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.
Toby Smith will continue to teach at Lima Senior the rest of this school year, then will teach and coach at Ada in the 2021-22 school year. He plans to implement workouts for the Ada program starting in mid-January
By Cort Reynolds
ADA - The Ada school board hired successful and experienced gridiron mentor Toby Smith as its new head varsity football coach last Thursday night at their regular December meeting.
"We are very happy to have a coach with a successful track record like his joining us," said Ada athletic director Eric Perkins.
"We think he will have a very positive impact on our student-athletes," he added.
A native of Connecticut, Smith is a 1993 graduate of Wittenberg University, where he received a bachelor's degree in health and physical education.
By Cort Reynolds
ADA - The host Ada boys basketball team lost a 38-36 overtime heartbreaker to local foe Cory-Rawson in non-league play Saturday night.
The Bulldogs led most of the game after holding the ice-cold Hornets without a field goal for the first 11:13 of the contest.
But C-R hung within striking distance, then put together a 13-0 second-half run to rally from a six-point deficit into a 27-20 lead.
Ada battled back to tie it 31-31 on back-to-back treys from seniors Trent Ennis and Tristan Conley with 2:22 left in regulation.
By Cort Reynolds
LIMA - The Bluffton swim club and Ada varsity team faced off in the Bulldog season-opening dual meet Thursday evening at the Lima YMCA natatorium.
Bluffton captured the girls meet 48-31, and also won the boys meet by a 67-12 score.
Sophomore Carlie Oldfield and senior Paige Cole each won two races to pace the Ada girls. Sophomores Kaitlyn Bowden and Jack Baumgartner also recorded first-place finishes for the Bulldogs.
Sophomore Riley Verb won two individual events for Bluffton and also swam a leg for two relay race winners.
By Cort Reynolds
ADA - The Ada girls basketball team earned its first Northwest Conference win 45-34 with a solid performance against visiting rival Allen East Thursday night.
Talented Lady Bulldog sophomore playmaker Courtney Sumner led an 11-2 third quarter flurry that broke open a close contest for a 31-18 Ada lead.
Spunky AE hung within striking distance but was unable to close within less than eight points the rest of the way.
Sumner led all scorers with 17 points. Senior post Miranda Wills contributed 16 points in just her second game back from an October car accident.
By Cort Reynolds
ADA - The Ada girls basketball team played hard but came up short to visiting Van Buren 58-47 in a non-conference contest Tuesday night.
Thought to be out for the season after an October car accident, Lady Bulldog senior post Miranda Wills miraculously recovered to make her season debut Tuesday.
"Just her presence on the floor, her energy and enthusiasm, means a lot," said Ada third-year head coach Morgan Bass. "Her hustle and vocal leadership adds a level of energy to the team."
