By Cort Reynolds
ADA - The host Ada baseball team ran out to a big early lead and held off rival Bluffton 13-10 in the Northwest Conference opener on a cool, windy Thursday evening.
The Bulldogs improved to 4-3 and 1-0 in the NWC with the league victory, while the Pirates fell to 1-5 and 0-1 with the loss.
Bluffton was the home team even though the game was switched to the Ada park diamond.
The purple and gold scored three first inning runs, then added six more scores in the second frame to build a big 9-0 early lead.
Bluffton scratched back with two runs in each of the second and third frames to pull within 10-4.
By Cort Reynolds
ADA - Ada had several students named to the Northwest Conference winter sports scholar-athlete list recently. The entire NWC list is attached at the bottom of this story.
Criteria for inclusion are that students must be a letter winner in their sport, and meet the following grade point average requirements:
Gold level 3.50 and above
Silver level 3.00 - 3.49
Basketball cheerleading: Gold - Anabel Alexander, Nora Dellifield, Emma Jameson, Kama Arn, Barrette Jones, Courtney McLaughlin
Boys basketball: Gold - Cade Mullins
Silver: Micah Cook
By Cort Reynolds
McCOMB - Host McComb scored five runs in the sixth inning to post a 5-4 comeback win over the Ada softball team Tuesday evening.
The purple and gold dropped to 2-2 this season with the tough loss.
Ada led 4-0 through five innings. But in the home sixth McComb strung a few hits together, including a home run, and also capitalized on back-to-back Bulldog errors to seize a 5-4 lead.
The Panthers then held Ada scoreless in the seventh inning to preserve the victory.
By Cort Reynolds
McCOMB - The host McComb baseball team erupted for six runs in a wild first inning and held on for a 9-6 win over Ada Tuesday evening.
Ada fell to 3-3 with the non-league defeat.
The Bulldogs raced to an early lead by scoring three runs in the top of the first inning. But the Panthers responded by tallying six times in the home half of the first.
The Panthers then tacked on single runs in the third, fourth and fifth innings to extend their lead to 9-3.
Ada rallied to plate three runs and halve the deficit in their last at bat in the top of the seventh, but the lead was too much to overcome.
By Tim Glon
ADA — The Ohio Northern softball team scored 20 runs and pounded out 27 hits in a 7-0, 13-6 sweep of Wilmington on Tuesday afternoon at the ONU Softball Field.
The Polar Bears (9-9 overall, 3-1 Ohio Athletic Conference) also got a 4-hit shutout in Game 1 and a 3-inning save in Game 2 from senior Kaitlin Surdej (Lancaster, N.Y./Central). Surdej finished the day with 10 innings of shutout ball with only six hits allowed in the circle.
