By Cort Reynolds
SPENCERVILLE - Visiting Ada fell behind early and lost 76-40 to Spencerville in a Northwest Conference girls basketball contest Thursday evening.
The Lady Bearcats ran out to a 21-11 lead after the opening period as Emma Leis pumped in 11 points. The hosts extended their lead to 38-21 at intermission as Leis added seven more markers.
Spencerville put the game well out of reach with a 20-7 third stanza that gave the black and red a 58-28 margin heading to the final quarter.
Ada had its best period in the fourth stanza, losing 18-12.
By Cort Reynolds
ADA - Visiting Waynesfield-Goshen built an 18-point second half lead and held off an Ada rally to win a non-conference boys basketball makeup contest 45-35 Wednesday night.
W-G broke open a 26-17 halftime lead with a 9-0 run to start the second half. Ada managed to slice the deficit to 41-35 with 2:19 remaining to play, but could get no closer.
The Bulldogs dropped to 2-13 overall with the defeat. W-G improved to 3-12 with the win.
The NCAA has announced that it will be canceling all of its Division III winter championships events for the 2020-21 academic year.
In its release, the NCAA cited low participation numbers for its member schools as the reason for the cancelation of men's and women's basketball, men's and women's swimming and diving, men's and women's indoor track and field, men's and women's ice hockey, and wrestling championships events.
The Ohio Athletic Conference is still planning on hosting its regularly scheduled championship events for the winter sports.
Here's a brief video posted on Ada Bulldogs Facebook. Click the link to get on the Facebook site and then scroll down to the video: https://www.facebook.com/adabulldogs/
You'll see a buzzer beater by Zack Zimmerman, Ada 7th grader, playing at Paulding.
He hit a shot longer than half court going into halftime to set the pace for Ada's second half. Going into halftime, down 7 to 19, Ada scored 15 of their 30 points in the fourth quarter in a 3-29 win.
Both Ohio Northern University indoor track teams continued to be ranked nationally.
Women's team
The Ohio Northern women's indoor track and field team are ranked No. 7 nationally in the second weekly United States Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association Div. III power rankings, released on Tuesday.
The Polar Bears (4-2 overall) scored 111.96 pointsin the rankings, which are based on national performance rankings with bonus points for exceptional times. That is xx less than the 151.85 points in the first poll.
The power rankings include just a small portion of all schools that plan to compete this season.
