Here's the latest happenings at Ada High School, from the school website:
VOLLEY FOR THE CURE: The Ada High school volleyball team will host a volley for the cure on Oct. 3 at the Ada gym versus Spencerville. All proceeds going to Amelia Griffin a first grader at Ada who is in remission from stage four cancer
If you were interested in purchasing a volley for the cure shirt for team Amelia see any high school volleyball player. The cost is $10 for the shirt there will be posters up around the school letting you know about the other things going on they will be lots of baked goods to purchase and other things to do.
Saturday’s Harvest and Herb Festival stretches all the way from the First United Methodist Church, just north of Highland Avenue…all the way to Lehr Avenue.
And not counting this week, over 180 vendors were already registered, making this one of the largest-ever festivals.
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Scott Henning, Ada High School vocal music director, has been named choir director at the Ada United Methodist Church. He received the Bachelor of Music degree at Otterbein University, studied at the Cleveland Institute of Music, and has performed with opera companies in Cleveland and Columbus as well as with several symphonies.
MT. BLANCHARD - The Ada cross country teams competed at the Riverdale
Invitational Thursday afternoon.
The Bulldog boys finished eighth out of 12 teams, beating Hardin Northern,
Allen East, Cory-Rawson and Pandora-Gilboa. The Ada boys finished four
places higher than they did at last year's Riverdale meet.
Ada boys times:
Reece Evans 19:40
Hunter Wells 20:20
Michael Crouse 20:23
Jacob Morgan 21:47
Ian Dellifield 25:35
The Lady Bulldogs finished last in eighth place, only one point behind
seventh-place Hardin Northern.
ADA - Ada will try to rebound from a disappointing loss in their home opener to LCC when they kick off Northwest Conference play at four-time defending league champion Delphos Jefferson Friday.
Ada (2-1) can get a leg up on its quest for a first NWC title since 2013 with a win at the Wildcats. But they will have to play much better than they did in the 41-21 loss to LCC.
After a mostly close first half, the dangerous Jeff-Cats (2-1) hammered Paint Valley 54-20 last Saturday afternoon. Jefferson previously lost to Shawnee 27-6 at home in their opener, then edged past Versailles 14-7 in week two.
PAULDING - Spencerville won a four-team Northwest Conference golf match Thursday at the Auglaize Golf Course to clinch the league regular season championship.
Spencerville finished first with 160 strokes, followed by Paulding (177), Crestview (205) and Ada (225).
Bearcat Gavin Harmon was match medalist with a 36, nosing out teammate Ethan Harmon's 37.
Alex Morgan topped the Bulldogs with a career-low score of 47. Brevin Sizemore shot a 55. Wyatt Baderstcher carded a 61 and Austin Amburgey added a 62.
Rob Allison also posted a 64 and Jake Colwell added a 73.
UPPER SANDUSKY - The visiting Ada boys soccer team shut out Upper Sandusky Thursday evening 4-0 to extend their win streak to five.
Ada improved to 6-1 with its fifth win in a row.
Chris Reyes talied three goals to pace the victors. Logan Williams scored a goal and passed out an assist. Noah Pinkney dealt a pair of assists while Nate Allen doled out one assist.
Ace Gamble made one save in goal for the Bulldogs as Ada out-shot US 18-1.
Ada shared the NWC title with DJ in 2013. The Bulldogs beat the Wildcats 25-20 and then 27-22 in the playoffs that fall, both times in Delphos. Since then Jefferson has won their last three meetings handily (10-0, 51-7 and 44-0 last year).
Despite their recent success, the Wildcats experienced an off-season head coaching change. Chris Sommers, who guided DJ to three straight outright NWC titles from 2014-16, left this past January to take over the reins at arch-rival Spencerville.
Wildcat assistant and Napoleon native Brandon Behnfeldt was moved up to replace Sommers at the Jefferson helm in February.
