Sports

Members of the Ohio High School Athletic Association’s Competitive Balance Committee met at the OHSAA office Tuesday, January 31, and came to the consensus that they will continue to study the competitive balance issue, Commissioner Daniel B. Ross, Ph.D., said.

She's a Buckeye. Lydia Guagenti, Bluffton High School senior, signed a national letter of intent today to attend Ohio State University. There she will be a member of the women's track and field team.

She is only the fourth Bluffton High School girl to play athletics in a Big Ten program. Ann Stechschute attended Purdue, Caity Matter attended Ohio State and Carrie Fett attended Purdue.

In addition to completing in team sports, Megan Dunlap, BHS grad, was a cheerleader at Ohio State.

Plenty of all-session and single-session tickets will be available for the 2012 Ohio High School Athletic Association Boys and Girls State Basketball Tournaments, and public sales of tickets for both tournaments will begin soon through Ticketmaster or in person at The Ohio State University’s Jerome Schottenstein Center, the site of both state tournaments that take place in March.

Saturday Morning Junior League
Scores bowled on: Jan.21
Boys High Game
Tyler Snyder 197
Dustin Falk 192
Brady Basinger 178
Kyle Kirkendall 171

Girls High Game
Molly McCracken 106
Ashleigh King 97
Arielle O’Neal 91
Lacey McClain 90

Boys High Series (2 Games)
Dustin Falk 367
Tyler Snyder 363
Brady Basinger 321
Kyle Kirkendall 305

Public all-session ticket sales for the 2012 Ohio High School Athletic Association State Wrestling Tournament begin Monday, Jan. 30, at 10 a.m., and plenty of tickets are expected to be available.

SQ=2011 State Qualifier,
RQ=2011 Regional Qualifier,
PR=Personal Record
By Hannah Chappell-Dick
It didn’t take the Bluffton High School boys’ 4x200m relay team long to capture a victory: a minute and 38 seconds, to be exact. The team beat out Liberty-Benton’s “A” team by a full second to take the division II/III title at The University of Findlay’s High School Invitational on Sunday.

Saturday Morning Junior League
Scores bowled on: Jan.14
Boys High Game
Tyler Snyder 192
Brandon Hemry 186
Brayton Businger 166

Girls High Game
Arielle O’Neal 109
Ashleigh King 85
Amy Marquart 85

Boys High Series (2 Games)
Tyler Snyder 369
Brandon Hemry 332
Kyle Kirkendall 284

Bluffton Diamond Sports spring and summer baseball and softball sign-ups are coming soon. The teams are for boys ages 7-14 and girls 8-14.

The registration form is avilable as a printer friendly attachment at the bottom of this story. Another attachment tells when forms may be turned in.

For more information contact Erinn Prater, 419-369-4191. Forms go to:
Bluffton Diamond Sports
750 E. College Ave.
Bluffton, OH 45817

Bluffton Soccer will hold soccer registrations soon for spring team. Registration forms are due no later than Feb 5. 

Open registration takes place from 6 to 8 p.m., Tuesday, Jan. 31, and Thursday, Feb 2, from 6 to 8 at the middle school. In front of the cafeteria.

Bluffton soccer is a recreational soccer league. It averages 170 players ages 6 to 19 in organized teams. Bluffton teams play other teams across northwestern Ohio in the Black Swam Soccer League, part of the Ohio Youth Soccer Association North.