Trash Pickup Times in Extreme Heat: Rumpke trash collection could start as early as 4:30 a.m. Please place trash and recycling curbside the night before
By Cort Reynolds
ADA - Versatile Ada senior Leona Dalton was named first team All-Northwest Conference for softball in voting conducted by the league coaches Monday evening.
Dalton won 13 games and struck out a school single-season record 239 batters over 151 innings this spring. The workhorse hurler completed 23 games.
Dalton also led the team offensively. She compiled a .448 batting average by knocking out 35 hits. She scored 32 runs, led the team in slugging pct. and drove in 35 runs to lead Ada in all five categories.
The Ohio Northern softball team has withdrawn from the NCAA Division III Tournament due to COVID-19 protocol issues.
ONU was scheduled to travel to the Marshall, Tex., Regional and play No. 12-ranked Salisbury (Md.) in the First Round on Friday.
The Polar Bears will finish their 2021 season with a 24-18-1 overall record.
Northern was fourth in the OAC Regular Season standings with a 19-16 mark and won the OAC Tournament this year under fourth-year head coach Jackie Price.
Ada Youth Football sign-ups are open online for Kindergarten to sixth graders starting today (May 18) and continuing to June 10. To register open the following link:
According to Meagan Zoladz, “If you are new to Ada Youth Football, you need to create an account before registering. Please enter the grade your child will be in for the 2021-2022 school year.”
By Cort Reynolds
COLUMBUS GROVE - The Ada track and field teams competed in the first day of the Northwest Conference championship meet Thursday at Columbus Grove.
Host Grove holds substantial leads in the boys and girls standings after the first day, with five field events and one relay completed.
The Ada girls are fifth out of nine teams, and the Bulldog boys eighth after day one.
Ada sophomore Courtney Sumner won the long jump for the Lady Bulldogs. Junior teammate Olivia Green finished second in the long jump.
By Cort Reynolds
LIMA - The Ada tennis team competed hard at the Div. II sectional tournament hosted by UNOH Thursday.
No Bulldogs advanced to the second day of semifinal competition Saturday despite a good run by the top doubles tandem.
After doing very well in singles competition all season, senior Miranda Wills and junior southpaw Dexter Woods III combined forces to play in the 23-team doubles tournament.
Seeded third, the Bulldog pairing received a first round bye into the round of 16. In their first match, the Ada duo defeated Hayden Bader and Ali Braglia of LCC 6-4, 6-2 to advance to the quarterfinals.
By Cort Reynolds
HAVILAND - The visiting Ada softball team fell behind early and lost 11-1 to Wayne Trace in Div. IV sectional final action Thursday evening.
The Raider girls jumped out to an 8-0 lead and were never headed.
Ada dropped to 12-12 with the tournament loss, while hard-hitting WT improved to 15-9 with the win. The Lady Raiders advance to the district semifinals at Elida.
WT tallied two runs in the first inning and never trailed. Raider Ava Zartman scored on a wild pitch, and a sacrifice fly by Tatum gave the Raiders a 2-0 lead.
