A workshop to help area professionals sharpen their social media skills will be held from 9:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Saturday, April 8 in the Pharmacy Building.
The cost of the daylong workshop, including lunch, is $150 for professionals ($130 for early registration by April 1) and $35 for current students. The workshop is hosted by the ONU chapter of the Public Relations Student Society of America (PRSSA).
ADA - One out from defeat, the Ada baseball squad tied their season-opening game in the bottom of the seventh, but then fell 8-6 in extra innings to visiting Hardin Northern in their annual county rivalry contest Monday evening.
Bulldog Aaron Everhart drilled a clutch two-out, two-run double to deep right field in the bottom of the seventh to score Jaylin Burkhart and Zach Wilson, tying the contest.
The extra base hit knotted the score at 6-6, but Everhart was called out at third trying to stretch the hit into a triple just after Wilson crossed home with the tying run.
ADA - The Ada softball team scored two runs in their last at bat to nip county rival Hardin Northern 6-5 Monday evening in an exciting season-opener at the local park.
HN had plated two runs in the top of the seventh with the aid of a one-out throwing error to take their first lead of the game, 5-4.
But Bulldog Raina England opened the home seventh with a ringing double over the left fielder's head. Alexis Ennis then stroked a two-strike single to center field.
WAYNESFIELD - The Ada track and field team kicked off its 2017 campaign by competing at the Joe Rider Horn Tiger Relays in Waynesfield this past Saturday.
The Bulldog girls and boys teams each took sixth at the eight-team event.
Colonel Crawford won the boys title with 99 points, narrowly edging host Waynesfield-Goshen (97) and Wapakoneta (95). The Bulldog boys tallied 57 points to nip Allen East (56) for sixth.
Wapakoneta captured the girls crown with 102 points, followed by Colonel Crawford with 97. The Lady Bulldogs scored 58.5 points to finish just behind fifth-place AE (60).
ADA — Senior Rebecca Carman (Bellefontaine) and sophomore Maddy Reed (Lucasville/Piketon) each posted second place finishes to lead the Ohio Northern women's outdoor track and field teams at the Cedarville Invitational on Saturday afternoon.
The Polar Bears improve to 22-3 on the season.
Northern finished fourth in the team standings with 61 points.
In the pole vault, Reed posted a second place finish with a leap of 11' 10.00".
Junior Kelly Wollenslegal and freshman Maggie Krause (Chagrin Falls/Kenston) both tied for sixth in the pole vault with a vault of 10' 4.25".
Junior Matt Molinaro won the 800-meter run in a Div. I-dominated field to lead the Ohio Northern men's track and field team on the final day of the Raleigh Relays.
Molinaro won the race in 1:49.30 and claimed the event to lead ONU.
The junior currently owns the fastest time in the country in the event by nearly three seconds.
Senior Lucas Shumate (Wapakoneta/Spencerville) also competed for ONU in the javelin.
The senior posted a ninth place finish with a throw of 47.47 meters.
