By Cort Reynolds
COLUMBUS GROVE - The Ada track and field teams competed in the Northwest Conference championship meet Thursday and Saturday at Columbus Grove.
Meet host Grove claimed both the boys and girls championships.
CG captured the girls crown with 163 points, while Spencerville came in second at 141.
The Ada girls finished a solid fourth out of nine teams with 60 points, just edging fifth-place Bluffton (59) by a point. Delphos Jefferson and Lincolnview were right behind them in a tie for sixth with 58 points.
By Cort Reynolds
FT. RECOVERY - The visiting Ada baseball team lost 17-1 at Ft. Recovery in Div. IV sectional semifinal action Tuesday evening.
The Bulldogs dropped to 7-14 overall following the defeat.
FR improved to 9-16 with the win, and advances to the second round Thursday, May 20 at fifth seed Crestview (11-10). The Knights beat New Knoxville 11-1 in their sectional semifinal.
The game was called after five innings due to the 10-run rule.
Senior Jacob Morgan had a hit, was hit by a pitch and scored the only Ada run on an RBI hit by Kadin Phipps.
Classmates Jacob Poling, Cameron Bober and Trent Ennis each added a single.
By Cort Reynolds
ADA - Versatile Ada senior Leona Dalton was named first team All-Northwest Conference for softball in voting conducted by the league coaches Monday evening.
Dalton won 13 games and struck out a school single-season record 239 batters over 151 innings this spring. The workhorse hurler completed 23 games.
Dalton also led the team offensively. She compiled a .448 batting average by knocking out 35 hits. She scored 32 runs, led the team in slugging pct. and drove in 35 runs to lead Ada in all five categories.
Paige Cole, an Ada High School senior, is one of three $1,000 scholarship recipients through a Liberty National Bank Financial Literacy Program.
Thirty-six students in Hardin, Logan and Union counties submitted applications for the bank’s My Money Matters scholarship.
It is a free, online financial literacy program sponsored by the bank, at no cost to participating schools. Liberty is partnered with EverFi, Inc., an education technology company to bring this interactive, web-based financial management program schools.
The Ohio Northern softball team has withdrawn from the NCAA Division III Tournament due to COVID-19 protocol issues.
ONU was scheduled to travel to the Marshall, Tex., Regional and play No. 12-ranked Salisbury (Md.) in the First Round on Friday.
The Polar Bears will finish their 2021 season with a 24-18-1 overall record.
Northern was fourth in the OAC Regular Season standings with a 19-16 mark and won the OAC Tournament this year under fourth-year head coach Jackie Price.
Antoinette M. “Toni” Cramer, 79, passed away on Tuesday, May 18, 2021, at 5:20 a.m. at her residence.
She was born on April 1, 1942, in Chicago, IL, to the late Chester and Angeline (March) Stashwick. On Dec. 1, 1962, Toni married Loren W. Cramer and he survives in Lima.
Toni worked many interesting jobs over the last 62 years, having retired in August of 2014 as the Account Manager for CSI International, the cleaning contractor at Marathon Petroleum Findlay Office Complex. She previously worked for over 20 years in health care (LTC) in Environmental Services Management, including St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital in Memphis, TN.
