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Stackhouse 1st team All-NWC spiker, Scoles 2nd team 

By Cort Reynolds

Bluffton senior hitter Kylie Stackhouse was named first team All-Northwest Conference in voting recently conducted by the league coaches.

Stackhouse led the Pirates in kills and blocks, and surpassed 1,000 kills for her career this season.

Pirate senior setter Skyler Scoles made second team all-league. She also passed the 1,000 barrier in assists this season.

Lincolnview senior Kendall Bollenbacher was named NWC Player of the Year.

JaNahn Evans was named NWC Coach of the Year by her peers after leading the Lancers to a third straight conference crown.

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Three Pirate girls named 1st team All-NWC girls soccer

By Cort Reynolds

In voting conducted by the league coaches recently, three Pirate girls were named 1st team All-NWC in girls soccer:

Defending league Player of the Year Reagan Mittendorf was voted first team All-Northwest Conference.

Bluffton junior goalkeeper Julia Mehaffie and junior assist ace Allison Diller were also voted first team all-league.

Juniors Olivia Matthews and Samantha Scoles earned second team All-NWC honors.

A trio of Pirate juniors –Riley Eachus, Kendal Giesege and Makayla Schweingruber–were named honorable mention all-conference.

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Pirate Spallinger named NWC Player of Year

By Cort Reynolds

Jude Spallinger of unbeaten league champion Bluffton was voted Northwest Conference boys soccer Player of the Year in voting conducted recently by the league coaches.

Bluffton juniors Eden Antrim and Justin Good were named first team All-NWC alongside Spallinger.

Pirate juniors Ethan Oglesbee, Luke Shepherd and Nolan Huffman, as well as sophomore Nolan Hoffman, were named second team all-league.

Senior Bryan Zimmerman was named honorable mention all-league.

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Soccer losses at Rose-Hulman

Engineers take down Bluffton men 5-1

The Bluffton University men's soccer team fell behind less than two minutes in as RHIT rolled to a 5-1 victory on Saturday, OCt. 23, 2021. Bluffton dipped to 7-7 overall and 3-5 in the Heartland Conference, while Rose improved to 11-4-1 and 8-0 in league play.

Senior Dalton Taynor (Troy/Miami East) provided the loan bright spot for Bluffton on Saturday, netting his 12th goal of the season midway through the second stanza! 

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Hanover rolls to 41-10 rout at Bluffton

The Bluffton University football team fell behind 34-0 on Saturday, Oct. 23, as Hanover moved to 4-3 overall and 3-1 in the Heartland Conference with a convincing 41-10 victory over the Beavers. Bluffton dipped to 2-5 and 1-3 in the HCAC.

Hanover went up 7-0 when quarterback Matthew Weimer went 57 yards right up the gut less than six minutes into the game. Bluffton trailed 20-0 at the break and it could have been even worse if not for a pair of fourth down stops on back-to-back possessions in the final two minutes of the second quarter.

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Beavers kick off swimming era at Asbury

The Bluffton women's swimming team traveled to Asbury University in Kentucky for the first-ever swimming competition in Bluffton University history! It was also the coaching debut for Ben Rath who started working toward today when he was named the inaugural swimming and diving coach in March. Bluffton went head-to-head with Asbury and Transylvania.

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