By Cort Reynolds
Ada senior Chase Sumner won the 145 lbs. individual league title, repeated as the league's top grappler and the Bulldog wrestling team finished fourth at the eight-team Northwest Conference championship meet Saturday in Ada.
Sumner was voted the NWC Most Valuable Wrestler by the coaches for the second straight year. Mike Abbey of league champion Allen East was voted NWC Coach of the Year.
It was the first time Ada has hosted the NWC wrestling title event. Defending title-holder AE repeated as champion with 233.5 points.
My name is Mark Light, a 4-H educator with OSU Extension in Hardin County. My focus of educating for the community includes STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math), Social Media and Technology.
I received my Bachelor of Science in Civil Engineering from ONU and a master’s degree in college student personnel from Bowling Green State.
My family and I live in Ada. While attending ONU, I met Kim, my wife of 22 years. She is the Ada School treasurer. We have two children: Megan a freshman and Justin is senior at AHS.
ONU junior Ian McVey (Stow/Munroe Falls) and sophomore Jared Butcher(Mechanicsburg) and posted first place finishes to lead the No. 27-ranked Ohio Northern men's track and field team to a third place finish at the annual Joe Banks Invitational on Saturdayafternoon at the King-Horn Fieldhouse.
The Polar Bears (12-4 overall) finished third of 13 teams in the meet with 79 points.
McVey and Butcher would each claim a first place finish in the meet to lead the way for Northern.
ONU senior Amy Bullimore (Morrow/Little Miami) recorded her 13th double-double of the season to lead the Ohio Northern women's basketball team to a 70-36 victory over visiting Muskingum at the ONU Sports Center on Saturday afternoon.
The Polar Bears improve to 19-2 overall and remain atop the Ohio Athletic Conference with a 13-1 record, while the Muskies drop to 6-15, 2-12.
Bullimore paced the Polar Bear offense with a game-best 17 points and also grabbed a game-high 11 rebounds.
ADA - Ada senior Chase Sumner won the 145 lbs. individual league title, repeated as the league's top grappler and the Bulldog wrestling team finished fourth at the eight-team Northwest Conference championship meet Saturday in Ada.
Sumner was voted the NWC Most Valuable Wrestler by the coaches for the second straight year. Mike Abbey of league champion Allen East was voted NWC Coach of the Year.
It was the first time Ada has hosted the NWC wrestling title event. Defending title-holder AE repeated as champion with 233.5 points.
(Dave Devier, Ph.D., attended ONU and lived in and around the community for 45 years. He taught at Northern for 15 years. Currently, he is President of Glen Oaks Community College in Centreville, Mich. While in the Ada area, he and his wife Patty collected Ada/ONU memorabilia. He will write an occasional column for the Ada Icon describing some of their "finds" that pertain to the town and gown.)
