Bluffton boys' champs of inaugural NWC soccer league competition
The Bluffton High School boys' soccer team have several reason to cheer.
• The varisty won the Northwest Conference title at 5-0
• Tucker Routson, senior, was voted the 2015 Northwest Conference player of the year
• Steve Smucker, BHS coach, was selected as NWC coach of the year.
This season was the first-ever season for boys' soccer as a conference sport in the NWC.
Several other Pirates received all-league honors. Tristan Smucker, sophomore, Antony Kingsley, junior, and Cole Harlow, senior, were named the NWC first team along with Routson.
Eli Bourassa, junior, and Josh Begg, junior were named to the second team.
Pirates named honorable mention include Levi Smith, junior, Phillip Tatarkov, junior, and Christopher Harnish, sophomore. Balloting took place during a meeting of the conference boys' soccer coaches held in Delphos.
The attachment below reveals the final league standings and all players receiving all-conference honors.
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