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Remember your high school dissection project? Ada High School anatomy and physiology classes are involved in rabbit dissections this month. Here is a view from the Ada Bulldog Facebook. Click here for more photos.
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By Cort Reynolds
ADA - Visiting Columbus Grove earned a share of the Northwest Conference girls basketball crown with a 66-15 victory over Ada Thursday evening in the regular season finale.
Ada finished 1-20 overall and 0-8 in the NWC with the defeat. Meanwhile, Grove improved to 16-5 and ended up 7-1 in the NWC to tie Bluffton for the league crown with the decisive win.
CG came into its final league game tied atop the league standings with Spencerville and Bluffton at 6-1. Crestview was close behind at 5-2.
Cort Reynolds, Icon sports writer, had an article published in SB Nation celticsblog.com the day before the Super Bowl.
The article detailed the championship playoff history between the two coastal rivals, with an emphasis on the Celtics/Lakers championship series rivalry.
Its headline reads: Boston vs. Los Angeles, a long history of sports rivalry.
Click here to read the article.
ONU women's and men's basketball teams both defeated Heidelberg on Feb. 13. Those game stories follow.
Women's game
The Ohio Northern women's basketball team sent the program's Class of 2019 student-athletes out in style Wednesday evening, toppling Ohio Athletic Conference foe Heidelberg 53-45 inside the ONU Sports Center on Senior Night.
Senior All-American Ryan Bruns (Chickasaw/Marion Local) has been named the Ohio Athletic Conference Men's Basketball Player of the Week for the week of February 6-12.
Bruns averaged 29 points, 11.5 rebounds and 3.5 blocks per game last week as the Polar Bears (5-18 overall, 1-15 OAC) defeated Otterbein 75-70 and lost at John Carroll 90-71.
University lacrosse season begins later this month. Here’s a preview of ONU men’s and women’s team.
Men’s outlook
The Ohio Northern men's lacrosse team has been picked to repeat as Co-Champions in the Ohio Athletic Conference Preseason Coaches Poll in voting conducted by the league's 10 head coaches.
The Polar Bears received 75 points and six of the 10 first place votes in the poll.
John Carroll was also picked as a Co-Champion with 75 points and the otehr four first place votes, while Baldwin Wallace was picked to finish third with 68 points.
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ADA - Visiting Columbus Grove earned a share of the Northwest Conference girls basketball crown with a 66-15 victory over Ada Thursday evening in the regular season finale.
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