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The following results are from April 16-22 of the Ohio Northern University 2025 athletics season:

Coach Stechschulte picks up 300th career win as Baseball splits a pair at Capital

Junior Robbie Reed joins the 100-Hit Club as Baseball posts 13-3 victory over Bluffton

Men's Golf wraps up regular season with third place finish at Otterbein Easter Leftover Tournament

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The Ada Gators Summer Swim Team is taking registrations for summer 2025 at https://linktr.ee/adasummerswim

Participants also need to attend one of the two parent meetings to finish the sign up process:

May 7 or May 12
6:00-7:00 p.m.
Ada First United Methodist Church.

Any questions, please contact Stephanie Emerick at 419-516-0620 or Amy Dennis at 419-302-5641.

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It's a garage sale weekend! Send classifieds to [email protected]

Yes, the Icon's garage sale ads are FREE on both BlufftonIcon.com and AdaIcon.com! AND they include a pin on our combined Garage Sale Map at https://bit.ly/3JaYCaq_ICON_GS

Ads are limited to the Bluffton+ area including Arlington, Beaverdam, Columbus Grove, Jenera, Mt. Cory, Rawson and Pandora, and the Ada+ area including Alger, Dola, Dunkirk, McGuffey and Harrod.

Please allow 2-3 days for posting.

If you are a home-based business, ads are $1/day, minimum $10.

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By Cort Reynolds

ADA – The Ada High School boys track and field team won a four-team meet Tuesday, April 22 on a sunny evening at War Memorial Stadium.

The Bulldog boys nosed out Botkins 88.5 points to 84. Allen East was third with 50 points, followed by Delphos Jefferson with 33.5.

Botkins won the girls team title with 95.5 points. The Lady Bulldogs were second with 69 points, followed by AE (47) and Jefferson (29.5).

Bulldog senior Logan Jolliff and junior Kayleb Hickman each won two events to pace the victors. 

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Ohio Northern University is celebrating April—and Earth Day—by becoming even greener.
From www.ONU.edu

ONU’s Donald J. Bettinger Department of Chemistry/Biochemistry recently became a Green Chemistry Commitment Signing Institution, a designation awarded by Beyond Benign, a chemistry education organization.

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Note from editor Paula Pyzik Scott

On March 31, Ada Icon photographer Mark Andreasen found himself at the Ada High School home track tri-meet at War Memorial Stadium. 

The Icon now has a gallery format that does justice to his pictures, so we're taking a step back in time to share them. Click on the photos to enlarge and view at your own pace. 

Read coverage of the event by Cort Reynolds HERE.

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