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Twenty-eight teams participated in the 16th annual Boy's Basketball Tournament hosted by BFR Sports & Fitness the weekend of March 5-6.

Winners were: Wapakoneta Redskins 4th Grade, Upper Sandusky Rams 5th Grade and Arlington Red Devils 6th grade.

Schools represented in the tournament included: Ada, Allen East, Arlington, Bath, Bethel, Bluffton, Columbus Grove, Elida, Findlay, Liberty Benton, McComb, Ottawa, Pandora-Gilboa, Riverdale, Spencerville, St. Anthony, St. Charles, Upper Sandusky, Waynesfield and Wapakoneta.

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The Bluffton University baseball team fell twice to Mount St. Joseph, 6-0 and 14-3, on Saturday, March 26, in Heartland Conference action. The Beavers slipped to 7-10 on the season and 0-3 in the HCAC, while MSJ improved to a perfect 3-0 in the HCAC and 10-7 overall.

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Banjo and guitar player and singer Matt Brown will perform in concert at 7 p.m., Friday, April 1, in the third floor of the Bluffton town hall in the Town Hall Concert Series, according to Wendy Chappell-Dick, of the village cultural affairs committee.

Opening for Brown are the Bluffton High School Fiddlers, an after- school club.

The performance is free and open to the public. Donations are accepted.

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Jesse Henry and the Royal Tycoons will perform in the back room at Tu Pueblo Mexican Restaurant, 142 N. Main St., at 8 p.m., Saturday, April 2.

The largely original compositions are a stylistic mixture of blues, jazz, jug band, and folk performed with vibraphone, guitars, saxophone, harmonica, drums and more.

This group debuted at the 2009 Columbus Community Festival (ComFest) where they generated crowd enthusiasm the stage manager claimed to have never seen in the 20 years she had been managing the stage.

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Eagles Scores bowled on: March 19
Boys High Game
Jayden Foltz 160
Jayden Foltz 145
Kaden Reneker 144
Danny Klingler 130

Girls High Game
Molly McCracken 126
Molly McCracken 114
Sierrah Foltz 96
Ashleigh King 90

Boys High Series (2 games)
Jayden Foltz 305
Kaden Reneker 249
Casey McGuire 226
Danny Setzer 221

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The Bluffton fifth grade quiz bowl team recently won the Allen County fifth grade quiz bowl tournament. Members of the team (not in standing order) are: Brayton Businger, Braden Conrad, Christian Groman, Christopher Harnish, Nate Staley, Nate Reynolds, Will Grace, Conor Greer, Karis Wilson and Sydney Hoff. Holly Bertka is the team coach.

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