By Cort Reynolds
FINDLAY - The visiting Bluffton softball squad swept a high-scoring twinbill at non-league foe Liberty-Benton Saturday.
The wins upped the Lady Pirate record to 6-1.
Bluffton won the opener 8-5 behind the pitching and hitting of Libby Schaadt. In game two, the Pirates held off an eight-run rally by L-B in the bottom of the seventh to preserve a 19-18 victory.
Fred Steiner, Icon editor, is the featured speaker at the Thursday, April 25, spring tea sponsored by the Friends of the Bluffton Library.
The tea is at 5:45 p.m. and tickets are $12 each and must be purchased in advance. The tea is at the library, 145 S. Main St., Bluffton, where tickets are available.
Bluffton Family Recreation offers an assortment of programs for youth through adults in April and May, according to Daniel Tinch, BFR executive director. Many of these programs extend into the summer.
– Open the April/May BFR newsletter attached at the bottom of this story for complete details –
Among programming for youth is a Kid’s Night Out on Saturday, May 4, in coordination with the Bluffton Athletic Boosters reverse raffle.
A large committee of turkey vultures returned to Bluffton in mid-March, hired by the village to handle road kill clean up. These social birds often have wing spans up to six feet. Here's a look at one who spends early morning hours in the woods between Campus Drive and the old college baseball diamond. A series of photos follow.
Here's the Bluffton College men's tennis team in 1942. From left Richard Berky, Jason Tripplehorn, Otto Elmer, H.W. Berky (coach), Darvin Luginbuhl, John Boehr, Robert Simcox and Dale Good.
The squad played the following opponents two times each: Wilberforce, Ohio Northern, Findlay and Bowling Green.
