ADA — The Ohio Northern women's swimming and diving team posted a 160-120 victory over Mount Union in a rare Sunday afternoon meet at the ONU Sports Center Natatorium.
The Polar Bears improve to 3-1 overall and are 2-1 in the Ohio Athletic Conference with the victory, while the Purple Raiders fall to 4-2, 1-2.
Senior Sydney Veon (Riverside, Ill./Riverside-Brookfield) led the Polar Bears with four victories on the afternoon.
In a span of about 10 minutes, Veon won the 100 breast in 1:08.63 and the 50 free in :25.66. Later in the meet she won the 100 free in :56.56.
The Ohio Northern men's swimming and diving team clinched at least a share of its 12th Ohio Athletic Conference regular season title with an 182-118 victory over Mount Union on Sunday at the ONU Sporrts Center Natatorium.
The Polar Bears improve to 4-0 overall and are 3-0 in the Ohio Athletic Conference, while the Purple Raiders fall to 4-2, 1-2.
Ohio Northern also extended its home OAC dual meet winning streak to an impressive 31 meets and won its 11th OAC Regular Season crown in the past 12 seasons under head coach Peggy Ewald.
LIMA - The Ada wrestling team finished tied for ninth at the 18-team Lima Senior Spartan Invitational Saturday.
Senior Chase Sumner posted the top Bulldog finish by coming in third in the 145 lb. division. He lost to eventual bracket champ Collin Mell, a senior from Bath, in the semifinals.
But Sumner bounced back to take the third-place match over senior Casey Lawrence of Little Miami at 2:51 by pin.
Bulldog freshman Colton Biederman (106) and senior Xander White (182) took fifth place in their divisions. Senior Ada Bailey (285) and freshman Cameron Bober (138) took sixth in their brackets.
McGuffey - Host Upper Scioto Valley edged traditional foe Ada 43-40 in their annual non-conference boys basketball rivalry battle Saturday night.
The purple and gold drop to 2-10 with the difficult defeat, while the Rams improve to 9-2 with their sixth consecutive victory.
Ada trailed 16-10 after the first period, but surged ahead 23-22 at halftime. USV inched in front 32-31 heading to the final period of play and hung on for the close victory.
McComb - The Ada girls basketball team overcame an early 14-point deficit and rolled to a 64-48 non-league win at McComb Saturday afternoon.
With their second straight victory, the Lady Bulldogs improved to 4-9.
McComb raced to a 17-3 lead, but then Ada scored 37 of the next 44 points to pull away and win.
"It is the best we have played all year," said Ada head coach Bill Taflinger.
Senior Maddie Gossard led the Bulldogs with 18 points on six three-point goals, and added 10 rebounds. Junior guard Raina England contributed a strong game with 15 points, five assists and five caroms.
Jack Frost painted the inside of a garage door in Ada on Sunday morning. Cold and snow may be getting old hat by now, but look around and you’ll find exceptional beauty in nature.
Jack Frost “painted” what looks like a wheat field. It’s only temporary, of course. Frost follows in the footsteps of Vincent Van Gogh, who, during his lifetime, painted dozens of wheat fields from The Netherlands to the south of France. Van Gogh’s paintings, not fleeting, are worth millions of dollars each nowadays. This window of “wheat” does bring momentary joy, however...at no cost.
