Alec Yoder, grandson of Alan and Diann Yoder, Bluffton, launched his gymnastics career at Ohio State University on Dec. 21 leading the Grey team to a win at the Scarlet and Gray Intrasquad. The OSU freshman won the all-around title.
Alec is the son Mike and Rebecca Yoder of Indianapolis. Mike is a Bluffton HS grad. Details follow:
The Gray team defeated the Scarlet team, 269.300-265.300, earning its fourth win in the exhibition contest in the last five seasons. The Top-3 scores per team on each apparatus counted toward the final results.
She scored 23 points in Bluffton girls’ win over Delphos Jefferson on Dec. 10. Her points included five treys in the first quarter – if that’s not a record, it should be.
The Pirates won the NWC contest 58 to 47. The game stats are in an attachment at the bottom of this story.
Several Bluffton area youth participated in a Nov. 21 swim meet, swimming with the Lima YMCA Barracudas swim team, in a competititon with the Putnam County Y.
Open the attachment at the bottom of this story for local results.
Many Bluffton High School athletes excel on the sports field and in the classroom.
Jim Raabe, Northwest Conference commissioner, has released the list of NWC scholar athletes for the fall season.
Scholar athletes are determined as follows:
• Must be a letter winner in their sport.
• Gold level -- GPA of 3.5 or higher during the season of their sport.
• Silver level -- GPA of 3.0 to 3.49 during the season of their sport.
Bluffton's list is below. In addition, an entire NWC list in attached.
