LIMA – The Bluffton High School wrestling team finished a solid ninth at the 36-team Thunderbird Invitational at Lima Central Catholic on Friday and Saturday, January 24-25.
Delta won the team crown with 290.5 points. Waynedale was second with 247.5. Allen East came in sixth (113), while the Pirates came in ninth at the two-day event with 93.5 points.
Host LCC ended up 11th with 85.5 points.
Bluffton’s Branden Cross came in fourth in the 120 lbs. division to post the top Pirate finish.
Pirate Ronald Kaufman took fifth in the 106 lbs. weight class.
Evan Grothause came in fifth in the 190 lbs. bracket.
Pirate Mason Shank finished seventh in the heavyweight division.
BLUFFTON - The Bluffton High School varsity bowling team defeated visiting North Baltimore in a dual match at Southgate Lanes on Friday, January 24.
The Pirates prevailed by a score of 2,492 pins to 2,295. The win upped their season record to 6-2.
“It was a good night for our varsity team,” said Pirate coach Ben Nye. “The five starters average 900 as a team, so it was a good group effort across the two standard games of bowling.”
BLUFFTON – The Bluffton High School boys basketball team defeated visiting Northwest Conference foe Lincolnview 71-54 Friday night, January 24.
Blake Sommers led four Pirates in double figures with 15 points.
The Pirates improved to 10-4 overall and 2-2 in the NWC with the victory.
Lincolnview fell to 5-10 overall and 0-4 in NWC play with the defeat.
Bluffton led 16-14 after the first period. The Pirates maintained a narrow 31-28 margin at halftime.
Bluffton outscored the Lancers 20-13 in each of the last two quarters to pull away and win by 17.
Guard Marek Donaldson scored a dozen points. Carter Hohenbrink netted a season-high 11 points. Kain Wright also tallied 11 markers.
Bean Ginther added eight points, while Landen Worcester contributed seven to the balanced Bluffton offensive attack.
OTTAWA- The Bluffton High School swim teams finished a strong second at a six-team meet in the Putnam County YMCA at Ottawa on Thursday, January 23.
Margaretta swept to first place in all three team categories. They won the combined team title, and captured first in both the boys and girls standings.
The balanced victors scored 211 combined points, including 106 boys and 105 girls points.
