What's a local sportswriter to do during the short but arid period between spring and fall high school sports? Icon ace Cort Reynolds takes a thorough look at the St. Louis Cardinals' July slump.
By Cort Reynolds
A devastating July swoon has plummeted the once pleasantly-surprising St. Louis Cardinals from a solid wild card position to selling at the July 31 trade deadline after a disastrous 8-16 spell.
Following a sweep of Cleveland at the end of June, the Redbirds held a season-best mark of 47-38 as they went into Pittsburgh flying high.
FINDLAY – The Ada High School boys golf team teed off its 2025 season at the earliest point ever by competing in the seven-team Arlington Invitational on the Sycamore Springs Golf Course on July 28.
The Bulldog linksters finished sixth at the season-opening event.
Ada junior ace Brody Rister fired an 18-hole score of 87 to finish tied for third individually.
Owen Green of meet champion Arcadia was the meet medalist by four strokes with a score of 83.
The Redskins posted a team stroke total of 386 to win comfortably by 13 shots.
ADA – The 2025-2026 Bulldog boys soccer team played an alumni squad to a 4-4 tie on a wet field in their annual bout Saturday, July 26, in War Memorial Stadium.
“It was a good game,” said Bulldog head coach Aaron Acheson.
It rained very hard an hour before game time, making the synthetic turf slippery.
Logan Jolliff, who is headed to play for Ohio Northern this fall, scored two goals. Fellow 2025 grad Nathan Williams netted one goal, and Ryan Ulrey added the other alumni goal.
JULY 27 MEDIA RELEASE__Urgent volunteer opportunity: the Ada Soccer Association is seeking volunteer coaches for 2 fall teams – one is a U10 Coed (all boys) team, and the other is a U12 Coed (all boys) teams.
Please don’t be deterred if you don’t have experience with soccer, you can be set up with coach to teach you the basics, give ideas on how to run practices, and drills that would be beneficial. It’s a short season and coaches make their own practice schedules.
ADA – Several Bulldog girls soccer players of the recent past and current vintage squared off on a wet field for the annual alumni vs. varsity game Friday, July 25, in War Memorial Stadium.
It rained hard about an hour before game time, making the synthetic turf slick but also dropping the temperatures to about 79 degrees as the sun disappeared.
Neither team scored in the first 20-minute quarter. Alumni goalkeeper Katie Sizemore made several good diving and sliding saves to keep the game scoreless.
WAPAKONETA __The Ada Gators boys finished a solid fifth at the annual eight-team Western Ohio Aquatics League summer swim championships hosted at the Wapakoneta village pool July 11-12.
The Gators girls took eighth place, and Ada finished sixth in the combined team standings.
The WOAL meet is for swimmers aged 5-18 who are members of one of the league’s eight teams. Over 500 swimmers competed in the hot two-day championship event.
The Bluffton Sardines won the boys/girls team title. The Sardine boys captured first, while the Bluffton girls came in third.
