CRESTLINE - The Ada swim teams competed at the North Central Ohio Swim League championship meet hosted by Colonel Crawford Saturday in Crestline.
The Lady Bulldog swimmers finished a solid third at the eight-team title meet. Meanwhile, the short-handed Bulldog boys came in fifth.
Upper Sandusky won the boys team crown by a wide margin over host Colonel Crawford, 398-218. CC captured the girls team title over the second-place Rams, 341-245.
The Bulldog girls scored 160 points, while the boys tallied 105.
Ada senior ace Klava Katayama won both of her events, the 100 butterfly and 50 freestyle.
After more than a month away from competition, the Ohio Northern men's indoor track and field team returned to action in emphatic fashion Friday night inside the ONU Sports Center. The Polar Bears won the Larry Cole Friday Night Invite, scoring 140 points.
Sophomore Nate Dean (Euclid/Villa Angela Saint Joseph) led Northern. He paced the field in the 60-meter dash, boasting a time of 7.08, while adding a fifth-place finish in the 200-meter dash, clocking in at 23.48.
Ohio Northern University students will give new meaning to the term ice-breaker with the annual Polar Plunge from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Saturday at the pond inside of fraternity circle, located just south of the King Horn Sports Center. The annual event is sponsored by Delta Sigma Phi fraternity and raises money for the Alzheimer’s Association. Individuals pay $5 each to jump into the lake or to sponsor a friend. This is the 11th annual plunge, which raises between $1,000 and $2,000 each year. This photo is from last year's event.
Ada Diamonds Baseball/Softball registration takes place on three evenings this week.
Dates are from 6 to 8 p.m., Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday (Jan. 28-29-30) in the Dicke College of Business Administration room 140 on the ONU campus.
Six team opportunities are available ranging from T-ball to slow-pitch softball, fast-pitch softball, Pee-Wee baseball, Little League baseball and Pony League baseball.
An attachment below spells out age groups and registration fees. For further details email: [email protected]
Evelyn Kroft, resident of Vancrest, is smiling because she just cried, "Bingo!" And, she's posing with a very lovely throw blanket that she chose from the prize cart. The Icon stopped into Vancrest during last week's intense Bingo event. The next photo in this series shows Evelyn decided which prize to pick.
