A beautiful late summer day found several thousand people enjoying the 32nd annual Harvest and Herb Fest in downtown Ada on Saturday. Here, from the roof of the Liberty National Bank, one sees a small portion of the festival goers strolling up and down Main Street checking out the many booths that lined the street. (Thanks to the bank for letting the Ada Icon photographer get a birdseye view from the high-up perch.) - Monty Siekerman photo.
By Dusty Donley
The visiting Bulldogs jumped out to a 28-point first half lead in Delphos last Friday night and survived a furious second half comeback to pick up a huge conference victory against the Wildcats, 35-33.
DJ scored 26 unanswered points in the second half, but a Chase Sumner interception with under a minute to play sealed the Bulldog victory. With the win, Ada moves to 1-0 in the NWC and 3-1 overall. The conference loss is Jefferson’s first in almost three seasons.
By Tim Glon
Junior Will Freed (Carlsbad, Calif./San Marcos) threw for 289 yards and three touchdowns to junior Chad Rex (Bradenton, Fla./Lakewood Ranch) to lead the Ohio Northern football team in a 40-21 loss to Heidelberg on Saturday afternoon at Dial-Roberson Stadium.
The Polar Bears fall to 1-1 overall and are 0-1 in the Ohio Athletic Conference, while the Student Princes improve to 2-0, 1-0.
Freed hit Rex on TD passes of 2, 55 and 3 yards, but the Heidelberg offense picked up 655 yards of total offense to spoil Northern's home-opener.
Rex finished the day with six receptions for a career-high 144 yards.
SPRINGFIELD — The Ohio Northern volleyball team swept Clarkson (N.Y.) on the final day of the Wittenberg Fall Classic before falling 3-1 to No. 3-ranked Wittenberg on Saturday afternoon in Springfield.
The Polar Bears improve to 9-3 overall with the victory, while the Golden Knights fall to 5-5, and the Tigers move to 9-0.
Senior Haley Potters (Wheelersburg/South Webster), and sophomores Chelsea Huppert (Bremen, Ind.) and McKenna Jordan (Toledo/St. Ursula) each recorded 11 kills in the game one victory.
Huppert and Potters hit a blistering .474 and .448, respectively in the win.
TIFFIN — The No. 19-ranked Ohio Northern men's cross country team posted a fifth place finish on Saturdayafternoon at the Tiffelberg Open at the Clinton Heights Golf Course.
Northern finished fifth of nine teams and moved its record to 30-6 on the season.
Junior Ian McVey (Stow/Munroe Falls) led Northern across the finish line in 25:26.
Senior Bobby Borger (Perrysburg) also posted a top-10 finish for Northern, finishing the race in 26:07.
Senior Sam Boyd (Killbuck/West Holmes) rounded out the trio of ONU athletes in the top-15 as he finished 12th in 26:26.
OBERLIN — Freshmen Hoang Do (Powell/Olentangy Liberty) and Vinh Thai (Galloway/St. Charles) led the Ohio Northern men's tennis team as it competed in the first day of the Oberlin Tournament on Saturday afternoon.
Do and Thai teamed up in doubles play to take down a duo from John Carroll, 8-5 to lead ONU on the afternoon.
Junior Tim Kargl (Downers Grove, Ill./South) and sophomore Andrew Garcia (Downers Grove, Ill./South) fell in doubles play in a hard-fought 8-5 decision against John Carroll on court No. 16.
