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).
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.
