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Senior swim team members were recognized during this past weekend's Western Ohio Aquatic League championships, including Ethan Daniels, from Ada Alligators. The entire list of league seniors follows:
Ada Alligators: ​
Ethan Daniels

Bluffton Sardines
Tanner Pinks, Andrew Bertka, Amanda Speicher, Jordan Siefer

Kenton Marlins
Haley Hunt, Mason Manns

Shawnee Tide
Madi Gendreau, Lauren Mayers

Sherwood Sharks
Khloe Kaskocsak, Cayla Butler, Jacob Michael

Van Wert Marlins: ​
Noah Arend

Wapak Waves: ​
Tristan Gesler, Danica Zink

Ada Junior high football will start  Monday, July 22,  at 6:30  p.m. at the football practice field at the high school.

Dayton team is part of a 64-team tourney competition

Ohio Northern All-American Ryan Bruns  will participate in this year's The Basketball Tournament (TBT) with the Dayton Red Scare.

TBT is a 64-team tournament of top-notch professional basketball, featuring college alumni teams, international basketball stars, ex-NBA players and future NBA players competing in a single-elimination 5-on-5 tournament.

The champions from each regional site will move on to Championship Weekend to play for the $2 million, winner-take-all prize in Chicago from Aug. 1-6.

Carlie Oldfield wins 4 races; Lily Baumgartner captured first in 3 events

By Cort Reynolds
BLUFFTON - The Ada swim team finished a solid fourth out of eight teams at the 39th annual Elks West Ohio Aquatic League championship meet Friday and Saturday at the Bluffton pool.

Westside won the combined team meet, as well as the boys and girls team crowns. Bluffton took second in all three of the final team standings.

Ada came in fourth overall and fourth in the boys team results, while the Alligator girls ended up fifth.

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Ohio Northern senior Jackson Pfister (Upper Arlington) has been named a USILA/Warrior and New Balance Scholar All-American in men's lacrosse for 2019 by the United States Intercollegiate Lacrosse Association.

Pfister is the first ONU student/athlete to receive the award, which was given to 75 players from around the country, and graduated with his bachleor's degree in pharmaceutical and healthcare business in May.

Lily Baumgartner joins State of Ohio Team

By Cort Reynolds
On Sunday, July 7 Ada's Lily Baumgartner met a long-term goal by qualifying for the national AAA swim meet in the 50 butterfly.

She will now compete in Wisconsin on Aug. 1, at the highest level she can in the nation for her age group in USA Swimming.

Baumgartner, an incoming seventh grader at Ada Schools, is 12 years old and will be a part of the State of Ohio Team which will compete in the Central Zone championships.

The USA Central Zone Swim Championships is an All-Star format held each August where athletes represent their Local Swimming Chapters (LSCs).  

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