Allen East used tough defense and accurate shooting to defeat the Ada High School girls basketball team 63-25 in the semifinals of the Border Battle tournament on Wednesday night, December 28, in Waynesfield.
Talented AE improved to 8-2 with the convincing win, while overmatched Ada fell to 4-6 with the defeat.
"Allen East is more athletic and has more size," explained first-year Ada head coach Zach Ricker. "We gave up a lot of second chance points on offensive rebounds."
DECEMBER 28 UPDATE: The library remains closed and is waiting for parts for the repair.
Director Rhett Grant reports: "There was no major damage, and the leak was contained to a boiler room. We hope to be back to normal and open by tomorrow morning. Thank you for your understanding."
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By Karen Kier
Pharmacist on behalf of the ONU HealthWise team
Heartbreaker is a common name shared by several songs released over the years. Two of the most famous are those performed by Pat Benatar in 1979 and Dionne Warwick in 1982. Pat Benatar has sold over 35 million albums and has won 4 Grammy Awards. She was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in November of 2022. Dionne Warwick’s song Heartbreaker was on her 1982 album by the same name. Her song was written by the Bee Gees, who later released their own version in 1994. Dionne won six Grammys and is the second-most charted female during the rock era. Interestingly, she served as a Goodwill Ambassador for the United Nations.
So, why the talk about heartbreak during the most wonderful time of the year?
Early in my pharmacy career, I was working Christmas Day in the hospital emergency room. We had a patient come in with a heart condition and the physician’s diagnosis was holiday heart. At first, I thought the physician was making a joke because we were both working a holiday, but then I realized he was serious.
LIMA--The Ada swim team finished 13th in the 29-team Bluffton Holiday Invitational meet Tuesday, December 27, at the Lima YMCA.
Ada sophomore Lily Baumgartner set a holiday meet record by winning the 100 butterfly. She broke the 12-year old meet record by .66. Baumgartner also broke the nine-year old meet record by 1.04 in winning the 100 backstroke amid a pool of 69 swimmers.
