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/ Sep 04, 2026

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Potent Pirate football trounces Toledo Bowsher

Sports

/ Sep 05, 2026

Pirates and families celebrate band, cheer and football seniors / CLICK to enlarge

By Cort Reynolds / Photos by James Crawfis

BLUFFTON__The Bluffton High School football team routed visiting Toledo Bowsher 56-12 in the Pirate home opener and Senior Night at Harmon Field on a warm Friday night, September 4.

The Pirates improved to 3-0 with the non-league blowout win. Winless Bowsher fell to 0-3 with the lopsided road loss.

Explosive Bluffton tallied 42 unanswered points to turn a 7-6 score into a 49-6 blowout by halftime.

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Pirate cross country competes at Grove Invite

Sports

/ Sep 05, 2026

By Cort Reynolds

COLUMBUS GROVE__The Bluffton High School cross country teams competed in the Columbus Grove Invitational Red Division meet on Saturday, September 5.

GIRLS RESULTS
Pirate Xandra Gatchel finished 20^th in a solid time of 20:49.5 to post the top Pirate girls showing.

Tessa Tarplee finished 64^th in 22:27.3. Georgia Hagen came in 75^th with a time of 22:49.3. Zaeda Hermiller finished in 120th place in 24:37.8. Tala Gipson ended up 191^st as the fifth Pirate scorer in 29:23.4.