Ada junior Maddie Gossard tallied 18 first-half points and the Lady Bulldogs routed visiting Waynesfield-Goshen 54-29 in a girls basketball non-league mismatch Tuesday night. The Lady Bulldogs improved to 6-7 overall with the surprisingly lopsided victory, while the Lady Tigers fell to 6-7 with the defeat.
Ada's own Konnor Baker scored a career-high 29 points and senior Devon Allen (Lima/Senior) made five free throws in the final 17 seconds of overtime to lead the Ohio Northern men's basketball team to an 84-78 victory at Heidelberg on Wednesday evening at Sieberling Gymnasium.
The Polar Bears improve to 9-7 overall and stay in first place in the Ohio Athletic Conference at the midway point of the double round-robin schedule with a 7-2 record.
The Student Princes fall to 6-10, 2-7.
Allen finished with 14 points and sophomore Ryan Bruns (Chickasaw/Marion Local) had 10 points and seven blocked shots for ONU.
Senior Amauria Campbell (Cincinnati/Summit Country Day) scored a career-high and game-high 14 points to help the No. 9-ranked Ohio Northern women's basketball team stay undefeated and defeat Heidelberg 82-49.
The Polar Bears improve to 16-0 overall and 9-0 in the Ohio Athletic Conference, while the Student Princes fall to 6-10, 3-6.
Campbell added six rebounds and two assists in the victory.
Senior Britt Lauck (Lima/Shawnee) tied Campbell with a game-high 14 points four assists and four rebounds for Northern.
Senior Angela Tesny (Medina) grabbed a team-best seven rebounds to lead Northern defensively.
This is a story about the highly successful women's basketball program, an article not filled with lots of stats, the latest score, or where they go from here.
Head coach Michele Durand, speaking at the weekly Rotary Club meeting at the Inn on Tuesday, explained why the program is exceptionally successful. She also described how they recruit top notch players and keep them.
Michele, who also gives a lot of credit to assistant coach Mark Huelsman, said prospective students are recruited with four things in mind:
1. Faith and family
2. Success in academics
3. Basketball talent
in that order.
Senior guard Seth Evans enjoyed a career-best scoring night to lead the host Ada boys basketball team past scrappy Waynesfield 71-68 in a very hard-fought contest Tuesday night.The Bulldogs snapped a six-game losing skid and improved to 3-9 with the non-league victory, while the Tigers dropped to 1-11 following the defeat.
"Evans was definitely a sparkplug; he can shoot," said Ada first-year head coach Dre White. "We knew Waynesfield would give it all they had. Give them credit, they had guys step up and make shots. They made it tough on us and attacked the offensive glass in the first half.
The Ohio Northern men's indoor track and field team will look to compete for an Ohio Athletic Conference title in 2017 under eighth-year head coach Jason Maus. Northern finished second on the conference in both the indoor and outdoor season's a year ago and posted its third consecutive top-3 appearance in the league in both seasons.
Maus welcomes back 22 letterwinners from the 2015-16 seasons. "We like our chances this year in the OAC," said head coach Jason Maus. "We return a nice group from last season and hope to build on the success we had last year."
Here is how the 2017 Polar Bears break down in every event category:
