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The Bluffton University football team rallied from a 17-0 halftime deficit to defeat host Kalamazoo 21-20 on Saturday, September. 18. Zachary Nobis (Bryan) connected with Laurenz Johnson (Huber Heights/Wayne) with 30 seconds remaining for the thrilling come-from-behind win. The Beavers improved to 2-1 on the season, while Kalamazoo slipped to 1-2.

On Friday afternoon, Sept. 17, the Beavers lined up to race on Cedarville's cross country course at the 2021 All-Ohio Championship Race. While there was a varsity and an open race that day, both Bluffton's men's and women's teams competed in the varsity race. The hot mid-day weather, gradual hills and little shade made for a tough race.

The Bluffton University men's soccer team continued its outstanding start to the season with a convincing 3-0 shutout of Thiel College on a sunny Saturday, Sept. 18, 2021. It marks the first 3-1 start since 1989 and only the third time in school history that the men have opened with a 3-1 mark.

The Beavers also etched their name in the record books as the first squad to take a spotless home mark into Heartland Conference play.

By Cort Reynolds

The Bluffton High School cross country teams competed at the Ottawa-Glandorf Blue/Gold Invitational meet Saturday, September 18.

The Pirate boys finished eighth in the 17-team Blue Division boys race. Holgate captured first with 62 points, followed by Van Wert (75) and host O-G (103).

Junior Landon Armstrong led the Pirates by finishing seventh in a time of 17:40.488.

Senior Hunter Wasnich of Wauseon crossed the line first in the boys race with a time of 16:47.129.

 

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On September 15 Bluffton University faculty and staff brought pets to campus for students to give a hug or a pet.

by Robert McCool

What do you get when you mix an Ex-President and the Grand Master of Pop fiction?

You get a pretty good read.

Regardless of what you think of Bill Clinton as a President, and even though as a man he was a womanizing scoundrel, he knows the inner workings of Washington, DC.

Regardless of what you think of James Patterson as an author who doesn't write many of his books, he knows how to write well when he chooses to do so.

Put them together and you get one heck of a political thriller, packed with non-stop action from the very start to the very end.

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