Ada runners compete at Kalida
By Cort Reynolds

KALIDA - The Ada cross country team competed at the Wildcat Invitational Saturday morning, with five harriers posting personal-best times at the Kalida Fish and Game Club course.

The Lady Bulldogs finished ninth out of 11 teams while the Ada boys came in 17th out of 19 squads.

"The boys ran with four other conference schools; we fell a little behind Bluffton who took 14th place, while recently defeated Allen East did not have enough boys to place in order to compare our two teams," said Ada coach Josh Klein.

Napoleon won the boys team title with just 23 points to easily out-distance Columbus Grove (111) and Ottawa-Glandorf (117). The Ada boys tallied 495 points.

Jacob Fellers of Napoleon won the boys individual race in a time of 16:23.

Ada boys places, times
80 Eric Armbrecht 20:06
90 Larry Zembower 20:35 (personal pecord)
98 Andrew Ross 21:18 (personal record)
109 Seth Evans 22:46
118 Andrew Robey 23:42 (season record)
123 Brayden Cheney 24:59
124 Brice Ferguson 25:42

"The girls competed against three other conference teams, defeating Paulding," said Klein. "Columbus Grove still proves to be one of the strongest teams in our conference, bringing in first place with only 35 points."

St. Marys finished second in the girls race with 53 points, followed by Napoleon (79). Ada scored 249 points.

Emily Sneeman of LCC took first in the girls race with a time of 18:43.

Ada girls places, times
41 Olivia Ennis 24:32
44 Mara Guyton 24:57 (personal record)
45 Alexis Ennis 25:12 (personal record)
50 Jilian Wolber 26:17 (personal record)
69 Nora Dellifield 29:43
70 Danielle Waugh 30:36

Ada runs at the fairgrounds in the Kenton Invitational meet on Thursday, October 6, with the boys race at 6 p.m. and the girls meet at 6:30.

The Bulldogs again run at the county fairgrounds the following Monday, Oct. 10 in the Hardin County meet. The boys race is at 5:30 p.m. and the girls meet starts at 6 p.m.