By Cort Reynolds
LIMA - The Ada swim teams competed at the annual, 21-school Lima Holiday Invitational meet Thursday, December 27 at the YMCA natatorium.
Ada junior Klava Katayama captured first in the 100 and 200-yard freestyle races to score all 40 Lady Bulldog points.
The purple and gold girls finished 15th out of 21 teams, while the Bulldog boys came in 17th out of 20 squads.
Shawnee won both the boys (372.5 points) and combined team titles (639). Ottawa-Glandorf won the girls team crown with 304 points.
Ada sophomore Paige Cole finished 17th in the 100 breaststroke (1:23.02) to just miss scoring by one place.
Bulldog junior Isaac Spar took 10th in the 100 butterfly and 16th in the 200 free to pace the Ada boys.
Scoring Ada girls finishes (top 16):
100-yard freestyle
1st Klava Katayama Jr 54.28
200 freestyle:
1st Klava Katayama Jr 2:01.34
Girls team scores:
1 Ottawa-Glandorf 304
2 Lima Shawnee 266.5
3 Celina 227
4 Upper Sandusky 204
5 New Bremen 200.5
6 Wapakoneta 184
7 Fort Recovery 143
8 Coldwater 120
9 Minster 107
10 Tiffin Calvert 87
11 Versailles 57
12 Lima Bath 50
13 Lima Central Catholic 46
14 Lima Senior 43
15 Ada 40
16 Marion Local 30
17 St. Henry 26
18 Fort Loramie 17
19 Toledo Central Catholic 12
20 Elida 4
21 St. Marys Memorial 2
Scoring Ada boys finishes (top 16):
100 butterfly:
10th Isaac Spar Jr Ada 1:04.11
200 freestyle:
16th Isaac Spar Jr Ada 2:15.32
Boys team scores:
1 Lima Shawnee 372.5 points
2 Upper Sandusky 275
3 Ottawa-Glandorf 231
4 Wapakoneta 229
5 Versailles 194
6 St. Marys Memorial 187.5
7 Minster 140
8 Celina 109
9 Kenton 101
10 Elida 88.5
11 Coldwater 48
12 Lima Bath 39
13 Lima Senior 38
14 Miller City 36
15 New Bremen 30
16 Marion Local 13
17 Ada 7.5
18 Lima Central Catholic 6
19 Botkins 5
20 Tiffin Calvert 2
Ada swims next at Colonel Crawford on Saturday, January 12 starting at 10 a.m.
