Jude Spallinger of unbeaten league champion Bluffton was voted Northwest Conference boys soccer Player of the Year in voting conducted recently by the league coaches.
Bluffton juniors Eden Antrim and Justin Good were named first team All-NWC alongside Spallinger.
Pirate juniors Ethan Oglesbee, Luke Shepherd and Nolan Huffman, as well as sophomore Nolan Hoffman, were named second team all-league.
Senior Bryan Zimmerman was named honorable mention all-league.
The Bluffton University men's soccer team fell behind less than two minutes in as RHIT rolled to a 5-1 victory on Saturday, OCt. 23, 2021. Bluffton dipped to 7-7 overall and 3-5 in the Heartland Conference, while Rose improved to 11-4-1 and 8-0 in league play.
Senior Dalton Taynor (Troy/Miami East) provided the loan bright spot for Bluffton on Saturday, netting his 12th goal of the season midway through the second stanza!
The Bluffton University football team fell behind 34-0 on Saturday, Oct. 23, as Hanover moved to 4-3 overall and 3-1 in the Heartland Conference with a convincing 41-10 victory over the Beavers. Bluffton dipped to 2-5 and 1-3 in the HCAC.
Hanover went up 7-0 when quarterback Matthew Weimer went 57 yards right up the gut less than six minutes into the game. Bluffton trailed 20-0 at the break and it could have been even worse if not for a pair of fourth down stops on back-to-back possessions in the final two minutes of the second quarter.
The Bluffton women's swimming team traveled to Asbury University in Kentucky for the first-ever swimming competition in Bluffton University history! It was also the coaching debut for Ben Rath who started working toward today when he was named the inaugural swimming and diving coach in March. Bluffton went head-to-head with Asbury and Transylvania.
The Bluffton University volleyball team came up on the wrong end of a 3-0 sweep at Rose-Hulman on Sunday, Oct. 24, 2021. Bluffton fell to 9-17 overall and 1-6 in the Heartland Conference, while Rose improved to 11-14 and 2-5 in the HCAC.
RHIT pulled out a couple tight sets, 25-22 and 25-21, before putting the hammer down with a 25-8 whitewashing in set three.
