By Cort Reynolds
FINDLAY - The Bluffton girls soccer team was seeded fifth at the 11-team Division III Findlay sectional drawing held Sunday.
The Lady Pirates (8-5-1) were voted a first round bye and will host seventh-seeded Mansfield St. Peter's Thursday, Oct. 17, at 5 p.m.
If results go according to seed, the Pirate/MSP victor will then face top seed Liberty-Benton Tuesday, October 22, at 5 p.m. at Findlay High School in the district semis.
By Cort Reynolds
TIFFIN - The Bluffton boys' soccer team (11-2-1) was seeded first at the 12-team Division III Tiffin sectional drawing held Sunday.
Top seed Bluffton earned a first round bye and will play the winner between 11th seed Otsego and 12th seed Woodmore Saturday, Oct. 19, at Bluffton in the second round.
The winner advances to the district semifinals Oct. 23.
The team was ranked third in the Division 3 of the Northwest Ohio Soccer Coaches Association poll last week. Bluffton is behind Ottawa Hills and Maumee Valley Country Day.
The Bluffton High School boys' soccer team is now ranked third in the Division 3 of the Northwest Ohio Soccer Coaches Association poll. Bluffton is behind Ottawa Hills and Maumee Valley Country Day. The top 10 ranked teams are attached below.
By Cort Reynolds
BLUFFTON - The Bluffton volleyball team was seeded fifth at the 14-team Div. IV Bluffton super sectional drawing held Sunday.
The Lady Pirates (11-9) will host eighth-seeded Pandora-Gilboa in the first round Tuesday, October 15 at 5:30 p.m.
Bluffton beat P-G 3-1 back on August 22 in just their second match of the season.
The Pirate/P-G victor will face the victor between heavily-favored third seed Marion Local and winless 14th seed Upper Scioto Valley. That second round match will take place at New Knoxville Thursday, Oct. 17.
By Cort Reynolds
BLUFFTON - The Bluffton football team was upset 21-9 by visiting Paulding in a Northwest Conference ground battle to spoil Homecoming Friday night at Harmon Field.
Their second consecutive loss dropped the Pirate record to 3-3 overall and 1-2 in the NWC. The Panthers improved to 2-4 and 1-2 in league play as they ended a two-game losing skid.
By Cort Reynolds
LIMA - Seven Bluffton girls tennis players competed at the Div. II sectional tournament hosted by Elida this past Thursday at UNOH.
Forty singles players competed, with only the final four moving on to districts next week.
Pirate senior Erin Hotmire won her first match, a round of 32 battle, over Rachel Wilcox of Bath by a 6-0, 6-2 score. In the round of 16, Hotmire eliminated Defiance's Alexa Bickford easily in straight sets 6-0, 6-0.
