The Bluffton University baseball team played like it was sunny and 70 on Sunday, March 28. Bluffton hammered Franklin 15-5 in six and a half innings in game one before the visiting Grizzlies earned a split with a 9-1 victory in the nightcap. The Beavers moved to 3-11 on the season and in the HCAC while Franklin stands at 7-5 on both accounts.
The Bluffton University football team was back in action on a sunny Saturday, March 27, as the Beavers welcomed Franklin College to Salzman Stadium.
Bluffton entered the contest with a record of 3-1 as they looked to rebound from their only loss of the season at Hanover last week. Franklin came into Saturday's game with a 2-1 mark, their only blemish a 56-19 shellacking at the hands of MSJ last week.
Here are updates on Bluffton University baseball and softball games.
Baseball
The Bluffton University baseball team split a pair of two-run games at Hanover College on Saturday, March 27, 2021. Hanover took game one (6-4) and Bluffton bounced back with an 8-6 victory in the capper. The Beavers moved to 2-10 overall and in the conference, while Hanover stands 7-5 on both accounts.
During Bluffton University’s annual Keeney Peace Lecture, Rev. Dr. Jack Sullivan Jr. called on members of the campus community to “courageously use their resources, platforms and privilege to disrupt and dismantle policies that discriminate and decimate.”
Sullivan, an ordained minister, executive director of the Ohio Council of Churches and anti-death penalty activist, shared the message during the March 9 Forum, “The Transformative Stardom of Ordinary People.”
Bluffton University freshman Montez Archer Jr. (Detroit, Mich./Martin Luther King) has been named the HCAC Player of the Week for the third straight time on March 23.
Archer earned Special Teams Player of the Week for the second consecutive week after two straight Defensive Player of the Week honors.
Archer returned six kickoffs for 190 yards on Saturday, including a 78-yarder at the end of the first quarter that set up Bluffton's first touchdown.
Bluffton University has selected Ben Rath as its head men’s and women’s swimming and diving coach, an intercollegiate program to start in the 2021-22 academic year.
Rath graduated from the University of Findlay in December 2018 with a bachelor’s in Sports Business Analysis. He also served as the team captain on Findlay’s men’s swimming and diving team for two years and was named the 2018 Great Midwest Athletic Conference Male Athlete of the Year and the 2018 GMAC/MEC Male Swimmer of the Meet.
