The Bluffton and Ada Icons will post a 2021 national championship college football contest on Tuesday. There will be one Bluffton Icon winner and one Ada Icon winner.
Icon sports writer, Cort Reynolds, recently had an article publilshed on the Boston Celtics blog.
The article is about ex-Boston player and coach, K.C.Jones. He won eight titles as a Celtic defensive ace guard, and two more as Boston head coach in the mid-1980s. Jones died Christmas Day at age 88.
Senior Sam Krabacher (Hamilton/Badin) has been named the Ohio Athletic Conference Scholar-Athlete of the Month for January.
A middle distance runner by trade, Krabacher is one several student/athletes on the Ohio Northern track and field team that gives a full commitment to the cross country season as well.
He is highly successful in the middle distances on the track, earning five All-Ohio Athletic Conference honors in his career, including back-to-back top-3 finishes in the 800-meter dash at the OAC Indoor Championships.
The 2020-21 Bluffton and Ada Icon football bowl contest is here.
This year's contest includes 15 bowl games played from Dec. 30 through Jan. 2.
Contest rules
Contestants may enter as many times as they wish, but each new entry must be in a different name. When more than one entry is submitted using the same name those entries will be disqualified.
In the contest pick the winner of each bowl game. There are two tie-breakers. In the event that a tie still exists after the second tie-breaker is counted the earliest entry will be declared the winner.
The Ohio Athletic Conference has announced a shift for its regular season wrestling schedule, moving all contests from Saturdays to Sundays for the 2021 season.
Wrestling will determine its OAC champion with a round-robin schedule of meets held on Jan. 24 at Mount Union and Feb. 7 at Ohio Northern.
All eight schools will also compete at Baldwin Wallace on Jan. 31 in a schedule yet to be determined.
The NCAA Central Regional Championships on Feb. 26-27 at Alma, Mich., and the NCAA III Championships at LaCrosse, Wis., on March 12-13 remain unchanged.
