Sports

90 players registered for event

FROM FACEBOOK: From the Bluffton Disc Golf Association: Team Mojo will be hosting their 2026 Bluffton Open this coming Sunday, May 24.

Best of luck to all the players. Probably not a good day to stop out for a recreational round, as there are 90 players competing! See https://www.pdga.com/tour/event/100876 for additional information.

A couple of us did a little mowing and trimming before the storm hit tonight. Hopefully, this keeps the mosquitoes to a minimum.

PHOTOS by Jamie Nygaard

The Bluffton High School girls and boys track and field teams both finished a strong second at the annual eight-team Northwest Conference championship meet on Friday, May 15 in Spencerville.

Photographer Jamie Nygaard captured moments on and off the track. Highlights are above and the full album is HERE.

TOP FINISHES

FROM FACEBOOK_Bluffton Soccer Club is hosting tryouts for its travel soccer program beginning Monday, May 18, at Ebenezer Mennonite Church fields.

Tryout will be for all skill levels with the following schedule and team levels:

Monday, May 18 or Thursday, May 21

6:00 p.m. - Boys U9, U11 and U12

7:00 p.m. - Boys U13 and U14 

Tuesday, May 19 or Friday, May 22

6:00 p.m. - Girls U10 and U11

7:00 p.m. - Girls U12, U13, U14 and U15

By Cort Reynolds

LIMA__The Bluffton High School boys tennis team competed well in the Div. II sectional tournament Thursday and Saturday at UNOH on May 14 and May 16.

On Saturday, the Pirate senior doubles team of Grady Coonfare and Isaiah Kohli survived a tough first set to beat the second-seeded St. Marys team of Jake Ackroyd and Noah White 7-6 (8-6), 6-2 in the sectional finals and win the doubles crown.

Wright sweeps sprints, Matthews dominates distance runs

By Cort Reynolds

SPENCERVILLE__The Bluffton High School girls and boys track and field teams both finished a strong second at the annual eight-team Northwest Conference championship meet on Friday, May 15.

Columbus Grove swept both team titles. The CG girls scored 202 points to finish ahead of the second-place Pirate girls, who scored 140. Lincolnview nipped Spencerville for third, 98-97.

By Cort Reynolds

BLUFFTON__The Bluffton High School baseball team shut out visiting non-conference foe Cory-Rawson 10-0 on Friday, May 15.

The Pirates scored the first run in the bottom of the first inning and tacked on a single score in the second frame. 

Bluffton blew the game open by plating five runs in the home half of the third to build a 7-0 lead. The Pirates pushed across three scores in the fourth inning to invoke the 10-run mercy rule with a shutout a half-inning later.

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