MEDIA RELEASE__Trinity Lutheran School, 105 Allen Street, Jenera, is welcoming two new teachers.
Katherine Reinke will teach preschool and pre-kindergarten and also teach music for grades 3- 8. She and her husband Robert, who is the new vicar at Immanuel Lutheran Church, Findlay, for a year, moved to Jenera from Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Her hobbies include building LEGO flowers, reading, playing Animal Crossing on Nintendo Switch and being outside.
LIMA__The Bluffton High School boys golf team shot well to win a soggy Northwest Conference triangular match at The Oaks Golf Club on Tuesday, August 18.
The Pirates prevailed by shooting a low team score of 172. Lima Central Catholic was 19 strokes behind at 191. Spencerville finished a distant third at 261 shots.
Bluffton’s Caleb Fifer earned match medalist honors by firing a nine-hole score of 39.
With the decisive wins, the Pirates improved to 4-1 overall and 3-1 in the NWC. The team is coached by Richard Streicher.
WAPAKONETA__The visiting Bluffton High School girls soccer team lost a 1-0 defensive battle to a strong Wapakoneta squad in a non-league showdown on Tuesday night, August 18.
Wapak improved to 2-0 with the win, while the Pirate girls start out 0-1.
The Redskins scored the game’s only goal in the eighth minute. Wapakoneta freshman Maddy Herbst found the back of the net on an assist from Aubrey Prenger with 32:34 remaining in the first half.
BLUFFTON__The Bluffton boys soccer team defeated visiting Botkins 3-1 in a non-league match on Tuesday, August 18 at Steinmetz Field. The team is coached by Dan Lee.
The Pirates improved to 1-1 with the win, while the Trojans dropped o 0-1 with the defeat.
Botkins has made it to the regional semifinals in each of the last two seasons, and has compiled a 33-5-4 over the last two years.
The Bluffton goals were scored by Gavin Amstutz, Emekka Bo Smith and Chase Kelly.
