The Ohio Northern women's golf team was in first place out of six teams after the first day of the Bluffton Spring Classic on Saturday at Hidden Creek Golf Course.
The Polar Bears (55-12 overall) carded a 336 on the 5602-yard, par-72 course and lead Mount Saint Joseph by eight strokes and Bluffton by 11 strokes.
Sophomore Grace Honigford (West Chester/Lakota East) and freshman Amelia Burger (Centerville) are tied for second out of 44 golfers with 10-over par 82s.
The Ada High School track and field squads competed at the eight-team Joe Rider Horn Tiger Relays hosted by Waynesfield-Goshen Saturday, April 2.
Indian Lake edged Spencerville to take won the girls team title, while Bath captured the boys team crown.
The Ada girls finished seventh at the event, while the Bulldog boys came in eighth.
Ada senior Lauren Mullins finished in a first-place tie as an individual in the pole vault. The Bulldog tandem of Mullins and Josie Phillips took first in the PV relay.
The Ada boys shuttle relay quartet also came in first.
The Ada High School girls softball team split a home twinbill vs. Upper Scioto Valley and Miller City on a chilly Saturday afternoon, April 2, at Ada War Memorial Park.
The Lady Bulldogs whipped the rival Rams 11-4 in the opener, but lost the nightcap 15-4 to MC to run their record to 1-2 this season.
"Against USV we kept it together and answered back," said new Lady Bulldog head coach Jeff Bassitt. "We shut them down the last four innings and Jenna settled down."
Ada jumped on top with two runs in the home first vs. USV. Jenna Bassitt and Aidra Preston opened the game with consecutive singles and came in to score.
The Ada High School baseball team split a doubleheader with arch-rival Upper Scioto Valley Saturday afternoon, April 2, at Ada War Memorial Park.
Ada held on to win the opener 3-2, but a big Ram rally early in the nightcap paved the way for a 16-2 win. The Bulldogs ran their record to 2-1 with the split. USV is now 2-2.
In the first game, Ada held onto a 2-1 lead for most of the game after scoring two runs in the second.
The Bulldogs tacked on a crucial run in the bottom of the sixth.
The Ada varsity baseball team has solid veteran pitching and a lot of youth on its 2022 roster.
The Bulldog baseballers return six starters from last year's team that finished 7-14 overall and 1-7 in the Northwest Conference, good for eighth place.
Veteran Bulldog head coach Jason Campbell enters his ninth year at the helm of the Bulldog program (44-152 overall, 8-64 NWC).
He has new coaching help from intense assistant Toby Smith, who has won over 300 high school games as a head coach. Smith also serves as the head Ada football coach.
