Visiting Ada led throughout the game yet had to stave off an early fourth quarter Ridgemont rally to defeat their Hardin County rival 60-47 in the Bulldog boys basketball season-opener Friday night, November 25.
Bulldog senior Ethan Murphy tallied a career-high 23 points to lead Ada to their second straight season-opening win over the Gophers.
Ada led 17-11 after the first period and stretched the margin to 32-21 at halftime. Murphy fired in 15 points by intermission.
"Murphy carried us offensively in the first half," said second-year Ada head coach Vince Halliday.
Ada varsity head coach Vince Halliday enters year two of his rebuilding process for the Ada boys basketball program in 2022-23.
With eight seniors in the fold and a solid, athletic top six rotation, there is cautious optimism that this year's team could be much improved.
Eight lettermen and four senior starters return from a Bulldog team that finished 4-19 overall and 0-8 in Northwest Conference play. Ada dropped their last 15 games after a promising 4-4 start.
The visiting Ada girls basketball team fell behind early at local rival Cory-Rawson, then rallied before losing 49-45 in a non-league battle Tuesday night.
The Lady Bulldogs fell to 0-2 with the defeat, while C-R improved to 2-1 with the close victory.
"The main thing that hurt us is turnovers and we didn't consistently execute offensively, especially when we needed to," noted first-year head coach Zack Ricker.
"We were in foul trouble again and we just essentially made too many mistakes," he added.
CHICAGO, Ill.--The Ohio Northern men's swimming and diving team competed at the 12-team Chicago (Ill.) Phoenix Fall Classic Friday-Sunday at the Myers-McLoraine Pool.
The Polar Bears finished the non-scoring meet with 10 top-20 finishes at the University of Chicago's 10-lane pool.
Sophomore Holden Cubberley (Celina) led Ohio Northern, placing third in the 1-meter diving with 482.00 points for 11 dives and placing fourth in the 3-meter diving competition, scoring 468.15 points over 11 dives.
Cubberley's efforts surpassed the NCAA "B" Cut in both events.
EAST LANSING, Mich. — Ohio Northern senior Tessa Pitcovich (Stow/Stow-Munroe Falls) had an outstanding but frigid Saturday at the NCAA Division III Women's Cross Country Championships at the Forest Akers Golf Course at Michigan State.
Wresting OAC opener
The No. 15-ranked Ohio Northern wrestling team opened the Ohio Athletic Conference portion of its 2022-23 schedule with a perfect 60-0 victory over Wilmington on Tuesday night, November 15, at the ONU Sports Center Fieldhouse.
