By Cort Reynolds
ADA - The host Ada girls basketball team lost a 43-40 nailbiter to county foe Hardin Northern Tuesday night in the hard-fought season-opener for the Lady Bulldog cagers.
The purple and gold fell to 0-1 after the tough defeat in their delayed lidlifter. HN improved to 1-2 with the victory, having lost to Botkins and Riverside before Thanksgiving.
Ada got off a last-second shot at a potential tying three-pointer, but the right side 20-footer was just off and Northern narrowly held on for the win.
By Amelia Alexander Amelia, an Ada HS student, is the Icon's newest columnist. Writing twice a month, this is her third column. Click here to read her most recent column. You will find all her future columns on our "Columnists" page.
COVID has caused a lot of uncertainty for everyone. This past spring, the majority of us were afraid of the virus, the economic uncertainty of the shutdown, and the uncertainty of remote learning.
Harvest is mostly complete with a few corn fields that still need to be shelled, according to Mark Badertscher of the Hardin extension office.
According to the Nov. 30 Ohio crop weather report, corn is 92% harvested in Ohio and 69% of the wheat is either rated good or excellent.
Soybean harvest is wrapped up in Hardin County. During the growing season, from April 15 through Oct. 15, average rainfall was 20.35 inches, which made 2020 a dry year. This is 4.57 inches below the 10-year average growing season precipitation, and 5.76 less inches of rain than last year’s growing season.
The area experienced 3.6 inches of snow on Nov. 30 for the first snowfall of the season, according to Guy Verhoff, Pandora weather observer.
And, in case you wonder, November was warmer than most Novembers.
Verhoff reports that the average temperature in November 2020 was 45.8 degrees. That’s 4.3 degrees warmer than the normal November average temperature of 41.5 degrees.
The November 2020 high temperature was 78 degrees recorded on Nov. 8 and Nov. 9. The low reading was 20 degrees on Nov. 14.
The daily weather summary for November may be viewed in the graphic below this story.
