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Bulldog boys basketball edged by Commodores

By Cort Reynolds

ADA__The inexperienced Ada boys basketball team rallied late but lost a tough 49-42 battle to visiting Perry Saturday night, December 16.

The young Bulldogs fell to 0- 5 overall with the non-league defeat.

Bulldog wrestlers 8th at Lancer Invite

McClain wins at 150, Riblet and Vieira 2nd in their divisions

By Cort Reynolds

MIDDLE POINT __The Ada High School wrestling team finished a solid eighth at the 15-team Lincolnview Lancer Invitational meet Saturday.

Senior Clayton McClain won the 150 lbs. title to pace the Bulldog grapplers. Silas Riblet and Liam Vieira took second in their respective weight divisions.

McClain won each of his three pool play matches by pin to advance to the final four at the 150 lbs. division. He ended up pinning Levi Grace of Crestview at 3:43 in the championship bout to end the day 5-0.

Riblet was 3-0 in pool play at 113 lbs., and went 4-1 overall after losing in the championship match by a 17-6 majority decision.

At the 144 lbs. bracket, Vieira won his three pool matches, all by pin. He then advanced to the final where he lost by pin to finish 4-1 on the day.

Andy Fries named head Football coach at Ohio Northern

By Tim Glon

Ohio Northern University named Andy Fries as its head football coach on Tuesday, December 12.

Fries (pronounced FREEZE) is the 29th head coach in the 129-year history of Ohio Northern football and is just the school's fourth head coach in the past 38 years.

AHS boys basketball felled by Grove in NWC opener

By Cort Reynolds

ADA__The Ada high School boys basketball team played its Northwest Conference opener Friday at home vs. an older, more physical Columbus Grove squad and lost 53-31.

Bulldog girls basketball loss at Grove

By Cort Reynolds

COLUMBUS GROVE__The visiting Ada High School girls basketball team was outscored 31-9 over the middle quarters at Columbus Grove and lost 63-22 in Northwest Conference action Thursday night, December 14.

Ada trailed 24-7 after the first period and never recovered. 

CG guard Lauryn Auchmuty bombed in four triples and tallied 14 of her game-high 26 points in the opening stanza as the hosts built a big early lead and cruised to victory.

Auchmuty added nine more points in the second period to extend the lead to 36-15 at intermission.

Bulldog girls basketball outscored by Falcons

By Cort Reynolds

ADA__The Ada High School girls basketball team built an early lead but eventually lost to hot-shooting guest Riverdale 60-45 on Tuesday, December 12.

Ada raced to a nine-point lead with 4:45 left in the first period. But Riverdale heated up its shooting and could do little wrong offensively in the middle quarters as they outscored the Bulldog girls, 32-16.

The Falcons ended the first half on an 18-5 run, then staved off a late Ada rally with an 11-0 spurt to seal the outcome.

The Bulldogs girls dropped to 3-4 overall with the non-league defeat. The Falcon girls improved to 2-4 after the victory.

Senior point guard Olivia Burkhart returned to the Ada lineup after missing one game due to illness, and led the Bulldogs with 18 points.

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