Here are the Bluffton High School varsity, junior varsity and freshmen winter teams. The junior high teams were featured yesterday. Click here to view those teams.
Varsity wrestling team
1st row: Caden Habegger, Isaiah Mikesell, Kyle Basil, Thayne Kleman, Junior Carnauba, Tayton Kleman.
Pirate fans will love this 25 second video Tweet. It shows the game winning basket by Bluffton eighth grader Marek Donalson in a game last night at Liberty Benton.
By Cort Reynolds
BLUFFTON - The host Bluffton girls basketball team raced to a big early lead and convincingly defeated North Baltimore 50-33 in non-conference action Tuesday night.
The Lady Pirates jumped to a 20-6 first period lead and held a 30-18 cushion at intermission. They extended the margin to 39-22 after three periods and cruised to the victory.
Bluffton improved its record to 4-3 overall with the win. The Tiger girls dropped to 3-2 with the defeat.
By Cort Reynolds
ADA - Visiting Bluffton finished the game on a 17-5 run to avoid an upset bid by winless local rival Ada and pull out a 55-52 victory in the Northwest Conference boys basketball opener.
The Bulldogs led 47-38 with under six minutes remaining to play after junior Cayden Murphy followed up a miss inside for a basket.
But then the Pirates began pounding the ball inside to reel off an 11-0 flurry and take a 49-47 lead.
The Bluffton Swim Club open its season with two wins this month.
Dec. 2 with Lima Senior and Toledo Whitmer
The following student athletes competed for the Bluffton Swim Club; seniors Simon Derstine and Ellie Hoffman, junior Malia Lee, sophmores Landon Armstrong, Sam Derstine, Allison Diller, Nolan Hoffman, CJ McCall, Eric Nygaard and Riley Verb, and freshmen Ella Armstrong, Tyler Cupples, Jacob Lehman and Izzy Stechschulte.
Landon Armstrong won all three of his events which included the boys 200 meter freestyle with a time of 2:18:75.
