baumgartner participated in two races at Canton. She advances to the B finals in both events while gaining valuable experience as one of the meet's youngest swimmers.
Baumgartner finished 16th in the state preliminary 100-yard butterfly heats out of 24 swimmers. She qualified for the B Finals race on Friday. The top eight finishers made it to the A finals race.
Baumgartner swam the 100 butterfly in 58.56. She was seeded 13th amid the 24-girl field in the 100 fly.
Ada senior Cayden Murphy was named honorable mention All-Northwest Conference in voting recently conducted by the league coaches.
Murphy led Ada in scoring and rebounding as the Bulldogs finished 4-19 overall this season, and 0-8 in the NWC.
Senior Mason Brandt of Leipsic was named NWC Player of the Year.
Todd Boblitt of league co-champion Bluffton was voted NWC Coach of the Year. Crestview tied the Pirates at 7-1 for the league title.
Spencerville finished third at 6-2, followed by Columbus Grove (5-3), Leipsic (4-4), AE and Lincolnview (3-5) in a tie for sixth, Delphos Jefferson (1-7) and Ada (0-8).
Ohio Northern got off to a quick start and pulled away late to win 62-46 at Otterbein in the quarterfinals of the OAC Women's Basketball Tournament on Tuesday, February 22, at the Rike Center.
The fifth-seeded Polar Bears (17-7) advance to the semifinals Thursday at top-seeded and No. 12-ranked John Carroll.
The fourth-seeded Cardinals end their season at 18-7.
Senior Lexi Jacobs (Wapakoneta) scored 15 points, senior Jaidyn Hale (Lima/Bath) added 14 points and junior Brynn Serbin (Pittsburgh, Pa./North Allegheny) chipped in 10 points for ONU.
The Ada High School football team has issued the following invitation to the March Madness fundraiser:
Help out the Ada Football team by purchasing a March Madness square! If you would like to purchase squares let Coach Sean Anderson know! $20 a piece! The rules and explanation are as follows:
We sell 100 squares at $20 a piece
The squares would be randomly put on a 10x10 grid board at a date before the tournament begins.
Playing in Coldwater, the Ada High School boys basketball team got off to a strong start but eventually lost 73-55 to St. Henry in Div. IV first round sectional play Tuesday night, February 22.
The Bulldogs led 20-19 after the first quarter, but fell behind 35-28 by halftime.
"We played well early," said Ada head coach Vince Halliday. "We scored easily but couldn't get stops. We gave up two easy layups on lobs, and a few too many second-chance points.
"In the second quarter they played a little more downhill and we had a hard time stopping the ball, got beat off the dribble.
Eleven different players scored goals as the Ohio Northern men's lacrosse team opened its 2022 season with a 13-4 victory at Alma (Mich.) on Saturday, Februarty 19 at Bahlke Field.
The Polar Bears (1-0 overall) got two goals each from junior Alex Reimer (Lancaster, N.Y. ) and sophomore Aiden Dempsey (Silver Spring, Md./St. John's College) and one goal each from nine other players in the win.
Junior Riley O'Neal (Dumfries, Va./Forest Park) had a goal and two assists for a team-high three points on the day.
Northern scored five first period goals to lead 5-1 and took an 8-2 lead into intermission.
