The Bluffton High School varsity boys golf team lost a dual match to visiting Blanchard Valley Conference foe Leipsic at the Bluffton Golf Club on August 21.
ABOVE) Bluffton High School girls soccer team, fall 2024
By Cort Reynolds
WAPAKONETA __ The Bluffton High School girls soccer team kicked off its season at Wapakoneta with a 1-0 victory in a non-league battle Tuesday, August 20, at Ryan Field.
The Pirate girls improved to 1-0 by winning their opener. The Wapak team record dropped to 1-1 after the defeat.
The Pirates scored the game’s lone goal just 73 seconds into the fray.
Mya McDoogle netted the winner after beating two Redskin defenders on a counter-attack. She then put a shot past keeper Gianna Staas in a one v. one situation to make it 1-0.
The Bluffton High School boys golf team won a dual match Tuesday, August 20, handily over Bellefontaine. The Pirates triumphed by 31 strokes, 171-202.
Bluffton’s Nick Lovett was match medalist with a nine-hole round of 40. Pirates Evan Speicher and Ethan Fifer tied for second in the 12-player field with a score of 43.
Grady Coonfare was the fourth Pirate scorer as he registered a round of 45.
Bluffton University has named Clay Quellhorst '23 as Interim Head Golf Coach.
Quellhorst is a 2023 graduate of Bluffton University. He has been serving as the graduate assistant, while earning his MBA from Bluffton, for the program for the past year. Last season, Quellhorst helped lead the women's team to a fourth-place finish and the men's team to a fifth-place finish at the HCAC tournament. Quellhorst was a member of the men's golf team for four years.
