2016 is Bluffton High School’ year for soccer in the Northwest Conference. Both boys’ and girls’ team won NWC titles and finished unbeaten in conference play. And, the all-Northwest Conference teams are loaded with Pirates.
Boys’ soccer
Senior Antony Kingsley, was named the 2016 boys’ soccer Northwest Conference Player of The Year and boys’ coach Steve Smucker was named Coach of the Year.
Kingsley was a unanimous selection as player of the year in a vote where coaches could not vote for their own players.
"Speaking the Truth in Love: Understanding and Engaging Islam and Our Muslim Neighbors" is the theme of a four-session study taking place this fall at English Lutheran Church.
"There are so many wide-ranging stereotypes and misconceptions about Islam and Muslims in our culture right now," says Rev. Kevin Mohr, pastor of English Lutheran Church.
Joan Lou (Clymer) Bauman, 84, formerly of Bluffton and Rawson, OH, died at 8 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 12, 2016, in her home in Indianapolis. She was born October 8, 1932 to the late Dale and Grace (Dietz) Clymer.
Interested in taking a cold moon star walk? How about participating in the Great Backyard Bird Count?
Those events plus several others are planned this winter by The Quarry Farm Nature Preserve and Conservation Farm, rural Pandora, according to Anne Coburn-Griffis, of the Farm.
The fall newsletter, attached at the bottom of this story provides additional details of programming.
Anna Hairston, a Bluffton University senior from Ontario, Ohio, will discuss “Deficiency: Situational and Generational Poverty in America Explored through Art” at 11 a.m. Tuesday, Nov. 1 in the reading room, Musselman Library. The event is free and open to the public.
Bluffton hosted the Allen East Mustangs for the second time this year in the Division III sectional semifinal game on Tuesday night.
Both teams battled significant wind on Steinmetz Field in front of a packed stadium.
The score was 0-0 at the end of the first half, but the the Lady Pirates managed to land goal 1 at the 33 minute mark of the second half, when Sophomore Averey Rumor played the ball up to Senior Sarah Theisen, who dribbled up field and hit the back of the net.
