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By Cort Reynolds

KENTON — Ada sophomore Abbie James took second to pace the Lady Bulldog cross country team at the Hardin County Invitational meet Monday in Kenton.

James finished the 3.1-mile course at the Hardin County Fairgrounds in a time of 21:31.15, behind only meet winner Julie Collier of Riverdale.

The Lady Falcons won the girls meet with 42 points, followed closely by Kenton (44), Hardin Northern (58) and Ada (72).

Kenton won the boys team title over Hardin Northern, 44-53. The Ada boys took third with 56 points, followed by USV (65).

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By Cort Reynolds

FINDLAY - The Ada girls soccer team was seeded 12th at the 13-team drawing for the Div. III Findlay district held Sunday.

 

Ada (5-9) will play at sixth-seeded Ashland Crestview Saturday, October 14 at 5 p.m.

 

The victor will visit second-seeded Liberty-Benton Oct. 18 at 5 p.m.

 

Riverdale was seeded first overall in the district draw.

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By Cort Reynolds

TIFFIN - The Ada boys soccer team was seeded sixth out of 12 teams at the Div. III Tiffin district drawing held Sunday.

 

The Bulldogs (10-4) will host ninth seed Willard on Tuesday, Oct. 17 at 5 p.m.

 

The Ada/Willard winner will advance to the second round Saturday, Oct. 21 at second-seeded Mansfield Christian.

 

The district semifinals will be held Oct. 24 at 7 p.m. at Tiffin Columbian. The district finals are Oct. 28 at Columbian.

 

Van Buren was voted the top seed.

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By Cort Reynolds

OTTAWA - The Ada volleyball team was seeded third at the 13-team Div. IV Ottawa district drawing held Sunday.

 

The Lady Bulldogs (13-7) will host 12th-seeded Temple Christian Monday, October 16 at 6:30 p.m. in a sectional first round match.

 

The winner will advance to face the winner between sixth seed McComb and ninth seed Pandora-Gilboa Thursday, Oct. 19 at 6:30 p.m.

 

If Ada defeats Temple Christian, they will host the McComb/P-G survivor Oct. 19.

 

The second round victor will advance to the Ottawa district semifinals, where they will likely face top-seeded Leipsic on Oct. 24 at Ottawa-Glandorf.

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BEXLEY — The No. 17-ranked Ohio Northern volleyball team used a balanced offensive scoring attack on Friday evening as it swept Capital 3-0 at Performance Arena.

The Polar Bears improve to 17-4 overall and 2-1 in the Ohio Athletic Conference, while the Crusaders fall to 9-13, 1-3.

Sophomores Chelsea Huppert (Bremen, Ind.), Sydney Bapst (Grove City) and McKenna Jordan (Toledo/St. Ursula) paced ONU offensively, with 17, 10 and 10 kills, respectively.

Huppert hit a game-best .519 for the Polar Bears.

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Ohio Northern sophomore Christiaan Williams (Sidney/Anna) has been named the Ohio Athletic Conference Football Offensive Player of the Week.

In Northern's 51-21 victory over Capital on Saturday evening at Dial-Roberson Stadium, Williams broke a 17-year old single game rushing record, compiling 407 yards on 29 rushes.

The sophomore also added three touchdowns in the victory as he broke Ohio Northern Hall of Famer Jamal Robertson's previous single game record of 307 rushing yards.

Williams also caught one pass for five yards, breaking Robertson's single game all-purpose yards record of 406 yards also set in 2000.

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