RIDGEWAY - The host Ridgemont baseball team pushed across 10 runs in the fourth inning to post a 12-4 comeback win over county rival Ada on a windy, cold Friday evening.
The loss dropped the Bulldogs to 1-2 overall. The Gophers improved to 2-3 with the victory.
Ada jumped ahead 4-0 in the top of the first frame. Junior Austin Amburgey capped the big opening inning with a two-run double.
Bulldog sophomore Phillip Coulson started the game with a single and eventually scored, as did senior Colten Shaffer.
RIDGEWAY - The visiting Ada softball team raced to a 12-0 lead and held off county rival Ridgemont 13-7 on a cold, windy Friday evening.
Ada improved to 3-1 with its second victory in two days. The Lady Gophers fell to 2-3 following the defeat.
The contest was scoreless for the first two innings. Then the Lady Bulldogs erupted for six runs in each of the third and fourth innings to grab the dozen-run advantage.
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.
