By Cort Reynolds

The Ada cross country teams competed at the annual Northwest Conference title meet Saturday in Columbus Grove.

Freshman standout Abbie James led the Ada girls to fourth place out of five full teams at the event. Meanwhile, the Bulldog boys came in seventh out of eight, nosing out Allen East.

Lincolnview won the boys team title with 35 points, followed by Crestview with 65. Ada tallied 195 to beat out AE, which totaled 207.

Host Columbus Grove swept to the girls team title with 22 points to easily out-pace second-place Crestview, which totaled 60. Ada scored 117 points to beat out last-place Paulding (116).

Bulldog James took 12th overall in a time of 21:53.79. The average Ada girls time was 24:28.72.

Eric Armbrecht topped the Ada boys by finishing 34th in a time of 19:21.16. Larry Zembower came in 42nd in 19:49.63.

Andrew Ross was 48th, Keaton Kipker 56th and Seth Evans 63rd.

The average Bulldog boys time for the 3.1-mile course was 20:26.36.

Ada boys finish, times

34 Armbrecht, Eric  19:21.16

40 Zembower, Larry  19:49.63 

48 Ross, Andrew     20:14.66

56 Kipker, Keaton   21:07.79

63 Evans, Seth      21:38.53

73 Robey, Andrew    23:23.09

78 Ferguson, Brice  27:16.87 

Boys team standings

1 Lincolnview 35 points  

Average time:17:16.90

2 Crestview 65 

Average: 17:42.81

3 Columbus Grove 68   

Average:17:47.99

4 Paulding 82  

Average:17:59.88

5 Spencerville 128  

Average:18:55.71

6 Bluffton 188 

Average:20:26.26

7 Ada 195  

Total Time: 1:42:11.78  Average: 20:26.36

8 Allen East 207 Average: 21:20.93

Ada girls finish, times

12 James, Abbie 21:53.79 

18 Ennis, Olivia 22:57.05

29 Guyton, Mara 24:57.72   

31 Wolber, Jilian 25:26.0

42 Ennis, Alexis  27:09.0

45 Waugh, Danielle 28:17.0

51 Dellifield, Nora 30:47.0

Girls team standings

1 Columbus Grove 22 points

2 Crestview 60

3 Lincolnview 64

4 Ada 107

Total Time: 2:02:23.56

Average: 24:28.72

5 Paulding 116

Ada runs next in the district meet at Findlay on Saturday, October 22. The 15-team boys meet is at at 1 p.m., and the 16-team girls race is at 3 p.m.