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 University will recognize its top student-athletes at the annual Athletics Awards Forum, at 11 a.m. Tuesday, April 19, in Yoder Recital Hall. The event is free and open to the public.
Two awards will be presented. Bluffton’s top senior male athlete will receive the A.C. Burcky Award, while the top senior female athlete will receive the Kathryn E. Little Award.
Bluffton University is committed to helping teachers pursue graduate studies in a cost-effective and convenient way through its Master of Arts in Education.
All classes in the program are now offered either online or through video-conference. This means students will have access to Bluffton’s resources no matter where they are or when they log on.
BLUFFTON, Ohio - For the second straight Tuesday, Earlham College used a scintillating pitching performance from freshman Walter Talcott to stymie the Bluffton University baseball team at Memorial Field. Earlham improved to 16-5 and 6-3 in the Heartland Conference with the 6-1 win, while Bluffton fell to 6-15 and 1-7 in the HCAC. Talcott went the distance in a 6-0 shutout just one week ago.
Four Bluffton University musical ensembles will come together Friday, April 22, to present the annual Pops Concert at 7:30 p.m. in Yoder Recital Hall. The event is free and open to the public.
Providing instrumental music will be the university’s Jazz Ensemble and Concert Band, both conducted by Dr. Roy Couch, assistant professor of music.
Dr. Mark J. Suderman, professor of music, conducts both performing choral groups, Camerata Singers and the University Chorale. Accompanying the Chorale’s performance will be Ana Yoder Coulter on piano.
Bluffton University will present “Curtains,” the musical comedy whodunit, for the May Day musical from May 5-7.
Tickets are on sale for the musical comedy by John Kander, Fred Ebb and Rupert Holmes.
Dr. Melissa Friesen, a professor and chair of communication and theatre at Bluffton, will direct the show, to be staged at 7:30 p.m. each evening in Founders Hall.
