The Ada Junior Winter Guard won the Ohio Indoor Performance Association state championships Saturday at Wapakoneta High School. Not only that, the group won with a record score of 87.5. Pictured are (from left) Mitchell Frazier, Olivia Green, Olivia Thomas, Alaina Robirds, and Tessa Long. Jonathan Lischak is director.
Ada High School Winter Guard won the Elite Scholastic Open of the Ohio Indoor Performance Association competition in Wapakoneta on Saturday. Members include Jake Colwell, Samantha Crawford, Madison Preston, Gizem Tanriverdi, Lindsay Crouse, Madison Wright, Leona Dalton, Jacob Morgan, Daniel Nash, Jacob Bassitt, Kaylee Huffer, Olivia Hiester, Alyssa Wince, and Victoria Ross. Click here for a photo the junior Winter Guard team.
The Ada High School Winter Guard won the Elite Scholastic Open of the Ohio Indoor Performance Association competition in Wapakoneta on Saturday evening. This is their 21st state title in the past 9 years.
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The Winter Guard and Dance Line and Ada Junior High School Winter Guard will give a free community performance at 8 p.m. on Monday, April 16, in the K-12 gym.
Winter Guard’s show is titled “Conjuring a Patronus,” and takes the audience through the process of learning this “advanced magic,” and ultimately dispersing a gym full of dementors with Harry Potter’s iconic spell.
An Ada junvenile will face charges of Inducing Panic, as a result of a weekend of a threat investigation toward Ada schools, according to Michael Harnishfeger, Ada police chief.
The police department issued the following news announcement concerning the investigation:
On Saturday morning, April 7, the Ada Police Department began an investigation into threats towards the Ada Schools.
After working the case throughout the weekend in conjunction with the FBI, a search warrant was executed in Ada on Sunday afternoon where several items were confiscated related to the case.
ALLIANCE — The Ohio Northern baseball team used strong pitching performances and a balanced offensive attack to sweep Mount Union 15-4, 9-4 on Sunday afternoon at 23rd Street Field in Alliance.
The Polar Bears improve to 16-6 overall and 4-2 in the Ohio Athletic Conference, while the Purple Raiders drop to 13-7, 4-2.
In the first contest, MtU scored an early run in the bottom of the first inning to take an early lead before Northern scored three runs in the fourth and fifth innings to take a 3-1 lead.
TEMPE, Ariz. — Senior Emily Richards (Delaware/Hayes) represented the No. 5-ranked Ohio Northern women's track and field team at the 39th Annual Sun Angel Classic in Tempe, Arizona on Saturday evening.
Richards competed in the premier section of the 800-meter run and entered the race as the top collegian in the event across all divisions.
The senior did not disappoint in the race, finishing second overall and posting the top collegiate finish in 2:02.84.