McCOMB__The Bluffton High School softball team lost at non-league foe McComb 7-4 on Tuesday, April 13.
The Panthers scored two runs in both the first and second innings to build an early 4-0 lead.
Bluffton plated a run in the top of the fourth, but McComb matched it in the home fourth to maintain a 5-1 advantage.
The Pirates pushed two runs across the plate in the fifth inning to inch within 5-3. The Panthers tallied single runs in the fifth and sixth frames to rebuild the margin to 7-3.
McCOMB__The Bluffton baseball team was tied with McComb 5-5 after seven innings on Tuesday, April 14 when the game was suspended by rain and lightning.
No makeup date to resume play has been set yet.
The Pirates (0-3) are slated to entertain non-conference foe Ottoville (1-5) on Wednesday. The Big Green pounded Pandora-Gilboa 19-3 on Tuesday.
Bluffton (0-1 NWC) then hosts winless league rival Delphos Jefferson (0-7, 0-2 NWC) Thursday.
MEDIA RELEASE__Ohio Governor Mike DeWine and Ohio Department of Children and Youth (DCY) Director Kara Wente today announced a new partnership between DCY and Ohio 211 to expand services to all 88 counties, ensuring every Ohioan can access local community resources no matter where they live. The statewide expansion will be fully implemented by the end of June 2026.
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FROM BSC NEWSLETTER__On Thursday, April 23 at 2 p.m., Dan Groman from the Bluffton Ohio Historical Society, will host a meeting about Bluffton's "museum in the making."
Several exhibits are in the works: John Dillinger gang robbery in Bluffton, Dr. Boyd Travis model trains, interurban railways and the Dixie Highway through Bluffton.
