By Monty Siekerman
The queen and her court (from left): Caitlyn Stover, 2017 Queen Lyric Jones, 2016 Queen Libbie Milks, Madison Preston, Nikki Lehsten, who won the essay award.
All the contestants are Ada High School seniors, and each received numerous gifts from merchants.
Caitlyn joins the list of Harvest and Herb Festival queens since 2012:
2012 - Erica Kier
2013 - Katelyn Guagenti
2014 - Alexis Amburgey
2015 - Sidney Faine
2016 - Libbie Milks
2017 - Lyric Jones
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.
