By Dusty Donley
Fueled by 21 first quarter points, the Ada Bulldogs traveled to Columbus Grove last Friday night and thrashed the Bulldogs 41-14.
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Led by quarterback Seth Conley's 337 yards and 4 touchdowns, Ada's offense scored with relative ease all night. The victory moves the Bulldogs to 3-2 on the season, and 1-1 in the Northwest Conference.
VAN WERT - The Ada cross country team competed in the Van Wert County
Hospital Invitational meet at the VW Reservoir Saturday.
The Ada girls came in 13th out of 15 teams, while the Bulldog boys ended
up 20th out of 20 squads. Ada freshman Abbie James finished a strong 15th
out of 169 female runners to lead the Bulldog girls with a time of 21:37.
The Ohio Northern football team got a tremendous defensive effort and held on a 16-10 victory at Otterbein Saturday afternoon at Memorial Stadium.
The Polar Bears improve to 1-2 overall and are 1-1 in Ohio Athletic Conference play, while the Cardinals fall to 1-2, 1-1.
Senior defensive tackle Scott Rapps (Bay Village Bay) was in the OU backfield all day, finishing with a team-high nine tackles, 5.0 tackles for loss, 1.5 sacks and two huge fumble recoveries for ONU.
Cort Reynolds, Icon sports writer, received a “Best of the Day SB Nation NBA” for a column he wrote titled "Don Nelson: the Celtics’ unlikely multiple-time champion," subtitle: "How a chunky, non-leaping, two-time castoff won 5 rings and played 14 effective seasons in the NBA"
In addition, his “History quiz: Celtics guards of the 1980’s” was also posted.
Lincolnview won the Northwest Conference golf tournament in an 18-hole tournament played at Hickory Sticks Golf Club in Van Wert. The first-place tournament finish also clinched the overall 2016 conference golf championship for the Lancers.
The Lancers had a team total 338 to defeat tournament runner-up Spencerville (361) by 23 strokes. Other tournament team totals were: Columbus Grove (370), Paulding (372), (Bluffton 377), Crestview (388), Delphos Jefferson (401), Allen East (411), Ada (514).