By Cort Reynolds
WAYNESFIELD - The Ada baseball team went to Waynesfield-Goshen and came away with a convincing 7-2 victory in a non-conference battle Tuesday evening.
The win upped the Bulldog record to 2-3 and stopped a three-game losing skid.
Ada led 3-2 after scoring single runs in each of the first three innings. The Bulldogs lengthened their lead to 5-2 with two runs in the top of the fourth frame.
In the sixth inning, the purple and gold added two more insurance runs to put the game out of reach.
WAYNESFIELD - The visiting Ada softball team blasted three home runs and banged out a season-high 18 hits to crush Waynesfield-Goshen 17-5 in a non-conference game Tuesday evening.
Ada improved to 5-1 with their fourth victory in a row. The explosive Lady Bulldog offense has plated 33 runs in their last two wins, and they scored in every inning at W-G.
The Bulldogs jumped ahead with four runs in the first inning, then put it well out of reach with back-to-back five-run frames in the fifth and sixth.
Ohio Northern got a slew of outstanding pitching performances in a 4-3, 2-0 baseball sweep Baldwin Wallace on a chilly Tuesday afternoon at Wander Field.
The Polar Bears improve to 18-6 overall and are 6-2 in the Ohio Athletic Conference after extending their winning streak to seven games.
The Yellow Jackets fall to 17-9, 3-5.
Junior Luke Klinehoffer (Zanesville/John Glenn) picked up his 100th career base hit and freshman Scott Beaton (Novi, Mich.) picked up a 4-inning save to lead ONU in the Game 1 win.
For the ninth time in her career, ONU senior Emily Richards (Delaware/Hayes) has been named the United States Track and Field and Cross Country Coaches Association Division III Women's Track National Athlete of the Week.
The senior also earned the honor for the second consecutive week and the fifth time this season.
Richards earned the honor after competing in the 800-meter run at the 39th Annual Sun Angel Classic hosted by Arizona State this past weekend.
ONU junior Andrew Markell (Missouri City, Tex./Ridge Point) and sophomore Cameron Marous (Brecksville) swept the Ohio Athletic Conference Men's Lacrosse Athlete of the Week awards.
Markell was named the OAC Defensive Athlete of the Week for the second consecutive week, while Marous earned the OAC Offensive Athlete of the Week honor for the second time this season.
Markell allowed only one goal in 80:12 of action and stopped five of six shots on goal in Northern's two victories during the week.
