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Poling’s record three-point assault shoots Ada past Vanlue

By Cort Reynolds

A record three-point onslaught propelled the host Ada High School girls basketball team over visiting Vanlue 69-31 in a non-conference mismatch Tuesday night, December 13.

Sophomore guard Lexi Poling drained seven three-point field goals to break a school single-game record previously held by three other Bulldog girls.

The Bulldogs improved to 4-4 behind their most impressive performance of the season. The Wildcats fell to 1-5 with the defeat.

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Bulldog swimmers 2-1 at quad meet

By Cort Reynolds

OTTAWA – The Ada High School swim team competed well in a four-team meet against Bluffton, McComb and St. Henry at the Putnam County YMCA Monday evening, December 12.

The Bulldogs went 2-1 in the dual meet event. (Individual results.)

In the combined boys/girls scores Ada beat St. Henry 75-63, defeated McComb 84-8 and lost to Bluffton 95-58.

The Lady Bulldogs defeated St. Henry 47-44 and swept McComb 51-0. Bluffton edged the Ada girls, 45-38.

Polar Bears compete with off-road vehicles and robots

SAE Baja
T.J. Smull College of Engineering's SAE Baja team took three vehicles to the Second Annual Baja Butler Bash hosted by Grove City College in October 22 and came home with first place overalll.

They were awarded a hefty trophy--it weighs about 52 pounds.

Car #18 completed 52 laps (1st place), car #54 completed 41 laps (4th place) and car #80 completed 35 laps (5th place). There were fifteen total vehicles in the race from six universities.

ONU sports recap, December 7-10

Men's Basketball vs. Wilmington
WILMINGTON — Senior C.J. Napier (Miamisburg/Bishop Fenwick) scored 18 points in just 20 minutes to lead the Ohio Northern men's basketball team to a 76-64 victory over Wilmington on Wednesday night at Raizk Arena.

The Polar Bears return to action on Saturday when they continue Ohio Athletic Conference play with a 2 p.m. contest at No. 6-ranked Mount Union as part of a men's-women's doubleheader at the McPherson Athletic Complex.

USDA will survey Ohio farmers on well-being

Beginning in late December, the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS) will spend several months gathering information about farm economics and production practices from farmers and ranchers  across Ohio, as the agency conducts the third and final phase of the 2022 Agricultural Resource Management Survey (ARMS). 

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