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At the Icon home office, the clematis are in bloom. Due to weather conditions or benign neglect, this plant has triple its usual flowers. Hooray for Bulldog and Beaver purple. 

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By Cort Reynolds

Three players from the highly successful Ada softball squad were named first team All-Blanchard Valley Conference in voting recently conducted by the league coaches.

Overall, five senior Bulldog girls and one sophomore were honored by the league. The 2025 team set an Ada program record for wins in a season with 22, and placed third in the 11-team BVC. 

JENNA BASSSITT
Bulldog senior pitcher/leadoff hitter Jenna Bassitt was named first team all-conference for the fourth straight year. Her initial three first team all-league seasons occurred while Ada was a member of the Northwest Conference. 

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By Cade Baughman, Student Pharmacist and Karen L. Kier, Pharmacist
ONU Healthwise Pharmacy

Cramping your style is an idiom used when you are asking someone if your activity is preventing them from acting naturally or enjoying their time. The idiom is believed to have started in the early 1900s as a saying to impede or restrict one’s actions or expression. The word cramp was used intentionally due to the pain caused by leg cramps. Leg cramps can definitely restrict your actions and style. 

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Ada’s Green 2nd team All-BVC

  • / June 12, 2025

BY CORT REYNOLDS

Ada senior shortstop Levi Green was named second team All-Blanchard Valley Conference in voting recently conducted by the league baseball coaches.

Green batted .412, stole a team-high 24 bases, hit five doubles and led Ada in runs as well.

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  • / June 11, 2025

By Paula Pyzik Scott

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