The Bluffton High School girls basketball team built a big first period lead and held off visiting Lincolnview 60-50 in a Northwest Conference battle Thursday evening, January 20. View at https://youtu.be/I7KBA3bITkY.
The Lady Pirates improved to 13-4 overall and 3-2 in the NWC with the win. Lincolnview fell to 5-11 and 1-4 in the NWC with the loss.
Bluffton led 21-5 after the first period as senior Kylie Monday scored seven points. The Lancers rallied with a 19-12 second stanza behind seven points from Addysen Stevens.
Bluffton University has named Steve Bushre as its next head men’s soccer coach.
Bushre has coached at the collegiate level since 2015. He most recently served as an assistant coach at Indiana University East in Richmond, Ind., where Bushre was responsible for building a large recruiting class for the 2022 season. He also has experience coaching in the Heartland Collegiate Athletic Conference (HCAC), in which Bluffton competes, as a recruiting coordinator/assistant coach for Anderson University. Bushre began his college coaching career as an assistant at Taylor University where he created a junior varsity program.
Bushre will start head coaching duties at Bluffton on Feb. 1.
The Bluffton University women's basketball team rallied for a 69-68 victory at Franklin College on a cold Saturday, Jan. 15, 2022. Bluffton improved to 9-5 overall and 4-3 in the Heartland Conference with its seventh win in the past eight games.
The Bluffton University men's basketball team went on the road after a 14-day break and took down Franklin College 70-65 for its first HCAC victory of the season on Saturday, Jan. 15, 2022. Bluffton improved to 5-7 overall and 1-4 in the Heartland, while Franklin fell to 7-9 and 3-5 in the conference.
The Bluffton High School boys basketball team rallied from a 10-point halftime deficit to nip host Carey 50-49 in a non-conference nailbiter Saturday night, January 15. (Watch at https://youtu.be/FWfVUtZ48cA)
Kyler Kinn canned two clutch free throws with 22 seconds left to give Bluffton a one-point lead. Carey senior Bryce Conti missed a jump shot that would have won the game, but it rattled in and out.
