By Grant Pepper
On our way back to Dre White's office we cut through the Ada High School boys' locker room.
It was there, in that locker room, where White wrote the date “February 19, 2016” on the whiteboard last week leading up to the boys basketball team’s first conference game of the season -- a home bout with local rival Allen East last Friday.
He followed that date with a number, “665.” It had been 665 days since that date, nearly two years ago, which was the last time Ada had won a Northwest Conference basketball game.
ADA - Visiting Delphos Jefferson raced to a 25-3 lead and rolled on for a 68-34 win over Ada in a Northwest Conference girls basketball contest Thursday evening.
The purple and gold dropped to 1-6 and 0-3 in the NWC with the defeat, while the Lady Wildcats improved to 7-2 and 2-0 after the win.
Wildcat senior guard Devyn Carder scored eight of her 14 points early as hot-shooting DJ pressed and bombed its way to a 19-3 bulge just over four minutes into the fray.
Ohio Northern is ranked No. 21 nationally among all Div. III schools in the Learfield Directors' Cup Standings.
Northern also ranks first in the standings among all Ohio Athletic Conference schools.
Points are scored in four men's and four women's fall sports relative to their final standings in the NCAA Championships for those eight sports through the completion of the 2017 fall sports.
ONU has scored points this season in men's cross country, women's volleyball, and women's soccer as each team competed in their respective NCAA Tournaments.
RAWSON - Host Cory-Rawson led throughout to post a methodical 63-44 non-league boys basketball win over Ada Wednesday night.
The Bulldogs fell to 2-4 and 0-3 on the road with the defeat, while the Hornets improved to 3-3 with the victory.
Ada trailed 16-10 after one period of play. The Hornets widened their lead to 36-21 at the half and stretched it to 51-32 heading into the fourth quarter. Both teams scored 12 in the final stanza to keep the final margin at 19.
Sophomore wing Phillip Coulson led Ada with 12 points. Bulldog junior post Connor Frazier added 10 points, seven rebounds and two assists.
GRANVILLE — Junior Ryan Bruns' (Chickasaw/Marion Local) second consecutive double-double led the Ohio Northern men's basketball team to a 93-64 road victory at Denison on Wednesday evening at Livingston Gymnasium.
The Polar Bears improve to 6-3 overall, while the Big Red drop to 6-4.
Bruns led all scorers with a 34-point effort and pulled down a game-high 10 rebounds to lead the team defensively.
The Ohio Northern women's basketball team is ranked No. 14 in the fourth weekly D3Hoops.com coaches poll after jumping one spot in the poll released. After falling in its season-opener, the Polar Bears (8-1 overall, 4-0 OAC) have won eight straight.
