Vine St will close from noon(ish) on Wednesday, November 27 for The After Blaze tent setup. *** Nov. 27 5:30 PM HOME JV/V Girls Basketball vs Benjamin Logan
Dr. Rudi Kauffman, an assistant professor of restorative justice at Bluffton University, will discuss “Counting the Cost: Analyzing the Humanitarian Impacts of Just War-making” at 4 p.m. Friday, Oct. 11, in Stutzman Lecture Hall in Centennial Hall.
Free and open to the public, the campus colloquium has been postponed one week, from Oct. 4, due to a scheduling conflict.
After spending their first Friday on campus since the beginning of the year, the Beavers were excited to get back on the road Saturday to travel to Mount Union to face Marietta College along with the #8 ranked host school.
The first match was a long and intense battle against a Marietta squad that took down the Beavers on the opening weekend at the Sommer Center Spiketacular. In the first set Bluffton welcomed two injured players back into the lineup.
The Beavers traveled to Cincinnati on Saturday, Sept. 28, for a Heartland Conference matchup with the Mount St. Joseph Lions. Bluffton fell 52-28, despite an excellent passing performance from quarterback Nick Sheehan (Monroe Ind./Heritage) as the junior threw for 372 yards and three touchdowns on 23 completions.
Bluffton University wide receiver Shawn Frost (Edison, Ohio/Mt. Gilead) was voted as the HCAC Play of the Week for week 3.
The senior earned the title after voting took place on the HCAC social media outlets of Facebook and Twitter.
Frost's winning play was a one-handed touchdown grab from junior quarterback Nick Sheehan (Monroeville, Ind./Heritage) late in the fourth quarter against Earlham helping the Beavers cap a 36-21 win in the conference opener.
The final voting tally saw Frost garnering 93 percent of the vote.
The Bluffton University volleyball was looking to avenge its recent loss to local rival Ohio Northern when the Beavers invaded the King Horn Center on Wednesday, Sept. 25, but ONU had none of it as the home team made quick work of the Beavers, wrapping up its second three-set victory over Bluffton in five days. Ohio Northern improved to 10-6 following the win, while Bluffton slipped to 7-10 with a fourth setback in its last five matches.
