Individual wrestling state tournament will become a Friday-Saturday-Sunday event; girls basketball, the same weekend as wrestling, will leave the Schottenstein Center
The Ohio High School Athletic Association has announced changes to the 2020 individual wrestling and girls basketball state tournaments. The wrestling state tournament will move to a Friday-Saturday-Sunday format (March 13-15) at the Schottenstein Center, while the girls basketball state tournament, which is the same weekend (March 12-14), will leave the Schottenstein Center.
The OHSAA has not yet finalized the location for the 2020 girls basketball state tournament. That is also the same weekend as the OHSAA’s ice hockey and Division I girls and boys bowling state tournaments.
Bluffton University will recognize its top student-athletes at the annual Athletics Awards Forum at 11 a.m. Tuesday, April 16, in Yoder Recital Hall. The event is free and open to the public.
Two awards will be presented. Bluffton’s top senior male athlete will receive the A.C. Burcky Award, while the top senior female athlete will receive the Kathryn E. Little Award.
During the Forum, Brad Woodson, a 1989 Bluffton graduate and dean of students at Groveport Madison High School, will present “Leveling the Field.”
Paul I. Dyck, 93, of Bluffton died April 13, 2019. He was born on Jan 14, 1926, in Olds, Alberta, Canada. He married Lois Mae (Bartel) Dyck on Aug. 14, 1956 and she preceded him in death on Dec. 8, 2005.
After completing undergraduate (Bethel College, Kansas) and seminary training (Chicago Theological Seminary), he and his wife moved to India in 1956 with their two young sons, to serve as missionaries with the Mennonite Mission Board.
State Representative Riordan McClain will address Bluffton University’s 2019 graduating class during the Sunday, May 5, commencement ceremony in the Sommer Center.
McClain, a 2006 alumnus, is serving his first full term in the Ohio House of Representatives, having been appointed in January 2018 during the 132nd General Assembly. He represents the 87th House District, which includes Wyandot, Crawford and Morrow counties, as well as portions of Marion and Seneca counties.
Bluffton Paving is busy this month with three area Ohio Department of Transportation projects in the area.
ODOT reports the following projects performed by the Bluffton company:
• State Route 65 between Fourth Street and Elm Street, Lima, will be restricted to one lane of through traffic in each direction through the work zone for pavement resurfacing beginning Wednesday, April 24.
