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 Senior Mackenzie Wills (Ada) tied the school record for career victories, leading the Ohio Northern women's tennis team to a 6-3 victory over Baldwin Wallace on Wednesday afternoon at the West Campus Courts.

The Polar Bears improve to 6-0 on the season and are 4-0 in Ohio Athletic Conference play, while the Yellow Jackets fall to 2-1, 2-1.

Wills won 6-1, 6-1 at No. 5 singles for her 172nd career win, tying the mark set by Meghan Letizia from 2012-16.

She is already ONU's all-time career singles wins leader with 88 and is second all-time with an 84-31 mark in doubles matches. She needs only five more doubles wins to tie Letizia's record of 89.

By club reporter Lindsey Winings
The Jumbo Jr. Farmers 4-H Club met at McDonald Township Hall on April 12 at 7 p.m.

Topics of discussion included; election of officers, club t-shirt orders and the enrollment deadline. 

The club also discussed upcoming service projects, including; roadside trash pick-up around the township, helping place veteran memorial flags at the Mc. Donald Township cemetery and planting flowers at the Hardin County Fairgrounds. 

The next meeting is set for Monday  April 26th at 7:00pm and Quality Assurance training will be presented. Snacks will be provided by Holden Lautenschlager and Jeffery Bushong. 

Dexter Woods III stayed unbeaten

By Cort Reynolds
LIMA - The visiting Ada tennis team lost 4-1 to Bath on a windy Wednesday evening.

The Bulldog netters dropped to 2-4 after the defeat. Bath improved to 2-2 with the victory.

"It was a closely-contested match," said Ada head coach Dexter Woods. "It was also the second match in a row that Miranda and Dexter faced twin brothers at first and second singles," he added.

Ada senior Miranda Wills dropped to 3-3 this spring with a close two-set loss to hard-hitting Bath freshman Daniel Bolon at first singles.    

"Miranda played a long, close match that could have gone either way," said Woods. 

Courtney Sumner wins 2 events and run in two 1st place relays

Photo and story by Cort Reynolds
ADA - The host Ada boys and girls track and field teams each won a home triangular meet Wednesday evening at the park.

The Bulldog boys outscored Ridgemont 68-52.5, with North Baltimore third at 43.5 points.

The Ada girls finished with 79.5 points to easily out-distance second-place North Baltimore (42) and Ridgemont (29.5).

Lady Bulldog sophomore Courtney Sumner won two individual events (long jump, 200 meters), and ran a leg for two first-place Ada relay quartets.

The following construction projects are anticipated to affect highways in Hardin County next week. All outlined work is weather permitting.

• U.S. 68 and State Route 309 will have moving operations for herbicidal spraying along the right-of-way and guardrail. 

• State Route 37 between the village of Forest and the Hancock County line will have lane restrictions for resurfacing.

• State Route 53 between the village of Forest and the city of Kenton will have lane restrictions for resurfacing.

If you’ve not visited Ada Public Library lately, you’d better stop in. Harry Potter is on the checkout desk as you can see on the photos in this series. You’ll be rewarded to view a very detailed fold-out of Harry’s realm.

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