The Bluffton University baseball team struggled with consistency in 2019, winning three straight games just one time, but with an experienced core of returners back the Beavers have a return to the Heartland Conference tournament in their sights. Despite injuries to key personnel that besieged the Beavers all season, Bluffton was just two victories away from its fifth 20-win season in school history.
Tickets are available for the Thursday, March 12, performance by professional brass quintet at 7 p.m. in Bluffton University’s Yoder Recital Hall.
The group has performed at venues including concert halls, music festivals and corporate events, and provides a unique approach to a brass quintet concert.
A Bluffton track and field team member was named men's track athlete of the week in the HCAC.
Connor Gulick (St. Louisville, Ohio) Bluffton University, senior, won the 800 meter run at the Ohio Northern Polar Bear Final Qualifier in a lifetime best of 1:59.03. It is the fourth fastest time of any HCAC competitor so far this season.
Other athletes were Nathan Schrader, Rose-Hulman, men's field; Kenna Hunter, women's rack, Hanover; and Anna Shoster, Mount St. Joseph University, women's field.
Three familiar faces secured All-Heartland Conference recognition when the HCAC handed out its post-season hardware on Wedneday, March 4. Headlining the Bluffton selections was senior Andrew Renner (Cairo/Bath) who is the first Beaver to be named First Team All-HCAC since 2016-17 when Austin Rohde was honored. Isaiah Taylor (Yellow Springs) and Dezman Brown (Elyria) both notched Honorable Mention acclaim following the 2019-20 campaign.
Tickets are available for the Thursday, March 12, performance by professional brass quintet at 7 p.m. in Bluffton University’s Yoder Recital Hall. The group has performed at venues including concert halls, music festivals and corporate events, and provides a unique approach to a brass quintet concert.
Bluffton University will celebrate 75 years of offering a social work program to students later this month.
A university Forum will focus on the social work program at 11 a.m., Tuesday, March 17, in Yoder Recital Hall.
During the presentation, alumni and faculty from the program will present stories from the earliest graduates, those who came back to teach in the program and others who used their degrees in creative ways.
