Only 10 points separated the Ada/Lost Creek swim team from a second place finish in the Western Ohio Aquatics League championship meet on July 13-14 in Blufton.
The individual results of the entire meet are in an attachment at the bottom of this story. Ada/Lost Creek's code is A/LC.
The Ada/Lost Creek Gators finished third in the eight-team Western Ohio Aquatics League (WOAL) meet held July 13-14 at the Bluffton Community Swimming Pool. Ada was only 10 points behind second-place Wapak.
Team results follow:
1 - Westside 2,443
2 - Wapakoneta 1,958 3 - Ada Lost Creek 1,948
4 - Shawnee Country Club 1,685
5 - Sherwood 1,278
6 - Bluffton 1,025
7 - Van Wert 1,001
8 - Kenton 705.5
Watch later this week for Ada's individual results.
Six members of the Ohio Northern University athletics family will be inducted into the University’s Athletic Hall of Fame on Friday, Oct. 5, as part of ONU’s Homecoming weekend.
They will be inducted that Friday during a banquet in Ohio Northern’s McIntosh Center and introduced Saturday, Oct. 6, before the ONU football game at Dial-Roberson Stadium.
The Ohio Northern wrestling team will open its 2012-13 season on Nov. 17 at the Olivet (Mich.) Duals tournament.
The Polar Bears, under 25th-year head coach Ron Beaschler, will open their home schedule on Dec. 1 with the 32nd annual ONU Invitational.
Northern will begin the defense of its Ohio Athletic Conference Regular Season title on Jan. 15 with a home dual meet against Muskingum.
ONU will also travel to Mount Saint Joseph, Washington & Lee (Va.) and NCAA Division I foe Davidson (N.C.) for non-conference duals and will compete in tournaments at Indianapolis, Ind., Williamsport, Pa., Alma, Mich., and Wheaton, Ill.
Blanchard Valley Hospital Rehab & Sports Medicine, along with the Hancock Park District and the Hancock County Convention and Visitors Bureau, is sponsoring the 3rd Annual Flirt with Dirt 5K Trail Run/Walk on Saturday, July 14 at Riverbend Recreational Area in Findlay. Registration will begin at 7:30 a.m., the trail race will start at 8:30 a.m. and the walk will begin at 8:40 a.m.
The course for the event is on wood chipped and grass trails with short stretches of asphalt throughout the park area. This is a USA Track & Field certified course.
Awards will be given to the top three male and female runners in each age division.
