Three players from the highly successful Ada softball squad were named first team All-Blanchard Valley Conference in voting recently conducted by the league coaches.
Overall, five senior Bulldog girls and one sophomore were honored by the league. The 2025 team set an Ada program record for wins in a season with 22, and placed third in the 11-team BVC.
JENNA BASSITT
Bulldog senior pitcher/leadoff hitter Jenna Bassitt was named first team all-conference for the fourth straight year. Her initial three first team all-league seasons occurred while Ada was a member of the Northwest Conference.
ADA__The Ada Gators summer swim team dove into its season opener by splitting a dual meet with visiting Wapakoneta at the Ada Municipal Pool Thursday evening, June 5.
The Gator boys team beat the Waves, 145 points to 122. Wapakoneta won the girls meet 270-86 to capture the combined meet by a score of 392-231.
“I am so proud of the job our swimmers did in our first meet,” said Ada head coach Dave Lusk. “We had a number of swimmers in their first meet ever. We also had some (people) swimming events they had never swum before.
COLUMBUS – Ada senior speedster Logan Jolliff finished 11th out of 18 sprinters in the preliminary heats of the Div. III state track and field meet at Ohio State University’s Jesse Owens Memorial Stadium in Columbus on Friday, June 6.
Jolliff finished with a time of 11.207 to cross the finish line sixth in heat number two.
The top nine preliminary heats finishers made it to the finals Saturday. Jolliff missed state qualification by two places and less than .04.
JUNE 3 FACEBOOK POST__Due to weather and facility issues being faced by other teams, [the Ada Gators] have had to make some adjustments to our meet schedule in the coming weeks.
The meet on June 9 has been rescheduled to a tri-meet on June 30. It will still be hosted at the Bluffton Pool.
The meet on June 26 against Shawnee will now be a home meet at the Ada Pool.
FOSTORIA__The Ada High School track and field team was down to one athlete at the Div. III northwest region 10 meet finals Friday, May 30, in Fostoria.
Ada senior speedster Logan Jolliff finished second in his 100-meter dash preliminary heat on May 28 with a time of 11.21 to qualify for the Friday evening finals.
Jolliff improved his time in the final by .17 to 11.04 and thus finished fourth to make it to the state meet in Columbus.
Sophomore Tripp Phoenix of Carey won the 100-meter finals in 10.95. McComb senior Haiden Ebright took second in 10.99. Evergreen sophomore Luke Woodring crossed the line third in 11.01.
