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.
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.
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).
By Cort Reynolds
Ada sisters Mackenzie (left) and Miranda Wills faced off in the finals of the annual Lima Area Tennis Association city tournament in late June
Mackenzie, a junior for the Ohio Northern University women's tennis team, won the sisterly championship match 6-3, 7-5 to take the title.
Miranda is an incoming junior at Ada and made districts for the 14-5 Bulldog tennis team this past spring.
