By Sam Brauen www.blufftonpirates.com
The Bluffton wrestling team turned in a terrific third place finish at the Northwest Conference meet led by Tayton Kleman, James Badial-Luna and Deandre Nassar who all won their class championship. Nassar and Badial-Luna each picked up career win #100.
Jeremy Sturgeon, Elijah Conley and Landen Luginbuhl took second in their classes and Josh Mehaffie and Brady Romick finished third.
By Sam Brauen
Sophomore Jared Piercefield scored 17 points as the Bluffton boys basketball team pulled away from Allen East Friday night for a 49-30 Northwest Conference victory. The win improves the Pirates to 7-8 overall and 3-2 in league play. Bluffton led the entire game and pulled away in the fourth quarter for the win. (more at www.blufftonpirates.com)
Bluffton jumped out to a 16-4 lead after one quarter then fought off a physical Allen East squad to earn a 58-47 road conference win. Three Pirates scored in double figures led by Alivia Koenig with 16. Averey Rumer added 12 and Libby Schaadt 11. Bluffton improved to 13-5 overall and 5-2 in league play. (go to www.blufftonpirates.com for rest of story)
By Cort Reynolds
Ada will host the Northwest Conference wrestling championship meet for the first time ever Saturday, starting at 10 a.m.
Allen East is the defending NWC champion, having edged Bluffton 209-206
last year at Spencerville. Ada took fourth in the 2017 eight-team event
with 134.5 points.
Ada senior Chase Sumner won the 138 lb. title at the 2017 NWC meet, and
was named league Wrestler of the Year.
The event will be held in the 1971 varsity gym Saturday.
Bluffton High School senior Justin Haggard, today, signed a letter of intent to play men’s tennis at Mount Vernon Nazarene University, in Mount Vernon.
Justin is the son of Julien and Jenna Haggard. Justin was a District qualifier in 2017. He was also a member of the varsity football team, where he earned 2nd team All-Conference honors.
Justin plans to major in Secondary Education with a focus in Biology. Justin participates in Teens for Christ in Bluffton, and is a member of St. John Mennonite Church, Pandora.
Landen Luginbuhl finished second and James Badial-Luna fourth in their respective classes to lead the Bluffton wrestling team this weekend at the LCC Thunderbird Invitational. As a team, the Pirates finished 18th out of 46 competing teams. (complete story at www.blufftonpirates.com)
