The Bluffton High School boys cross country team will run on Saturday, Nov. 6 at Fortress Obetz and Memorial Park in the 93rd annual OHSAA cross country state championships.
The team is Landon Armstrong, Trey Boblitt, Isaiah Conley, Sam Derstine, Liam Jordan, Erik Nygaard, Jonah Rehm, and John-Paul Yoder. The coach is Bill Theisen.
Visiting Bluffton forged an early lead but eventually lost 40-14 to Liberty Center in Div. VI, Region 22 first round football playoff action Saturday night, October 30.
Bluffton scored first and led 14-7 late in the second period before things unraveled.
LC scored 20 points apiece in the second and third quarters and tallied the final 33 points to win going away.
Seeded 12th, Bluffton finished its season 5-6 after the defeat.
The Bluffton University football team dropped a 48-12 decision at HCAC-leading Rose-Hulman on Saturday, Oct. 30, 2021. Bluffton fell to 2-6 overall and 1-4 in the Heartland, while Rose improved to 6-2 and a perfect 5-0 in the conference.
With Bluffton trailing 17-0 late in the first quarter, freshman quarterback Blake Rine (Heath/Granville) connected with sophomore Ethan Beringer (Findlay/Carey) from 15 yards out, making it 17-6 with less than a minute to play in the opening stanza.
The Bluffton University men's soccer team made an early Elijah Zimmerman (Archbold) goal stand up for the second straight match as the Beavers knocked out Anderson University 1-0 for their first ever Heartland Conference Tournament win. Bluffton moved to 9-7 on the season and are now assured of the first winning season since the Beavers went 9-8 in 1993. Anderson bows out with an 8-9-2 mark for the season.
The Bluffton University volleyball team saw its 2021 season come to an end in a sweep by Earlham College on Saturday, Oct. 30. The Quakers locked up the number 1 seed for the Heartland Conference Tourney with the victory, improving to 19-5 overall and 8-1 in the conference. Bluffton finishes 10-18 with a 2-7 mark in the HCAC.
Following a 25-6 whipping in the lidlifter, Bluffton pushed the Quakers in a 25-23 setback in set two. Earlham left no doubt with a 25-14 victory for the sweep on Senior Day from Richmond, Ind.
The Bluffton HIgh School boys cross country team finished a strong seventh out of 23 teams in the Div. III regional meet at Tiffin's Hedges-Boyer Park Saturday, October 30, to qualify for the state meet. (See regional boys team scores at bottom of story.)
Pirate junior Landon Armstrong came in seventh place and classmate Erik Nygaard was right behind him in eighth place out of 184 runners, advancing Bluffton boys to the state competition. Armstrong finished in a time of 16:54, with Nygaard right behind him at 16:56.9.
