By Cort Reynolds
ADA - Lady Bulldog point guard Courtney Sumner fired in a game-high 26 points, including the final 11 markers, in the nailbiting Ada regular season finale Thurday night vs. visiting Lincolnview.
The talented sophomore knocked down three of her five three-point field goals in the final five minutes to keep the Bulldogs in contention.
But her desperation triple from the right wing at the buzzer just missed sending the game to overtime, and homestanding Ada lost a 54-51 Northwest Conference thriller in a battle for seventh place.
Ada played its best game of the season but came up agonizingly short.
By Cort Reynolds
KENTON - The Ada varsity swim teams competed in a makeup dual meet at county rival Kenton in the Hardin County YMCA natatorium to end the regular season Tuesday evening.
The Lady Bulldogs lost to Kenton in a close meet, 61-51.
The Bulldog boys were defeated by the Wildcats, 87-23. Kenton won the combined team meet by a score of 148-74.
Sophomore Carlie Oldfield won the 50 freestyle and 100 backstroke races to lead the Ada girls. Senior Paige Cole also won two races (100 butterfly and 100 breaststroke).
Sophomore Kaitlyn Bowden touched the wall first in the 200 freestyle.
•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.
