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Fall 2016 Bulldog athletic team schedules on the Icon

Posted by Fred Steiner on Monday, July 18, 2016

Go Bulldogs!

Ada High School's 2016 fall athletic schedules are now on the Icon. The fall schedules are in at attachment at the bottom of this story.

Opening game and matches vary from sport to sport. All varsity teams launch their seasons with home games except for for cross county, which has all meets on the road, and girls' tennis, which opens at Toledo Rogers on Aug. 13. Cross country's first meet is Sept. 3 at the Columbus Grove Invitational.

First games for all other varsity teams, at home, include:

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Melina Woods on AAU volleyball team with third place national finish

Posted by Fred Steiner on Tuesday, July 12, 2016

Ada High School junior, Melina Woods, recently competed in the AAU National Volleyball Tournament at the ESPN Wide World of Sports in Orlando, Florida. She and her teammates from Elite Volleyball Training Center in Plain City, Ohio, placed third out of 114 teams.

Woods and her teammates from 16 Elite Black made it to the semi-finals with a 12-0 record before falling in three sets to the eventual champions from Nebraska.

In four days of play, 16 Elite Black defeated teams from Texas, Washington, South Carolina, California, Michigan, Pennsylvania, North Carolina, and South Dakota.

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Ada third overall in WOAL; Klava Katayama wins four events

Posted by Fred Steiner on Monday, July 11, 2016

Ada Alligators swim team finished third of eight teams in this past weekend’s Western Ohio Aquatic League meet held at Bluffton. In the girls’ standings, Ada finished fifth overall. In the boys’ standings Ada finished third overall.

CLICK HERE FOR ALL WOAL RESULTS

While Ada had several place finishes, two swimmers won first place races. Max Baumgartner, 8 and under, won first in the 25 freestyle.

Klava Katayama won five events in the girls 13-14 age group. She won the 100 intermediate, 50 butterfly, 50 backstroke and 100 freestype.

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Two ONU golfers WGCA all-American scholars

Posted by Anne Pannabecke... on Wednesday, July 6, 2016

By Caleb Scott

Juniors Ariana Tomasula and Jennifer Hipskind have been named Women's Golf Coaches Association All-American Scholars for the 2015-16 golf season.

The criteria for selection to the All-American Scholar Team are some of the most stringent in all of college athletics. The minimum cumulative GPA is 3.50.

Tomasula, an accounting major from Rocky River led Northern with a team-low 87.5 average and five top-10 finishes during the 2015-16 season.

She was also named All-Ohio Athletic Conference and Academic All-OAC.

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Gators prepare for weekend WOAL meet

Posted by Fred Steiner on Wednesday, July 6, 2016

FROM BLUFFTON ICON - With an expected attendance of more than 2,500 people, the Western Ohio Aquatics League (WOAL) swim championships will return to the Village of Bluffton Friday and Saturday, July 8-9. Bluffton is the host site for the WOAL every three years.

“We are excited to be the host pool for the 2016 WOAL swim champs,” said Jennie Wilson, president of the Bluffton swim team. “The WOAL summer swim program has more than 600 swimmers across eight teams, and with these swimmers come families, friends and grandparents.

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Gator and Sardine fan - swimmers on the mark!

Posted by Fred Steiner on Friday, July 1, 2016

A large crowd was on hand Thursday in Ada when the Ada Gators took on the Bluffton Sardines. Here's two views from the top of the slide. (Monty Siekerman photos)

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