The Bluffton University baseball team is off to their best start in school history through six games after a doubleheader sweep of Muskingum University on Tuesday, March 5, 2013. Bluffton kept the Muskingum bats in check in game one, rolling to a 4-0 victory. The Beavers broke a tie late in game two to pull away for a 9-5 win.
The Bluffton University softball team kept the bats rolling with wins over Concordia University-Chicago and Geneva at the Rebel Spring Games on Monday, March 4, 2013. The Beavers took care of Corcordia in five innings before dropping 2012 PAC champion Geneva College 6-2 under the lights.
Following the same script they used on Sunday, Bluffton jumped out on top of Concordia with four runs in the opening frame. Katie Clark (New Palestine, Ind.) singled up the middle with two outs to start the rally.
The Bluffton University Beavers powered through their second day in Florida with a doubleheader sweep of the Finlandia University Lions on Monday, March 4, 2013. The Bluffton baseball team convincingly won both games, taking the first, 8-0, and the second, 14-6.
Phil Snider, a pastor, writer and teacher from Missouri, will visit Bluffton University for a March 12 forum on the rapidly changing nature of social media and its implications for building communities and making a difference in the world.
Snider will speak at 11 a.m. in Founders Hall on “Emerging from Facebook: Community, Justice and Religion in a Digital Age.” His presentation is free and open to the public.
Bluffton University art majors Amanda Huston of Mount Blanchard, Ohio, and Lauren Faris of Elida, Ohio, will display art they have created at Bluffton during their senior exhibition, from March 11-22 in the Grace Albrecht Gallery in Sauder Visual Arts Center.
The exhibit is free and open to the public, as is a reception for the artists from 1 p.m. - 3 p.m. Sunday, March 17. Gallery hours are 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. weekdays and 1p.m. - 5 p.m. Saturday, March 16, and Sunday, March 17.
The Bluffton University softball team blew open the doors on its 2013 season with an 8-0 mercy-run victory over Illinois College and a 9-4 win over Beloit College on Sunday, March 3, at the Rebel Spring Games. Bluffton's offense hit .423 for the day and pounded three dingers in the five-inning pasting of the Illinois Lady Blues.
