The Bluffton University men's soccer team suffered a tough 3-2 loss to Franklin College on Wednesday, Oct. 20, 2021. Bluffton fell to 7-6 overall and 3-4 in the Heartland Conference, while Franklin improved to 5-8-1 and 3-3-1 in the HCAC.
The Bluffton University volleyball team struggled with Mount St. Joseph serving in a four-set loss to the Lions on Wednesday, Oct. 20, 2021. Bluffton fell to 9-16 overall and 1-5 in the Heartland Conference, while MSJ improved 15-8 and 5-1 in the HCAC.
Bluffton came out like gangbusters in the opener, taking down the mighty Lions, 25-20. Sets two and three both went in favor of the visitors by identical 25-15 scores before the Mount moved to 5-1 in the conference with a 25-16 exclamation point in the capper.
The Bluffton girls soccer team dominated Mansfield St. Peter's 11-1 in a Div. III sectional first round mismatch Tuesday night, October 19, at home at Steinmetz Field.
The Pirate girls improved to 13-3-1 with the lopsided victory.
Third-seeded Bluffton advances to take on the winner between second-seeded Mansfield Christian and sixth seed Riverdale in the district semifinals at Bluffton on Tuesday, Oct. 26.
The Bluffton volleyball team lost a five-set nailbiter to visiting Van Buren in the Div. III sectional semifinals Monday evening, October 18.
The Lady Pirates won sets two and four in close battles to force a decisive fifth game. But VB took the first, third and fifth sets to eke out the win.
Bluffton's season record ended up 13-10. Five seniors played their final match for the Pirates in the gut-wrenching 25-12, 30-32, 25-17, 22-25, 15-12 defeat.
VB improved to 17-5 with the tournament victory, their second win over the Pirates in less than a week.
The Bluffton University men's golf team wrapped up its 2021 fall slate with a 332 on Sunday, Oct. 17. Bluffton's 667 at the Denison Fall Invitational put the Beavers in 8th place following 36 holes at the Cumberland Trail Golf Club.
Junior Clay Quellhorst (St. Marys/Memorial) and senior Dominic Castelvetere (Ontario) both put 81's on the board Sunday. Freshman Hunter Jolliff (Elida) chipped in with an 84 as he and Quellhorst topped the Beavers with identical scores of 165 for the weekend.
The Bluffton University women's soccer team dropped a 5-2 decision to Anderson University on a beautiful Sunday, Oct. 17, 2021. Bluffton fell to 4-9 overall and 1-5 in the Heartland Conference following the Senior Day setback. Anderson improved to 6-5-2 and 5-0-1 in the HCAC.
Trailing 2-0 coming out of the break, Bluffton cut its deficit in half when senior Shawn Broadhurst (Belleville, MI/Belleville) delivered a strike to Nina McGinn (Marion/Harding) who drove home her second goal of the season.
