By Cort Reynolds
ADA - The injury-plagued Ada football team attempts to halt a two-game losing skid when it visits Crestview in week eight.
Last weekend, Crestview was outscored 34-12 in the final 20 minutes to lose 48-25 at home to league-leading Spencerville. The defeat dropped the Knights to 3-4 overall and 2-2 in the Northwest Conference.
Having lost three of its last four games, Ada is 2-5 and 1-3 in NWC action, placing them in a tie for sixth in the eight-team league standings with Bluffton. The Knights are knotted with Paulding in fourth.
Ohio Northern senior libero McKenna Hostetler (Plain City/Alder) was named the Ohio Athletic Conference Volleyball Defensive Player of the Week for the week of Oct. 7-13.
Hostetler helped the No. 11-ranked Polar Bears to a 4-1 record last week.
She paced ONU with 116 digs and six aces in the week.
This marks the second time this season that Hostetler received the honor.
The Polar Bears will return to action Tuesday with a 7 pm OAC match at Wilmington.
The club’s first sign-up are from 7 to 8:30 p.m. tonight (Wednesday, Oct. 16) in the Ada wrestling building. It’s in the brown building in front of the school bus garage.
According to John McClain, coach, “All experience levels from beginner to advances are welcome to participate. The club accepts boys and girls from Ada and all surrounding communities.”
The club is open to youth from Kindergarten through sixth grade. Two additional sign-up dates are:
• Sunday, Oct. 20, 5:30 to 7:30 p.m.
• Tuesday, Oct. 22, 7 to 8:30 p.m.
Ohio Northern sophomore Seth Gundlach (Wilmington) was named the Ohio Athletic Conference Men's Soccer Offensive Player of the Week for the week of Oct. 7-13.
Gundlach scored twice and added an assist as the Polar Bears (11-2-1 overall, 3-0-0 OAC) defeated Muskingum 8-0 on Saturday evening.
This marks the second time this season that an Ohio Northern player was named OAC Player of the Week, as sophomore Levi King (Indianapolis, Ind./North Central) was named Offensive Player of the week on Sept. 30 and sophomore John Lombardo (Solon) was named Defensive Player of the Week on Sept. 16.
Gundlach has six goals, one assist and 13 points this season.
Men’s soccer
The Ohio Northern men's soccer team put on an offensive clinic Saturday night at Kerscher Stadium to extend its win streak to 10 games. The Polar Bears defeated Muskingum 8-0 to improve to 11-2-1 overall and 3-0-0 in Ohio Athletic Conference play.
By Cort Reynolds
VAN WERT - The Ada boys cross country team finished seventh in the seven-team Northwest Conference championship meet at the Van Wert Reservoir Saturday morning.
Columbus Grove repeated as boys team champion with just 23 points. Lincolnview was second (45), followed by Crestview (86), Bluffton (105), Allen East (133), Paulding (143) and Ada (211).
Bulldog sophomore Riley Ferguson came in 67th in the field of 95 runners to register the top Ada showing. He covered the 3.1-mile course in a time of 22:13.8.
Senior teammate Hunter Wells ended up right behind him at 68th in 22:14.3.
