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Bluffton netmen 5th at Lima tourney

Posted by Fred Steiner on March 30, 2021 - 3:11pm

By Cort Reynolds
LIMA - The Bluffton boys tennis team took fifth place in the six-team Lima City tennis tournament Saturday at the Collett Street Courts to open their season.

Shawnee won the team title with 33 points, followed by LCC in second place (22). Bluffton tallied 13 points to finish well ahead of Wapakoneta.

Pirate senior Eden Nygaard captured fourth place in the first singles flight. Bluffton sophomore Luke Shadle finished second in the number two singles competition.

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Panthers take down Lady Pirates in opener

Lauren Swartzwalder smacked a run-scoring double in the first inning to pace the Pirates to an early 1-0 lead
Posted by Fred Steiner on March 30, 2021 - 3:08pm

By Cort Reynolds
BLUFFTON - The Bluffton softball team led early but fell to McComb Monday evening in its season lidlifter, 12-1.

McComb plated seven runs in the sixth inning to break open a 5-1 battle and post a run-rule victory in six frames.

Lauren Swartzwalder smacked a run-scoring double in the first inning to pace the Pirates to an early 1-0 lead. But McComb answered with four runs in the second frame to take control.

McComb pitching and defense then held Bluffton scoreless over the final five frames. The visitors out-hit Bluffton, 12-5.

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McComb outscores Pirate boys 

Wright, Bogart and Coonfare scored a run apiece for Bluffton
Posted by Fred Steiner on March 30, 2021 - 3:05pm

By Cort Reynolds
BLUFFTON - The host Buffton baseball team lost 18-3 to hard-hitting McComb Monday evening.

The Pirates fell to 0-3 with the defeat, while McComb improved to 1-1 with the five-inning, run-rule shortened victory.

The Panthers broke away from a 1-1 game with consecutive six-run frames in the second and third innings. McComb added five more runs in the top of the fourth to build an 18-2 cushion.

Bluffton plated single runs in the first, second and fourth innings. 

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Rockets sweep Pirates in opener

Posted by Fred Steiner on March 29, 2021 - 4:44pm

By Cort Reynolds
BLUFFTON - The host Buffton baseball team dropped a doubleheader to Pandora-Gilboa in a season-opening twinbill Saturday afternoon.

The Pirates fell to 0-2 with the defeats, while P-G starts out 2-0. 

Rocket hurler Eric Gerschutz pitched a three-hitter in the opener as P-G broke the game open with a five-run second inning.

In the nightcap, Drew Miller struck out 11 Pirates in five innings as three Rocket pitchers combined to pitch a one-hitter.

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Meet the spring sports Pirates

Baseball • Softball • Track • Boys' tennis • Middle school track
Posted by Fred Steiner on March 24, 2021 - 2:42pm

Bluffton High School and middle school spring sports schedules and team rosters were released today by Alex Hanna, BHS athletic director. They are posted as attachments at the bottom of this story

Schedules and rosters include:
• Varsity baseball – first game home Saturday, March 27
   Head coach, Kasey  Krendl; assistant, Doug Sanders

• Varsity softball – first game home Saturday, March 27
   Head coach, Jon Inninger; assistant, Tyler Smith
   JV coach, Katie Prater; assistant, Brad Prater

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Bluffton swimmers finish strong at Great Lakes Zones championships

Swim with Putnam County YMCA team and Lima YMCA team
Posted by Fred Steiner on March 23, 2021 - 3:28pm

Eleven swimmers from Bluffton schools swam at the Great Lakes YMCA Zones Swimming Championship at Bowling Green State University March 19-21.

The 2021 event had 800 swimmers from teams in Indiana, Kentucky, Ohio, Michigan and West Virginia.

Jenna Downey, Camden Verb and Riley Verb swim for the Putnam County YMCA swim team under assistant coach, Bob Verb of Bluffton.

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