KENTON - The Ada Alligator summer swim team won a tight combined dual meet as well as the boys team competition at Hardin County rival Kenton Monday evening.
The Gator boys won their half of the West Ohio Aquatic League meet by a 341-221 score. The Ada girls lost to Kenton 348-256, but the Alligators won a very close combined team score, 597-569.
The Ada boys team improved to 2-2 in dual meets this summer while the Gator girls dropped to 1-3. In combined team meets, Ada is 2-2 this summer.
Mr. President and Mr. President. Bob Ward (left), head of the Ada Rotary Club, and Jack Jeffery, leader of Kiwanis, are pictured Tuesday at a noon picnic that the two service clubs have together at Ada War Memorial Park each year. Members and spouses enjoyed a carry-in on a beautiful day. (Monty Siekerman photo)
By Monty Siekerman
Mackalyn Figgins heads up the lunches for ReStore Community Center at Ada War Memorial Park.
The free lunches are held from noon until 1 p.m. Monday through Friday until Aug. 3. All are welcome.
Twelve people took advantage of the lunches on Wednesday. Mackalyn, from Fayette, Ohio, is helping as an intern, which she said is good experience for her since she majoring in youth ministry and music at Ohio Northern. Her musical talent includes singing and playing piano, trombone, and guitar. She will be an ONU junior this fall. She is also helping to start a youth ministry at the Alger First United Methodist Church this summer.
The Hardin County Extension Office reports that the rest of June is likely to be warmer than normal with high variability of rainfall but tendency to above normal rainfall.
It appears a heat dome will be centered in the south central U.S. this summer with periods where it shifts over the corn and soybean belt and Ohio Valley.
The next surge of heat will come this weekend into early next week. With these surges come a ring of fire of storms around the heat dome leading to locally heavy rainfall. However, that rain will be scattered.
The Ohio Northern men's and women's swimming and diving teams were both named Scholar All-American teams for the 2018 spring semester by the College Swimming & Diving Coaches Association of America.
The CSCAA recognizes teams with the Scholar All-America Award for achieving a team GPA of 3.0 or higher.
The teams represent 476 institutions from across all NCAA, NAIA and NJCAA Divisions.
Both the men's and women's swimming and diving teams earned the honor for the second consecutive spring term and in three of the last four spring terms.
Mackenzie Wills of Ada (right) won the Lima Area Tennis Association women’s singles tournament last weekend.
She won handily by defeating opponents 6-2, 6-4; 6-0, 6-0; and 6-2, 6-1. Mackenzie was a star player for the Ada Bulldogs and has won her fair share of singles and double matches for ONU.
