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.
State Route 81 between township Road 55 and county Road 65, just east of the village of Ada, will close Oct. 1 for approximately 14 days for the replacement of two culverts.
Traffic will be detoured onto state Route 235, state Route 701 and U.S. 68 back to state Route 81.
Work is being performed by the ODOT Hardin County maintenance garage.
