By Cort Reynolds
SPENCERVILLE - The Ada cross country team competed at the 43rd annual Spencerville Bearcat Invitational Saturday.
The Bulldog boys came in 13th out of 15 teams as Botkins won the title with 38 points. Ada scored 357 points to finish ahead of Ansonia (372) and Sidney-Lehman Catholic (388).
The Ohio Northern women's tennis team opened its 2019-20 season with victories over Defiance and Lourdes in a tri-match at Defiance's Dix Tennis Facility on Wednesday afternoon.
The Polar Bears (2-0 overall) opened the day with a 9-0 victory over host Defiance (0-2), then topped Lourdes (0-1) 8-1.
By Cort Reynolds
ADA - The Ada girls soccer team whipped visiting Northwest Conference foe Paulding 10-0 Thursday evening.
The win improved the Lady Bulldog record to 2-4 overall and 1-2 in the NWC. Paulding fell to 0-5 overall and 0-2 in the NWC with the defeat.
"The majority of the game was played on our offensive end," said Ada head coach Doug Poling. "We dominated shots on goal."
After a scoreless opening 15 minutes, the Bulldogs broke on top when Katie Butterfield scored on a cross from Ella Poling. Poling made it 2-0 moments later when Ella Badertscher played a through ball to her.
By Cort Reynolds
ADA - The host Ada volleyball team lost in four sets to visiting Leipsic Thursday evening.
The Lady Bulldogs fell to 4-4 with the 25-13, 25-20, 20-25, 25-16 defeat.
"We had some momentum heading to the fourth set, but they had too many runs," said Bulldog second-year head coach Kyleigh Tabor. "We couldn't side out. But I am proud of the way we came back in the third set.
"Leipsic has a good team with solid middle and outside hitters," she added. "We were not able to overcome our slow starts."
Ohio Northern senior All-American Chelsea Huppert (Bremen, Ind.) was named the Ohio Athletic Conference Volleyball Player of the Week form her efforts in the 41st AnnuL ONU Invitational Friday at Saturday at the ONU Sports Center.
Huppert led the No. 23-ranked Polar Bears to victories over No. 13 Illinois Wesleyan and Transylvania (Ky.).
Northern also dropped a 4-set decision to No. 2 Calvin (Mich.) and a 5-set thriller to No. 6 Wittenberg.
