By Monty Siekerman
Many basketballs were raffled off to win pizzas at the Teen Dating Violence Awareness event during the JV and varsity boys basketball games in Ada on Saturday evening.
Here, Kylie Guagenti gathers the balls together.
Another set of mini balls were tossed out to the crowd at halftime of the varsity game. Players for both teams wore orange socks, which is the group's color.
The Hardin County Family Safety Coalition sponsored the event to discourage teen dating violence.
Football coaches from Ada, Bluffton, Findlay, and Lima will give their analysis on the Super Bowl game during the The Made-in-Ada Wilson Football Festival the day before the Big Game between the New England Patriots (AFC champs) and the Atlanta Falcons (NFC champs).
Who might win, what are the prospects, the strengths and weaknesses of each team? Find out from some local experts.
The panel is at 4:30 p.m. in ONU's McIntosh Center Bear Cave.
Donald Trump's recent executive order bars entry to refugees for 120 days,
and to those from Syria indefinitely. It blocks visitors for 90 days from
seven countries.
Refugees are among the most vulnerable people on the planet. Many have
suffered unimaginably. In the United States is a nation of refugees and
immigrants.
I hope that our representatives in Congress and in Ohio will pressure
President Trump to reverse this order. Meanwhile, I hope within Ada, we all
work to show international students, immigrants and refugees that they are
welcome and valued in our community.
ADA — The Ohio Northern women's basketball team has moved up two spots to No. 6 in the ninth weekly D3Hoops.com poll, released Monday evening.
Northern stayed perfect on the season after an overtime victory at Wilmington and a defeating Capital at the ONU Sports Center last week.
Northern (19-0) is one of eight unbeaten teams in the poll.
Tufts (Mass.) held on to the No. 1 spot with 613 points and 15 first place votes, while Amherst (Mass.) remained at No. 2 with 601 points and six first place votes and St. Thomas (Minn.) moved into third place with 565 points and one first place vote.
The undefeated ONU women's basketball team has a major contest on Wednesday evening that may go a long way in determining the conference championship and the team's national ranking.
Tip off time is 7:30 p.m. In the ONU Sports Center for the ONU-Baldwin Wallace game. Tickets are $7 for adults and $5 for seniors.
BW is 16-3 overall and in second place in the Ohio Athletic Conference with a 9-3 record.
ONU is tops in the conference and continues to climb in the Division III polls nationally, now ranking 6.
In their first contest this season, ONU bested BW 60-55 in Berea.
