The Bluffton University baseball team was unable to get its offense ignited as Franklin College held off the Beavers 4-2 on Friday, April 5, in the opener of a three-game set with the Grizzlies.
Bluffton slipped to 12-10 overall and 3-5 in the Heartland Conference, while Franklin improved to 10-11 and 3-5 in the HCAC.
After three scoreless frames to open the game, Franklin needed just one single to put two runs on the board in the top of the third. Nick Stoia led off with a base hit to center before Jesse Wilson drew a four-pitch walk.
This week The Icon talked with Makenzy Dauterman, a student in Mrs. Kingsley’s class, Kiera Rieman (Raeburn), Reagan Mittendorf (Armstrong) and Anna Knauss (Bogart).
The Bluffton University softball team swept the Defiance College Yellow Jackets on Thursday, April 4, 2013. The Beavers won the first game, 11-9, and kept it going in game two, winning 12-4 in five innings. With the two wins, the Beavers improved to 13-11 overall and 5-1 in the Heartland Conference, while Defiance College fell to 9-11 overall and 2-4 in the HCAC one day after shocking #5 Trine University, 3-2.
High school students and adults who want to explore the medium of ceramics may do so in “Summer Mud,” a class being offered in June at Bluffton University.
Gregg Luginbuhl, professor and chair of art at Bluffton, will teach the class, which will meet from 6:30-9 p.m. Monday-Thursday for three weeks beginning Monday, June 3. The class will meet in the Sauder Visual Arts Center’s ceramics studio, where students will also be able to work during daytime and weekend hours.
The 2012-13 Bluffton University Artist Series will conclude Thursday, April 25, with a 7:30 p.m. concert by the Toledo Symphony Orchestra in Yoder Recital Hall.
Bluffton University will recognize its top student-athletes at the annual Athletics Awards Forum, at 11 a.m. Tuesday, April 16, in Yoder Recital Hall.
Two awards will be presented during the forum, which is free and open to the public. The top senior male athlete will receive the A.C. Burcky Award, while the top senior female athlete will receive the Kathryn E. Little Award.
“What Are You Known For?” will be the topic of guest speaker Rob Miller, a former basketball coach and college athletics administrator and now a presenter for Proactive Coaching LLC.
The Bluffton University art department will present its 46th annual Juried Student Exhibition from April 15-May 4 in the Grace Albrecht Gallery in Sauder Visual Arts Center.
The exhibition, which is free and open to the public, will showcase work created this academic year by students in university art classes or supervised independent studies.
Gallery hours are 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. weekdays and 1-5 p.m. on Saturdays and Sundays except Saturday, May 4, when the gallery will be open from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Three Bluffton University seniors will compete in the university’s annual C. Henry Smith Peace Oratorical Contest, at 7 p.m. Wednesday, April 10, in Yoder Recital Hall. The event, which also includes a reception, is free and open to the public.
Participating students give a speech of no more than 10 minutes that applies the Christian peace position to an issue of contemporary concern. This year’s presenters, and their speech titles, are:
Bluffton University’s Camerata Singers will release “Promises of God’s Reign,” a CD of music from the group’s 2012-13 repertoire, this spring.
Producing and mastering the CD as part of a senior honors project is Jonathan Luginbill, a music major and a member of Camerata Singers. Luginbill spent last fall semester studying recording techniques at the Contemporary Music Center in Nashville, Tenn. His honors project is titled “Experimentation in Choral Microphone Technique.”
The Ohio Foundation of Independent Colleges has recognized Bluffton University junior Jena Diller for her volunteer work for diabetes awareness and other causes with its 2013 Service-Learning Leadership Award.
Diller, a marketing and communication major at Bluffton, will receive the award during the foundation’s “Evening of Excellence” April 10 in Columbus.
