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The Ohio Northern Polar Bear baseball team takes on Washington University in the first round of the NCAA Tournament, hosted at Adrian College!

The first game is on Friday, May 16.

CLICK gallery to enlarge and view at your own pace. PHOTO 1) AHS 2025 4x100 team, from left: Trevor McGue, Gavin Oldfield, Kayleb Hickman and Logan Jolliff. PHOTO 2) AHS 1980 relay team, from left: Jon Fields, Chuck Castle, Doug Elliott and Kurt Massillo

By Cort Reynolds

ADA - A 45-year old Bulldog varsity track record fell at the annual Ada Invitational meet Saturday in War Memorial Stadium.

By Cort Reynolds

The Ada High School boys baseball team was seeded eighth at the Div. VI Northwest 2 Coldwater sectional/district drawing Sunday.

The Bulldogs (4-15) will play at top seed Marion Local (11-5) Saturday, May 24 at noon.

The winner advances to the district semifinals Wednesday, May 28 at 5 p.m. against the victor between third-seeded Columbus Grove (11-9) and sixth seed Perry (13-4).

St. Henry (11-7) was seeded second in the eight-team district, and will host seventh seed Parkway (7-14) May 24 in their opening round bout.

By Cort Reynolds

ADA – Ada High School hosted its annual 16-team Invitational track and field meet at War Memorial Stadium on a sunny Saturday, May 10.

Bluffton won the boys and girls team titles. The Pirate girls easily outscored second-place Spencerville, 146 points to 84. Van Wert was third (74), while Ada finished 13th with 19 points.

The Bluffton boys took first with 151 points, far ahead of second-place Van Wert (69). Mohawk and Arlington tied for third with 61 points. The Ada boys were eighth with 37 points.

Ada senior Logan Jolliff finished third in the 100-meter dash to post one of the top Bulldog boys showings.

PHOTOS by Mark Andreasen / CLICK to enlarge and view at your own pace

By Cort Reynolds

KENTON – The visiting Ada softball team defeated Hardin County rival Kenton 13-3 in a run-rule shortened bout on a cool Thursday evening, May 8.

The Bulldog girls broke the game open with five runs in the third inning. They tallied six more runs in the fifth to invoke the 10-run mercy rule.

The Bulldogs improved to 18-3 overall with the five-inning, non-league victory. With that 18th win, Ada tied the program record for wins in a season set last year.

PHOTOS by Mark Andreasen / CLICK on gallery to enlarge and view at your own pace

By Cort Reynolds

KENTON – The visiting Ada baseball team lost 6-3 to county rival Kenton on a cool Thursday evening, May 8.

Ada tied it up 1-1 in the third inning, and led 3-2 after tallying two more runs in the fifth.
But Kenton knotted it up 3-3 with a run in the fifth.

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