•Bulldog seniors girls Wills, Light, Waugh, Acheson and Leona Dalton were recognized before the game.
• 71 points was Ada boys' highest output of the season as a season-best 5 Bulldogs tallied double figures.
By Cort Reynolds -
ADA - Homestanding Ada defeated Waynesfield-Goshen 53-42 to celebrate Senior Night with a convincing non-conference girls basketball win Tuesday evening.
The Lady Bulldogs jumped out to an 8-2 lead and never trailed after being down 2-0. W-G rallied within 35-30 early in the fourth period, but senior Alexis Waugh ran off five crucial points to keep the Tigers at bay.
Ohio Northern's men's basketball games with John Carroll, scheduled for Friday and Saturday this weekend, have been canceled due to COVID-19 protocol issues at JCU.
If any other OAC men's basketball games are canceled this weekend, the Polar Bears (2-3 overall, 2-3 Ohio Athletic Conference) will try to schedule games with the non-compromised league team, if possible.
ONU is slated to return to action Feb. 19-20 with a home-and-home series against Capital.
By Cort Reynolds
ADA - Spencerville senior Keegan Goecke banked in a short shot with just under three seconds left to give the Bearcats an extremely hard-fought 37-36 victory at upset-minded Ada Friday night.
Ada clung to a small advantage for most of the Northwest Conference boys basketball battle. But the Bearcats rallied to seize a 32-30 lead with 4:04 remaining after Dylan Smith calmly drained two free throws.
Goecke's layup off an in-bounds pass gave the visitors a 34-31 edge with three minutes left. A free throw by Josh Henline moments later provided the Bearcats with their biggest lead at 35-31.
By Cort Reynolds
ADA - The Ada girls basketball team was seeded 10th out of 13 teams at the Div. IV super sectional drawing held by conference call recently.
Minster was voted the number one seed, with New Knoxville tabbed second by the coaches.
The Lady Bulldog cagers (4-13) will visit third-seeded Midwest Athletic Conference power Marion Local (16-4) Thursday, February 18 at 7 p.m.
The Ada/ML winner takes on sixth seed Parkway (8-10) at the home of the higher seed Saturday, February 20 at 7 p.m. Parkway received a first round bye after the higher-seeded Flyers declined it.
By Cort Reynolds
ADA - The Ada boys basketball team was seeded 13th out of 14 teams at the Wapakoneta Div. IV sectional/district drawings held Sunday.
The Bulldog boys (2-14) will travel to New Bremen (12-6) to take on the fourth seed Cardinals Wednesday, February 24. Tip-off is set for 7 p.m.
NB is 5-2 in the rugged Midwest Athletic Conference.
"It will be a very difficult (draw)," said Ada head coach Jon Cook. "It was kind of a six or one half dozen of the other kind of thing," he said in reference to which MAC power to play.
Ohio Northern University winter sports teams had a winning weekend. Here are summaries of those team's events.
WRESTLING ADA — The Ohio Northern wresting team wrapped up its abbreviated 2021 season with a 30-13 victory over Otterbein on Sunday afternoon at the ONU Sports Center Fieldhouse.
The Polar Bears finish with a 3-1 overall record and a 3-1 mark in the Ohio Athletic Conference, while the Cardinals end their season 1-3, 1-3.
Ohio Northern also celebrated Senior Day on Sunday and honored its graduating senior Rhett Roeder(Monroeville).
