All-Heartland Conference honors have been awarded to four members of the Bluffton University men's soccer team, a school record. On Tuesday, Nov. 2, Dalton Taynor (Troy/Miami East) Maxwell Kennedy (Strongsville) and Angel Velasco-Urbina (Lexington, Ky./Henry Clay) netted 2nd Team honors, while Elijah Zimmerman (Archbold) was an Honorable Mention All-HCAC selection.
Taynor secured his 3rd All-Heartland Conference award. He leads the conference with 2.0 points per game and his 12 goals rank 2nd despite missing the first four conference contests. His 37 shots are 5th in the HCAC.
At 6 p.m. on November 3, the Bluffton High School boys soccer team will play Toledo Ottawa Hills in the Region 10 semfinal at Tiffin Columbian High School, 300 S. Monroe St, Tiffin.
Tickets for this game must be purchased in advance at https://www.ohsaa.org/tickets ($10 presale, $12 the day of the game).
The Bluffton High School boys cross country team will run on Saturday, Nov. 6 at Fortress Obetz and Memorial Park in the 93rd annual OHSAA cross country state championships.
The team is Landon Armstrong, Trey Boblitt, Isaiah Conley, Sam Derstine, Liam Jordan, Erik Nygaard, Jonah Rehm, and John-Paul Yoder. The coach is Bill Theisen.
Visiting Bluffton forged an early lead but eventually lost 40-14 to Liberty Center in Div. VI, Region 22 first round football playoff action Saturday night, October 30.
Bluffton scored first and led 14-7 late in the second period before things unraveled.
LC scored 20 points apiece in the second and third quarters and tallied the final 33 points to win going away.
Seeded 12th, Bluffton finished its season 5-6 after the defeat.
The Bluffton University football team dropped a 48-12 decision at HCAC-leading Rose-Hulman on Saturday, Oct. 30, 2021. Bluffton fell to 2-6 overall and 1-4 in the Heartland, while Rose improved to 6-2 and a perfect 5-0 in the conference.
With Bluffton trailing 17-0 late in the first quarter, freshman quarterback Blake Rine (Heath/Granville) connected with sophomore Ethan Beringer (Findlay/Carey) from 15 yards out, making it 17-6 with less than a minute to play in the opening stanza.
The Bluffton University men's soccer team made an early Elijah Zimmerman (Archbold) goal stand up for the second straight match as the Beavers knocked out Anderson University 1-0 for their first ever Heartland Conference Tournament win. Bluffton moved to 9-7 on the season and are now assured of the first winning season since the Beavers went 9-8 in 1993. Anderson bows out with an 8-9-2 mark for the season.
