OTTAWA__The Ada High School boys and girls swim teams both finished a solid second at a five-team meet in the Putnam County YMCA at Ottawa on Thursday, January 29.
The Bluffton boys won with 92.5 points, while the Pirate girls finished first with 92. The Pirates won the combined meet over second-place Ada, 184.5-106.5.
The Ada girls scored 56 points to come in second, and the Ada boys also ended up second with 50.5 points.
Junior Jacob Szippl won the boys 100-yard freestyle race to register the lone Bulldog individual first-place finish.
NORTH ROBINSON__The Ada High School swim teams competed on Saturday, January 24 at the eight-team North Central Ohio Swim League championships.
Meet host Colonel Crawford swept the boys and girls team titles. It was the 10th consecutive league crown for the Eagle girls, who rolled to the championship with 440 points. Bluffton finished a distant second at 202, while Upper Sandusky was third (168).
The Eagle boys scored 376 points to win the program's fourth NCOSL crown over the past six seasons. The Bluffton boys finished as league runner-up with 291 points, while Upper Sandusky was third at 204.
FROM YOUTUBE__Just down the street at Ada's Wilson Football factory, crews are making footballs for Super Bowl LX, to be played on Sunday, February 8 at 6:30 p.m.
VIDEO Wilson Sporting Goods on MassLive. "Super Bowl 60 is set as the New England Patriots and Seattle Seahawks will meet in the Bay Area in a couple of weeks, but the work to get them the actual footballs they’ll be using was done just hours after each team punched their ticket to the Big Game."
By Karen Kier
Pharmacist on behalf of the ONU HealthWise team
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