Sports

  • /

Kylee Barnett, Bluffton High School graduate, is a member of the Ohio Northern University women’s lacrosse team this spring.
 
Barnett is a junior at ONU majoring in exercise physiology. She will play defense on the team.
 
This is the inaugural season for women’s lacrosse at ONU. The first game is in Ada, at 4 p.m., Saturday, Feb. 27. ONU takes o.n Olivet
 

  • /

Bluffton High School boys' basketball team are in the Division III Lima Senior District tournament. Here's their sectional pairings:

At Elida
Wednesday, Feb. 24
(10) Parkway vs. (11) Riverdale, 6:15 p.m.
(9) Carey vs. (6) Bluffton, 8 p.m.

Sectional Finals
Friday, Feb. 26
(1) Lima Central Catholic vs. Parkway/Riverdale winner, 6:15 p.m.
(3) Coldwater vs. Carey/Bluffton winner, 8 p.m.

  • /

Bluffton High School wrestlers finished second in the Northwest Conference wrestling championship held this past weekend at Paulding. BHS scored 243 points behind champ Dephos Jefferson with 271 points.

The Pirates led the way with four individual champions and three are underclassmen. Jefferson and Allen East each had three.

  • /

Karen Brandt, Bluffton University track and field coach, and Jason Fisher, a Bluffton grad and now throwing coach, advise team members during the Joe Banks Invitational held at Ohio Northern on Saturday. (Monty Siekerman photo for Ada Icon)

 

  • /

Bluffton girls' basketball team stopped Ada 48 to 35 at home tonight. The Pirates are 14-5 (6-1). Ada moves to 12-7 (4-3).

Box score in the attachment.

  • /

Bluffton seventh grader Rebekah Hoff steals the ball from an Ada player and hits 2 for the Pirates. Grace Myers (24) is there in case a rebound is needed. The game was last week. The 7th graders won.

Pages