The Ada boys track and field team narrowly won the five-team Riverdale Invitational in Mt. Blanchard on Tuesday, April 19.
The Ada boys won the team title by a point over host Riverdale, which took first on the girls side. The Lady Bulldogs finished third out of five teams.
Junior Courtney Sumner won the long jump and 200 meter dash to pace the Lady Bulldogs.
Logan Jolliff, Julian Grose and Mathew Frazier won individual events to lead the Ada boys to victory.
The young Ada High School softball squad led almost the entire game, but the visiting Waynesfield-Goshen team plated four runs in their final at bat to rally past the Lady Bulldogs 11-9 on a cold, windy Tuesday evening, April 19.
The Bulldog girls dropped to 2-7 after the difficult non-league defeat. The Lady Tigers improved to 2-3 with the seesaw, come-from-behind victory.
Ada led 6-0 after the first two innings, but W-G methodically chipped away and grabbed a 7-6 edge behind four runs in the fifth frame.
Playing at home, the Ada High School baseball team rode a 10-run fourth inning to run-rule visiting Waynesfield-Goshen 15-0 on a cold and windy Tuesday evening at the War Memorial Park diamond.
Ada improved to 4-5 with the lopsided five-inning win, their second victory in a row. Meanwhile, W-G dropped to 1-5 with the non-league defeat.
Bulldog senior hurler Kadin Phipps struck out six and allowed just three hits over five innings to earn his second win of the season.
ONU sophomore Grace Honigford (West Chester/Lakota East) won Medalist honors and led the Ohio Northern women's golf team to a victory at the 6-team Polar Bear Easter Classic on a warm and windy Friday, April 15, at Colonial Golfers Club in Harrod.
Playing at Ridgeway, the Ada High School baseball team scored six runs in the sixth inning at Hardin County foe Ridgemont to defeat the Gophers 9-4 on a windy Friday evening, April 15.
Ada improved to 3-5 with the non-league win over previously undefeated Ridgemont, which fell to 4-1 with the loss.
Bulldog junior hurler Roman Snyder earned the pitching win as Ada hurled its second one-hitter in as many days. He struck out nine over five innings.
Ada broke a scoreless tie with a run in the top of the third inning. They plated two more in the fifth frame, then stretched the lead to 9-0 with the six-run sixth.
