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By Cort Reynolds
Five Ada boys soccer players earned All-North Central Ohio Soccer Association honors recently in voting by the league coaches.

Bulldog senior midfielder Isaac Spar was voted first team All-NCOSA.

Senior midfielder Skyler Williams, and junior forward Jacob Poling earned second team all-league notice. Poling was the Bulldog leading scorer. 

Ada seniors Nick Kamatali (MF) and Wyatt Rettig (D) were voted honorable mention All-NCOSA.

Nick McCracken of Van Buren was voted NCOSA Player of the Year. Dylan Beck was voted league Coach of the Year.

Ada ended up 8-8-1 overall and fourth in the six-team NCOSA.

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Ella Marshall, Ada band drummer, was part of the Ada Kiwanis Halloween parade on Monday. Check out all the Halloween photos and a parade video by clicking here.

Just look at our Halloween photos...pirates, super heroes, Dorothy from the Wizard of Oz and Scarlet from Gone with the Wind

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DON'T MISS THE PARADE
VIDEO AT THE BOTTOM!

ADA'S FAMOUS PEOPLE - PART 2 - It was a captive audience of young and long-time Ada residents, all dressed up for a party.

Click here for Part 1 with lots more photos.

Behind the police station, of all places. Of course, that only means it's the line up for the annual Ada Kiwanis Club Halloween parade.

The Icon loves captive moments like this one. We meet lots of interesting folk. There were lots of movie characters, who you will see below.

The little girl twirling in her blue skirt

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Note: Here's an Ada Halloween story. Leland Crouse alerted the Icon about it, which was originally posted in Betty Miller's Small Town Sampler on Oct. 24, 1990. 

Sitting in a group of friends one of the ladies brought up a story about seeing a ghost at her downtown apartment. I had to hear the whole story and went to visit my friend.

My friend’s husband bought a building in Ada. For several years the couple had lived on the second floor apartment while they remodeled the third floor, a former lodge hall where meetings and entertainment were held from 1905 until sometime in the 1940s.

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By Cort Reynolds
The Ada football team can salvage a disappointing season with an upset of backyard arch-rival Allen East Friday in the regular season finale.

A Bulldog victory would deprive AE (8-1, 5-1 NWC) a share of the league title, and possibly also a playoff spot. 

On the other hand, with a victory AE will grab at least a share of their first conference title since 1995 - and clinch its first playoff berth in 13 years.

The Mustangs won 20-14 at home vs. Crestview in week nine to stay in a three-way tie for the league lead with two-time defending champion Spencerville, and 2018 co-champion Columbus Grove. 

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Senior All-American Chelsea Huppert (Bremen, Ind.) had 12 kills and five blocks and senior Sydney Bapst (Grove City) had 11 kills to lead No. 10-ranked Ohio Northern in a 26-24, 22-25, 25-12, 22-25, 15-13 loss to Otterbein on Tuesday night at the ONU Sports Center.

The Polar Bears (22-5 overall, 7-1 OAC) also got nine kills and five blocks from freshman Madison Kern (Loveland/Mount Notre Dame).

The Cardinals (22-5, 6-2) were led by Dasha Bruyako with a career-high 22 kills, Emily Shuk with 18 kills, Amber Greeley with 17 kills and Tate Eppard with 10 kills and 10 blocks.

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