Ada will host the Northwest Conference wrestling championship meet for the first time ever Saturday, starting at 10 a.m.
Allen East is the defending NWC champion, having edged Bluffton 209-206
last year at Spencerville. Ada took fourth in the 2017 eight-team event
with 134.5 points.
Ada senior Chase Sumner won the 138 lb. title at the 2017 NWC meet, and
was named league Wrestler of the Year.
The event will be held in the 1971 varsity gym Saturday.
Saturday marks the second annual Made in Ada Wilson Football Festival. It celebrates this community's creation of NFL footballs used in the Super Bowl on Sunday in Minneapolis. A schedule of events is in the story below. A midnight football drop highlights the celebration.
The Super Bowl is in Minneapolis - but a Saturday event, an Ada football drop, celebrates this community's connection to the larger world of sports.
The Saturday midnight football drop launches Super Bowl LII, in the hearts of Ada residents.
The second annual “Made in Ada Wilson Football Festival” on Saturday, Feb. 3, will celebrate the village of Ada’s connection to the biggest football game of the year.
Ada Rotarian Bob Ward, and his wife, Karen, may be in Florida right now but they haven't left Rotary behind. During a Rise Against Hunger event organized by a local Rotary group, they helped package 30,000 meals for children in Nicaragua with about 250 volunteers at the Fernandina Beach Rec Center. Bob, a retired engineering prof, sports an ONU t-shirt, while helping. Karen is active in civic and religious activities in Ada.
ADA - Visiting Spencerville used balanced scoring and a big first half to defeat Ada 68-39 in Northwest Conference girls basketball play Thursday night.
The Lady Bulldogs fell to 4-14 overall and 0-6 in conference play with a fifth straight defeat in their home finale. Meanwhile, the Lady Bearcats improved to 10-7 and remain tied for first in the NWC with the win at 5-1.
After a slow start for both teams, Spencerville rolled to an 18-4 lead en route to a 33-10 halftime bulge, and never was headed.
