By Cort Reynolds
MARIA STEIN - Host Marion Local powered its way to a big early lead and convincingly defeated Ada 57-29 in Div. IV first round sectional girls basketball play Thursday evening.
Third-seeded ML led 8-0 and built an 18-4 advantage after one period of play. The Flyers stretched the margin to 34-10 by halftime, led by 33 points at the three-quarter mark, and were never threatened.
Ada kept hustling and won the fourth quarter, 9-4.
Three ML girls tallied double figures as nine of the 15 Flyers who saw action scored in their balanced attack.
By Cort Reynolds
ADA - Homestanding Ada led for much of the game but a late 16-8 run lifted Paulding to a 52-48 comeback win in Northwest Conference boys basketball makeup game action Saturday night.
Senior guard Blake McGarvey nailed seven consecutive free throws and scored the last eight Panther points over the final 4:04 to help the Panthers stave off upset-minded Ada.
"I don't want to celebrate a moral victory but we responded well to a poor performance the night before that ended badly," said Ada head coach Jon Cook. "We fought like crazy, and for the first 27 minutes out of 32 I thought we were the better team.
By Cort Reynolds
LIMA - The Ada varsity swim teams competed in flight two of the Div. II sectionals at the Lima YMCA natatorium Saturday.
Three Lady Bulldog individuals and one relay squad qualified for the district meet Friday evening at Bowling Green State University.
"Weíre really happy with how everybody swam," noted Ada first-year head coach Katey Stuart. "We had some great time drops from the beginning of the season, and quite a few personal-best times."
Sophomore Carlie Oldfield won the 50-yard freestyle and 100 backstroke races to pace the Lady Bulldogs.
By Cort Reynolds
VAN BUREN - The Ada varsity wrestling team competed in the Van Buren Duals event Saturday.
Bryan, Ashland Crestview, Shawnee, Cory-Rawson, Riverdale, Ada and North Baltimore also participated in the event.
Ada individual records:
Clayton McClain 5-0
Colton Biederman 4-1
Antonio Pettit 2-2
Cameron Bober 3-2
Kyle Mattson 1-4
Jonathan McClain 2-3
"We wrestled solid, and it was great to get back onto the mat after coming out of a two-week hiatus because of quarantine," said Bulldog head coach David Ames.
By Tim Glon
The No. 19-ranked Ohio Northern men's indoor track and field team finished second of 10 teams with 148 points at the OAC Elite Meet on Saturday at Otterbein and Capital.
The ONU women finished fourth - their results follow the men's story
The Polar Bears (15-3 overall) got a pair of victories from junior Nate Dean (Euclid/Villa Angela-Saint Joseph), who won the 200-meter dash in :22.47 and was on the winning 4x200 relay team.
