Ada High School sent a contingent of swimmers to the OHSAA state swim meet this past weekend in Canton and returned home with impressive finishes including one third place finish and one fourth place finish.
State qualifiers were Matthew Wilcox, Karl Karcher, Jon Robey and Mitchell Wilcox.
The Ada team qualifiers participated in Division II at Canton. The four state swimmers qualified through competition at the Sectional at the Lima YMCA and District at Bowling Green State University.
The Ada baseball program is interested in expanding by forming a junior high club team for seventh and eighth graders, according to Jason Campbell, Ada High School head baseball coach.
"Club baseball is played during the school year against area seventh and eighth grade teams. This does not replace the Ada Pony League summer baseball program,' said Campbell.
"We intentionally do not overlap the schedules of these programs, so they can work together to provide the players the opportunity to play more games," he said.
A parent meeting is planned at 8 p.m., Thursday, Feb. 28, in the small gym, next to the varsity basketball gym, in the school administration building.
The Ohio Northern women's basketball team moved up to No. 3 in the D3hoops.com poll and remained No. 3 in the USA Today Sports Division III Top 25 Coaches poll.
The Polar Bears received 555 points in the D3hoops.com poll, which was 18 more than they received in last weeks poll.
DePauw (Ind.) stayed at the top of the poll with 621 points and 22 of the 25 first place votes and Hope (Mich) is ranked second with 595 points and the three remaining first place votes.
Five Ohio Northern wrestlers earned All-Ohio Athletic Conference honors and ONU swept the three special awards for 2012-13 in voting conducted by the league's six head coaches.
Senior three-time All-American and defending national champion Kyle Kwiat was named the John Summa OAC Wrestler of the Year and sophomore Cody Lovejoy won the Most Falls in the Least Amount of Time award.
Head coach Ron Beaschler was named the OAC Coach of the Year for the second straight season and for the third time in his 25-year career.
