Kate Witte won her 700th career victory when the ONU volleyball team swept area rival Bluffton Tuesday at the ONU Sports Center. She is the winningest coach in Ohio Northern volleyball history and in the history of the Ohio Athletic Conference.
Witte is now 700-229 in 28 seasons at ONU, an outstanding winning percentage of .753.
"I am just so grateful to be the head coach at such a fine institution as Ohio Northern University,' Witte said. "This is a testament to the quality of women we have had in our program. I love the ladies on the team right now and I love all of the players that have played for me through the years.”
The Ada golf team won a fifth-man tiebreaker to beat Crestiew in a Northwest Conference tri-match Tuesday evening.
Columbus Grove won the match with a total of 175 strokes. Ada and the Knights tied at 208 strokes.
But Ada fifth man Rob Allison shot a 64 to nip the fifth Knight by a single stroke, providing the margin of victory. Will Sharpe and Scott Bowman each shot 65 to tie as fifth man on the Crestview squad.
Ethan Hull posted his career-low for the second straight day, shooting a 46 to pace Ada. Austin Amburgey and Alex Morgan each carded a 53. Brevin Sizemore shot a 56.
Owen Macke of Grove was match medalist with a score of 41.
ADA - The Ada girls soccer team blew out visiting Northwest Conference foe Crestview 10-0 Tuesday evening.
Ada improved to 3-3 overall and 1-1 in NWC play with the lopsided win.
The Bulldogs raced to a 7-0 lead at halftime and rolled to the shutout win. Katie Butterfield scored three goals and Bella East added two to pace the attack.
Butterfield scored the first goal on a breakaway. East made it 2-0 moments later with a 30-yard blast into the net.
Butterfield made it 3-0 with a second goal off a Timberlyn Blankenship pass. East notched her second goal when she chipped in a shot over the Lady Knight keeper's head.
BLUFFTON - The Ada volleyball squad opened defense of its Northwest Conference title with a sweep at local rival Bluffton Tuesday night.
The Lady Bulldog spikers improved to 6-4 and 1-0 in NWC play with a convincing 25-14, 25-19, 25-23 victory. The Pirates fell to 1-6 and 0-1 in league play with the defeat.
Three-time defending league champion Ada extended its NWC win streak to 17 matches as a result of the sweep.
"We played well and it was a good win to start conference play," said first-year Ada head coach Kyleigh Tabor.
By Dusty Donley
In what was a rain soaked, blustery evening in Lima, former N.W.C. powerhouse Lima Central Catholic racked up a 30 point first half lead in route to a 43-20 non-conference victory over the visiting Ada Bulldogs. The loss is Ada’s second straight, dropping the Bulldogs to 1-2 on the 2018 gridiron season.
The Thunderbirds struck first early in the opening period when quarterback Nevan Stolly connected with Shaun Thomas on an 80-yard score. Thomas’s two-point conversion run was good, giving L.C.C. an 8-0 lead with just under three minutes played.
Former All-American and current senior cross country standout Ian McVey was named a U.S. Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association (USTFCCCA) National Athlete of the Week honoree.
McVey claimed the NCAA Division III Men's Athlete of the Week recognition for the second week of competition during the 2018 season. He would be listed among 10 student-athletes representing institutions at the NCAA Division I, II, and III levels and the two divisions of the NJCAA.
The senior is the first student-athlete in Ohio Northern school history to ever receive a USTFCCCA National Athlete of the Week accolade in cross country.
