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ONU senior Lindsey Black (Urbana/Graham) scored a career-high 17 points to lead No. 24-ranked Ohio Northern to a 76-60 victory over Wilmington in the Ohio Athletic Conference women’s basketball tournament quarterfinals on Tuesday evening at the ONU Sports Center.

The top-seeded Polar Bears (22-4) advance to Thursday's semifinals and will host either fourth-seeded Otterbein or fifth-seeded Baldwin Wallace on Thursday evening.

The eighth-seeded Quakers end their season with an 11-15 record.

ONU sophomore Cameron Marous (Brecksville) scored with 44 seconds left in overtime to lift the Ohio Northern men's lacrosse team to a 10-9 victory over Kenyon on Tuesday at the ONU Sports Center.

The Polar Bears (2-0 overall) rallied from a 5-2 third period deficit to sneak past the Lords (1-1).

Noah Archer, Ada first grader, has a great artistic career ahead of him. This creative underwater art work by Noah is one of a selection of pieces of Ada elementary currently on exhibit at Vancrest. Other pieces, which continue below are by Victoria Rausch, Paige Beckwith, Jackson Bowden and Aliyah Kober.

Ada Kiwanis members assist in moving library books to their proper place

By Monty Siekerman
Poof.

Ada Kiwanis members turned into book worms Tuesday at the Ada Public Library.

Actually, members of the service club pitched in to help move books back to their proper place as construction of the library’s addition and renovation nears completion.

The library has remained open for patron use nearly every day since the major expansion began late last summer.

Books were somewhat out of order as they were moved here and there, depending on the construction work for the day; however library staff could head patrons in the right direction to find what they needed.

School colors of Florida school where 17 died

By Monty Siekerman
It was maroon and silver rather than purple and gold at Ada Schools on Tuesday.

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Students and staff were asked to wear the school colors of Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in memory of the 17 students and teachers who died there at the hands of a gunman last week.

Gatekeepers, the newly-organized local chapter of the American Mental Health Alliance, asked those who would be at Ada Schools on Tuesday to wear the Parkland, Fla., school colors in memory of those who died and in honor of those who survived.

Jon Cross photographed with (L-to-R) Hardin County Sheriff Keith A. Everhart, Logan County Sheriff Randall J. Dodds and Hancock County Sheriff Michael E. Heldman.  

Photo Credit: Cross Campaign 

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