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ONU junior Alex Pizarro (Boonsboro, Md.) has been named the Ohio Athletic Conference Men's Lacrosse Defensive Player of the Week.

Pizarro, now a 3-time OAC Defensive Player of the Week honoree, earned the award after helping ONU to a 2-0 week to end the regular season.

The junior goalkeeper with sensational in the goal this week, helping ONU to its first trip to the OAC Tournament in school history.

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By Cort Reynolds

 

ELIDA - The Ada baseball team was seeded 12th out of 13 teams at the Div. III Elida district drawings held Sunday.

 

Ada (4-11) will host 13th-seeded Fostoria Wednesday, May 9 at 5 p.m. in a first round game.

 

The winner will then play at second-seeded Fort Recovery on Friday, May 11 at 5 p.m. in the second round.

 

The second round survivor will play either third-seeded Ottawa-Glandorf, sixth seed Liberty-Benton or ninth seed Lakota at Elida May 17.

 

The district finals will be May 19 at 5 p.m. at Elida. Coldwater was voted the top seed in the 13-team sectional/district.

 

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By Cort Reynolds

 

ELIDA - The Ada softball team was seeded second out of 10 teams in the Div. IV Elida district drawings held Sunday.

 

The Lady Bulldogs (11-6) were seeded behind only league foe Columbus Grove, with dangerous Wayne Trace ranked third. Ada received a first round bye.

 

The Lady Bulldogs will host the winner between Kalida and Continental on Thursday, May 10 in the sectional finals at 5 p.m. Kalida was seeded eighth and will visit seven seed Continental in the first round on Monday, May 7.

 

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Cort Reynolds' latest Celtics history blog published this week is trending strongly on the NBA websites of SB Nation.

The blog titled: "Celticcs and 76ers renew the most epic and prolific NBA playoff rivalry ever"

Read the article here: https://www.celticsblog.com/2018/4/29/17298874/boston-celtics-philadelph...

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CLEVELAND — Senior Lynn Kelly (Mason) won at No. 2 singles to lead the Ohio Northern women's tennis team in an 8-1 loss at John Carroll in a battle for the Ohio Athletic Conference Regular Season title on Sunday afternoon at Cleveland State's Medical Mutual Tennis Pavilion.

The Polar Bears end their regular season 18-6 overall and finish their OAC slate 7-1, while the Blue Streaks improve to 14-6 overall and win the league's regular season title with an 8-0 record.

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WEST LAFAYETTE — Senior Zach Goodchild (Pickerington/North) and junior Joshua Turich (Centerville) earned All-Conference honors to lead the Ohio Northern men's golf team to a fourth place finish at the 2018 Ohio Athletic Conference Men's Golf Championships on Friday-Sunday at River Greens Golf Course.

The Polar Bears (25-50-1 overall) finished fourth of nine teams in the 72-hole tournament with a 305-318-299-315—1237.

Goodchild finished fourth out of 45 golfers with a 10-over par 74-76-73-79—302 and Turich tied for ninth with a 14-over par 75-79-74-78—306.

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