By Cort Reynolds
MT. BLANCHARD - The Ada cross country team finished 12th at the 13-team Riverdale Invitational Saturday.

The Bulldog boys scored 294 points while Hopewell-Loudon won with just 25 points. Van Buren was a distant second with 78 points, followed by USV in third (141).

Ada finishes and times:
31st Hunter Wells 19:54.78
69th Seth Swaney 22:23.03
73rd Riley Ferguson 22:39.98
88th Keegan Giddens 24:24.03
93rd Connor Daugherty 24:33.04
97th Xander Wells 25:13.8

Wells finished just three seconds behind his personal-best mark set at Riverdale last year. He paced the Bulldogs with a 31st-place finish in 19:54.78.

Riverdale Invite team results:
1 Hopewell-Loudon 25 points  
2 Van Buren 78    
3 Upper Scioto Valley 141    
4 Waynesfield-Goshen 142   
5 Elmwood 142   
6 Carey 173   
7 Bluffton 175   
8 Riverdale 197
9 Hardin Northern 255   
10 McComb 257   
11 North Baltimore 257    
12 Ada 294  
Total Time: 1:53:54.86                                  
Ada Average: 22:46.98                                                    
13 Cory-Rawson 338

Up next, Ada runs at the Galion Invitational Saturday morning, Sept. 14.