BLUFFTON__The Bluffton High School softball team lost 7-4 to visiting Elida on a chilly Monday evening, April 6.
The Bulldogs led 4-3 after six innings, then plated three big runs in the top of the seventh to give themselves some breathing room. Bluffton scored once in the home seventh, but came up three short.
The Pirate girls fell to 1-2 with the non-league defeat. Elida improved to 2-2 after the win.
FINDLAY__The Bluffton High School track and field teams opened their season by competing at the rugged Liberty-Benton Relays meet on Thursday, April 2.
Grove won the girls meet with 112 points, with Fremont Ross second (88). The Pirate girls came in fourth at 61, behind third-place Eastwood (78).
Eastwood won the seven-team boys meet with 84 points, followed by Fremont Ross in second (81) and host L-B third (77).
ADA__Nearly constant rain and an unbeaten foe defeated the visiting Bluffton High School softball team as the Pirates fell to the Ada Bulldogs 9-4 on a warm but wet Tuesday evening, March 31.
Ada jumped ahead with a five-run first inning, held off a Pirate rally and then finished strong with late insurance runs to stay undefeated.
Bluffton fell to 1-1 after the loss to their former long-time Northwest Conference foe. Red-hot Ada improved to 5-0 with the victory.
ADA__The visiting Bluffton High School baseball team lost to local rival Ada 5-4 via a walk-off walk to climax a rainy and warm contest on a very wet Tuesday evening, March 31, at War Memorial Park.
The close game featured five lead changes, and neither team ever led by more than one run in the rivalry battle.
The Pirates trailed 3-2 after five frames, but went ahead by plating two runs in the top of the sixth inning.
PANDORA__A huge first inning outburst led the visiting Bluffton High School girls softball team to an 18-4 shellacking of local non-league rival Pandora-Gilboa in the season opener on a warm evening Monday, March 30.
The Pirate girls pushed across a whopping total of 11 runs in the first inning to start their campaign off strongly. They scored two runs in the second, plated one in the fourth and added four tallies in the fifth to invoke the 10-run mercy rule.
