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.
By Cort Reynolds
BLUFFTON - Jacob Miller scored both goals to lead visiting Shawnee to a 2-1 win over the Bluffton boys soccer team Saturday afternoon.
The Pirates dropped to 11-2-1 with the non-league defeat, their first loss since Aug. 24 at Elida.
After a scoreless first half, Miller found the back of the net in the 45th minute to put the Indians on top, 1-0.
Pirate Jonathan Schriner tied it 1-1 with a goal in the 65th minute. But Miller untied it three minutes later with the eventual winning goal.
Emerson Cox is the pirate of the day. Main Street Bluffton had a pirate invasion Friday evening as the Bluffton HS homecoming parade brought out more pirates than we thought this town could handle. Watch the Icon all week for more parade-watching pirates. Emerson is the son of Jason and Heather Cox.
Bluffton Area Ministerial Association and Day One of Crime Victim Services (CVS) will hold a seminar on “Cultivating A Culture of Consent,” from 6 to 9 p.m., Wednesday, Oct. 16, at the English Lutheran Church.
The Day One Department, 330 N. Elizabeth St., Lima, works with survivors of sexual and gender-based violence.
The seminar will help equip persons attending to recognize, respond and reduce intimate partner violence.
Mennonite Home Communities of Ohio is currently celebrating full occupancy of all independent living units throughout the organization.
In total, there are 87 independent living units spread among the Mennonite Memorial Home and Maple Crest campuses in Bluffton, and the Hilty Home campus in Pandora.
Of those units, 34 are independent living apartments in the main building at Maple Crest, and the other 53 are villas.
