Junior Patrick Angle completed 21-of-26 passes for 276 yards and three touchdowns and ran 10 times for 32 yards and another score to lead the Ohio Northern football team to a 52-10 win at Wilmington on a warm and windy Saturday afternoon at Williams Stadium.
The Polar Bears improve to 5-4 overall and are 4-4 in Ohio Athletic Conference play, while the Quakers fall to 0-9, 0-8.
Sophomore Devon Price caught eight passes for 128 yards and a TD and sophomore Justin Magazine carried 16 times for 48 yards and a pair of scores for the Polar Bears.
Senior Josh Bryan had a team-high 7 tackles and a pass break up to lead the Ohio Northern defense.
By Dusty Donley
For the second time in three weeks, the Ada High School football Bulldogs marched into Stadium Park and defeated the Wildcats of Delphos Jefferson. Led by stand-out senior Matthew Wilcox, the seventh-seeded Bulldogs scored 12 fourth quarter points to bring home a hard fought 27-22, Division VI first round victory over the second-seeded Wildcats.
Division VI – Games at 7:30 p.m. Friday, Nov. 15
Home Teams Listed First. Regional Finals are Fri., Nov. 22
Region 19
1 Kirtland (11-0) vs. 5 Louisville St. Thomas Aquinas (9-2) at Hudson Memorial Stadium, Murdough Field
2 Canfield South Range (11-0) vs. 3 Mogadore (10-1) at Minerva Dr. Robert H. Hines Stadium
Region 20
1 Defiance Tinora (10-1) vs. 5 Haviland Wayne Trace (10-1) at Lima Stadium 7 Ada (8-3) vs. 6 Convoy Crestview (9-2) at Wapakoneta Harmon Field
Ada defeated Delphos Jefferson 27-22 at Delphos on Nov. 8 to advance to the second round of football playoffs.
PHOTOS AT BOTTOM OF STORY
Donald Traxler photographed the first three Ada TDs and the inteception that became a 98-yard TD.
First TD - Spencer Archer
Second TD - Austin Dumbaugh, caught a pass on fourth down
Third TD - Matthew Wilcox, quarterback scores
Fourth TD - Matthew Wilcox intercepts a Delphos pass and returns it for a TD
By Dusty Donley
Coming off their biggest win of the season last week in Delphos, the Bulldogs couldn't survive a ferocious second half Thunderbird surge last Saturday night, losing a tough, non-conference battle to a solid Lima Central Catholic squad, 34-20. The loss moves Ada to 7-3 on the season and sends the Bulldogs to Stadium Park for the second time in three weeks, facing a first round playoff rematch with Delphos Jefferson.