DELPHOS--The Bluffton High School football team grabbed an early lead but lost to rival Delphos Jefferson 27-7 in a Northwest Conference competition on October 14.
The loss put Pirate playoff status in jeopardy and also ended any chance of sharing the conference crown.
Bluffton fell to 5-4 overall and 4-2 in the league with the costly defeat. They will need a week 10 upset over visiting Columbus Grove to tie for second place in the NWC, and likely need that victory just to make the playoffs.
Pirate boys place 3rd; Essinger is 2nd in girls race
By Cort Reynolds
Bluffton High School senior Landon Armstrong won the 59-runner male race to lead the Pirate boys cross country team to third at the six-team Northwest Conference title meet Saturday morning at Columbus Grove on October 15.
Most remarkable of all mounds in Ohio
The most remarkable of all mounds in the State was one in Hardin County, in which were found about three hundred skeletons. A doubt has, however, been expressed that these were all Mound Builders skeletons.