David Saygers will perform a tuba concert at 8 p.m. on Monday, Oct. 1 in Presser Hall. The event is free and open to the public.
Saygers is the artistic director at the Toledo School for the Arts. He will play the full gamut of sounds, octaves and emotions that can be performed on the tuba, from the remarkably soft to the loud volumes that the instrument can create.
He received his master’s degree in musicology from Bowling Green State University and did his doctoral studies in music performance from the University of Michigan.
Junior goalkeeper Meagan Grierson has earned Ohio Athletic Conference Defensive Player of the Week honors.
Grierson anchored a Polar Bears' defense that recorded its fourth and fifth consecutive shutouts against Oberlin and Thomas More (Ky.), respectively, and a 2-0-0 weekly record during the voting period. The two victories pushed ONU's current win streak to five and moved the program to 5-2-0 on the season.
The five shutouts in 2018 give Grierson 25 clean sheets for her career, which ranks third all-time in school history.
LIMA BATH TWP. - The Ada cross country team competed at the 12-team Bath Invitational Wednesday evening.
"We did not run our best times of the season despite a flat course and the weather being cooler," said Bulldog head coach Josh Klein.
Senior Miguel Jordan paced Ada with a time of 18:54 over the 3.1-mile course.
Junior Michael Crouse was second for the Bulldogs in 20:24, followed closely by classmate Hunter Wells in 20:28. Sophomore Jacob Morgan finished in 21:06, with freshman Riley Ferguson coming in at 24:17.
Keegan Giddens ran a 24:49 and senior Brice Ferguson finished in 28:56.
PAULDING - The visiting Ada volleyball team lost a tough five-set marathon at Paulding Thursday night in a key Northwest Conference match.
After losing the 21-25, 25-21, 17-25, 26-24, 15-6 battle to the first-place Panthers, the Lady Bulldog spikers fall to 10-9 overall and 3-2 in the NWC.
It was their second league defeat in a row after Ada had won the previous 19 straight in league play over the past three seasons.
As the only unbeaten team left in NWC play, Paulding improved to 6-0 in the league and 9-6 overall with the hard-earned victory.
