Three Ada cross country runners participated in the annual Kyle Althauser Memorial Invitational meet Thursday evening in Kenton.
Bulldog senior Riley Ferguson finished 36th in a time of 21:37.5 as the lone Ada male runner.
Hunter Sidle of Allen East finished first in the 68-runner boys race in 17:00.5.
Marion Pleasant won the seven-team boys team title with 30 points. St. Marys was a distant second with 58 points. Kenton was third (105), Allen East fourth and Hardin Northern fifth (110).
Ada sophomore Jillian Hazelton crossed the line 22nd in the 43-runner girls race with a time of 27:22.6.
The visiting Riverdale soccer team defeated the Ada girls 7-0 in a North Central Ohio Soccer Association match Wednesday evening, October 6, at War Memorial Stadium.
The Lady Bulldog record dropped to 2-8-1 overall and 0-3 in NCOSA action after the defeat.
The Falcon girls improved to 7-6-2 and stayed first in NCOSA play at 4-0-1 with the win.
Riverdale led 3-0 at the half, and tacked on four more goals after intermission.
Ada (0-3-1 NWC) hosts sixth-place Northwest Conference foe Delphos Jefferson (4-7-3, 1-3-1 NWC) Monday, October 11.
The Ada volleyball team lost a close four-set battle to visiting arch-rival Upper Scioto Valley Monday night.
The Lady Bulldogs fell to 2-15 with the 25-16, 22-25, 25-15, 25-22 non-conference defeat.
USV improved to 4-12 with the hard-fought victory.
"Our back row play was not as good as it is normally," said Ada head coach Kyleigh Woodruff. "They had a lot of tips that fell in. We were reaching for the ball instead of getting our body behind the ball. We were a step slow.
"Our serve receive also wasn't as solid as usual either," she added.
Four Ada cross country runners competed in the Wildcat Invitational meet Saturday, October 2, at the Kalida Fish and Game Club.
Lady Bulldog sophomore Elsie Allen finished 87th in 26:20.5 to pace the Ada girls.
Sophomore teammate Jillian Hazelton was close behind her in 90th place with a time of 26:59.9.
Senior Andrea Burgei of Kalida won the 117-runner girls race in a time of 19:16.5. Junior Taylor Spencer of Waynesfield-Goshen was second in 19:25.3.
Liberty-Benton won the girls team title with 58 points, Ottawa-Glandorf was second (81) and Van Buren third (86). Ada and 11 others did not have the five runners needed for a team score.