PANDORA__A huge first inning outburst led the visiting Bluffton High School girls softball team to an 18-4 shellacking of local non-league rival Pandora-Gilboa in the season opener on a warm evening Monday, March 30.
The Pirate girls pushed across a whopping total of 11 runs in the first inning to start their campaign off strongly. They scored two runs in the second, plated one in the fourth and added four tallies in the fifth to invoke the 10-run mercy rule.
BLUFFTON__The Bluffton High School boys tennis team served up its season opener with a dominating 5-0 sweep over visiting Bath on Monday, March 30.
The Pirate netmen did not drop a set in the lopsided match to begin their season 1-0. Bluffton swept all three singles matches by a 36-0 count in games. In all, they lost only one game in the match.
Senior Grady Coonfare rolled to a 6-0, 6-0 victory at first singles.
Senior Isaiah Kohli also cruised to a win at second singles by a 6-0, 6-0 count.
MEDIA RELEASE__Apollo Career Center has released the third quarter 2025-2026 Honor Roll which includes the following students from Bluffton High School.
A Honor Roll
Lauren Bowers
Charlotte Burkholder
Keith Hohenbrink
Dylan Lewis
Sara Manlove
Josef Miller
Blaize Schwarz
Kenedeye Scoles
Owen Scoles
Jayden Shaffer
Reis Thompson
Jay Tuttle
Sharon Sue Oman Stuckey MacKenzie, 81, of Bluffton, Ohio, passed away peacefully on Saturday, March 28, 2026, at Bridge Hospice Care Center. She was born October 21, 1944, in Mt. Blanchard, Ohio to Domer D. and Dortha (Price) Oman. After Domer was killed in World War II, she was raised by her mother and stepfather, Ralph Cole. She married her high school sweetheart, Donald D. Stuckey, on August 14, 1965, and he preceded her in death on January 2, 1992. She then married Lawrence B. "Larry" MacKenzie on November 30, 2002, and he preceded her in death on October 23, 2006.
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