FLORENCE, Ky. - The Bluffton University baseball team traveled to Kentucky for a home game with Mount St. Joseph on Saturday, April 9, but it was the Lions who took advantage of the change of venue with a 9-2 victory in the HCAC series lidlifter. The Beavers fell to 6-16 overall and 1-8 in the Heartland Conference on a bitterly cold Saturday, while MSJ upped its season mark to 16-7 and 5-5 in the HCAC.
Bluffton Lions will sell shopping spree tickets at Community Market on Fridays and Saturdays, April 22-23 and April 29-30.
Each $5 ticket enables the purchaser one ticket in a drawing for a free shopping spree to take place on Saturday, May 7.
Proceeds from the ticket sales go to the Bluffton Lions scholarship fund. Multiple $500 scholarships are given each year to graduating seniors from Bluffton, Pandora-Gilboa and Cory-Rawson schools.
Jenera Trinity Lutheran School’s students will present a journey through the Magical Land of Oz, as they take the stage next weekend in Prairie Fire Children’s Theatre’s original musical production of the “Wizard of Oz."
Performances are at 7 p.m. Friday, April 15, and and Saturday, April 16, at Trinity Lutheran School’s gymnasium. Doors open at 6:15 p.m. Tickets are free, but donations will be welcome at the door to offset costs.
At the helm of the Pirate Ship this year is head coach Tony Rumer. He is entering his fourth season leading the Lady Pirates. In his third year as an assistant coach is Daryl Willis and Adam Burris is back for his second season.
The girls are being led this year by two seniors who bring much needed experience to the team. Both have been varsity starters and earned Pirate varsity letters since joining the team as freshmen. They were members of the 2013 sectional championship team.
James "Jim" Dean Badertscher, 82, died April 8, 2016, at 2:15 p.m. at Mennonite Memorial Home, Bluffton. Jim was born July 17, 1933, in Bluffton to the late Edwin and Mae (Murray) Badertscher. On July 18, 1959, he married Ruth Hankish Badertscher who survives.
Jim retired from Lima Ford Engine Plant after 20 years. He was a member of St. John's United Church of Christ and attended St. Mary's Catholic Church both of Bluffton. Jim was a member of American Legion Post #382, Bluffton, graduated from Bluffton High School, attended Bluffton College and was a U.S. Army veteran.
