By Cort Reynolds
ADA - The Ada girls basketball team was seeded 10th out of 14 teams at the St. Marys/Bath Div. IV super sectional drawing held by conference call Sunday afternoon.
The Lady Bulldog cagers (6-13) will take on tough fourth seed New Knoxville (12-6) Wednesday, February 19 at 6:15 p.m. at Bath.
The Ada/NK winner takes on the victor of the Feb. 19 first round Bath game between sixth seed New Bremen (10-7) and 12th seed Hardin Northern (6-13). That sectional final will be held Saturday, Feb. 22 in Bath at 8 p.m.
Top seed Ft. Recovery (13-4) received a first round bye, as did third seed Minster (15-3).
By Cort Reynolds
PAULDING - Visiting Ada rallied late to beat Paulding 57-51 in a tight Northwest Conference boys basketball contest Friday night.
Ada trailed 38-35 heading into the fourth period, but the Bulldogs outscored the Panthers 22-13 over the final eight minutes to pull off their second road win of the season.
"We made some adjustments against their zone after the third quarter break, and our guys did an awesome job of coming out and executing those adjustments," explained Ada fourth-year head coach Dre White.
That "pigskin's" from Ada. Wilson's sent 108 made-in-Ada Super Bowl footballs to the San Francisco 49ers and to the Kansas City Chiefs last week. The arrow points to one of those balls in the screen shot taken from ESPN Twitter during the first quarter of tonight's Super Bowl.
Ada will host the 14th annual Hardin County Chamber and Business Alliance dinner meeting and awards presentation on Thursday, Feb. 27.
The event will be from 6 to 8:30 p.m. in the McIntosh Center ballroom on the ONU campus. The evening will include the awards program, dinner, introduction of the board of directors and 2020 goals, and finish with a business meeting.
New to this year’s event will be a cocktail hour preceding the dinner, from 5 to 6 p.m. at The Inn at ONU. Details are included via registration, but please note, an additional fee will be charged for this event.
Ada sophomores have an opportunity for a one-day career development experience on Tuesday, Feb. 25. Sophomores can be excused from classes on Feb. 25 to shadow a professional in their chosen career path.
All sophomores are required to write a report and do a presentation on a particular career to a teacher and school administrator. Ideally, this report is written based off shadowing a professional on their job site.
The goal of this program is to encourage sophomores to begin the process of determining their career path, which they will further explore and adjust in their junior and senior years.
Note: this article is provided by Ohio Northern University Healthwise Pharmacy.
Americans may be getting less sleep than they have in previous years, and it might be because of smartphones.
Lack of sleep isn't just linked to chronic conditions like type 2 diabetes and heart disease. It's also tied to poor academic performance among children, as well as motor vehicle crashes.
Recommended Sleep Times
The recommended amount of sleep to get each night varies with age. The National Sleep Foundation recommends the following number of hours of sleep each night:
