By Cort Reynolds Season scores at bottom of story
BLUFFTON - Allison Diller scored a hat trick to lead the Bluffton girls soccer team to a regular season-ending 5-0 shutout win over visiting Coldwater Thursday night.
With their 12th win in a row, the Lady Pirates improved to 13-2-1. Coldwater fell to .500 at 8-8 with the defeat.
Diller found the back of the net in the third, 10th and 36th minutes of play to give Bluffton a 3-0 halftime lead.
Story by Cort Reynolds
Game photos by Rae Staton Season scores at bottom of story
KALIDA - The visiting Bluffton boys soccer team defeated Kalida 4-1 in a non-conference match Thursday night to end the regular season.
The Pirates improved to 14-0-2 with the victory. Kalida fell to 4-10-3 with the defeat.
Simon Derstine netted a pair of goals and added one assist to pace the Pirate offense.
Jonathan Schriner scored a goal in the 11th minute. Josh Mehaffie added to the lead with a goal about six minutes later.
By Cort Reynolds
BLUFFTON - The host Bluffton girls volleyball team won a four-setter over non-conference rival Van Buren Thursday night to end the regular season on a positive note.
Bluffton's record improved to 13-8 overall with the 25-23, 25-17, 17-25, 25-19 victory.
VB fell to 11-8 with the defeat.
Kylie Stackhouse led the Pirate attack with 20 kills and one block. Versatile Taylor Schwab compiled 15 kills, 20 digs and served five aces.
Haelynn Bischoff also knocked down seven kills, and Cara Young added 14 digs.
Bluffton hosts the girls' Division III soccer sectional/district tournament this month. Eleven schools are part of the tournament. Liberty Benton is seeded number one and Bluffton is seeded number two.
By Cort Reynolds
FROM ADA ICON - With basketball practice set to tip off Oct. 30, the Ada athletic department and school district moved quickly to hire a familiar face as the replacement for Dre White, who resigned Oct. 6.
Ada hired veteran local coach Jon Cook at its Oct. 14 school board meeting by a 4-1 vote. Cook previously coached the Bulldog boys varsity squad for three seasons from 1995-98 after a short stint as the junior varsity coach.
He has a varied resume of coaching at many levels, including junior high at Ada as well as collegiately.
The Heartland Collegiate Athletic Conference (HCAC) continues its new series, Heartland Kids Corner, featuring student athletes interviewed by the children of their coaches.
Episode two features Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology head men’s basketball coach Rusty Loyd’s daughter Maren. The Fightin’ Engineers in the hot season include Max Chaplin, Tim Harris and Samvit Ram.
