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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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By Cort Reynolds

ADA - The Ada football team will try to bounce back from a disappointing loss at Crestview when they host last-place Paulding in a Northwest Conference must-win contest Friday.

 

Last weekend's 49-21 defeat at Crestview all but eliminated the Bulldogs from realistic NWC title contention. Ada trails league leader Spencerville (4-0) by two full games with three left, and is also a game behind Delphos Jefferson and Crestview (each 3-1).

 

"We didn't play very well," said Ada fifth-year head coach Bob Olwin (31-21) of the loss at Crestview. "Their kids made some plays, we didn't play fast and we looked tentative tackling."

 

Chase Sumner had 9 grabs for 159 yards and two scores

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By Dusty Donley

Both offenses put on a first half show in Covoy last Friday night, but stingy Crestview defense kept Ada out of the end zone in the second half, propelling the Knights to a 49-21 victory.  The tough conference loss drops the Bulldogs to 2-2 in the NWC and 4-3 overall.

The Knights opened the first quarter scoring when Crestview quarterback Drew Kline found Derick Dealey for a 2-yard touchdown.  Dylan Hicks’ extra point was good, putting the Knights in front 7-0 with 7:24 remaining in the quarter.

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