The winner of Week 1 of The Icon Football Contest is Duane Bollenbacher. He picked all 15 games correctly.
Other contestants:
o 14 correct - John Clevidence, Marvin Foster and Todd Fleharty.
o 13 correct - Adelyn Althuas, Barry Schneck, Brad Smith, Dan Smith, David Glick, Joe Sehlhorst, Joe Suter, Luke Amstutz, Mary Glick, Nancy Armour, Rick Armstrong and Tom Heimann.
o 12 correct - Dave Moser, Mark Delisle, Mark Sommers, Mike Burris, Randy Stewart, Ryan Kruse and Scott Gleason.
By Bryan Kress
The 2012 Bluffton football season started with a broken record and an impressive showing on the ground. Bluffton racked up 270 yards rushing and even more importantly, limited Cory-Rawson to only 134 yards of total offense on their turf.
With a convincing 30-0 showing in the first game of the season on the road, Bluffton seems poised to be a tough match-up this upcoming year.
Miller City girls' soccer 5
Bluffton 1
Halftime: MC, 4-0 Goals: (B) Lugibihl. Assists: (B) Dulle.
Shots on Goal: MC, 15-11.
Corner Kicks: B, 4-3,
Saves: B,None; MC,NA
Home: MC 1-0-0,
Away: Bluffton 0-1-0
Alexis Lugibihl scored the only Pirate goal in the second half with an assist from Megan Dulle. The Pirates were able to hold Miller City to only one goal in the second half after having been scored on four times in the first half.
JV Score: 0-0
The Bluffton Icon invites viewers to enter its weekly high school/college football contest. The first week's contest is now posted.
Viewers may enter it by clicking the contest banner located at the bottom of this page, or by clicking here.
The contest will run for 10 weeks. There will be a weekly winner and a regular season winner. The contest judge will keep track of all players and their total wins during the entire contest to determine the regular season winner.
For previous columns click here
Bluffton Icon intern, Jake Dowling, wrote the NFL season preview, posted on The Icon is several parts. Here is the final piece of the puzzle. Dowling lists is predictions on how the 2012 season will end.
x-division winner y-wild card z-home field advantage
AFC EAST
x-New England Patriots- 11-5
New York Jets- Division- 9-7
Buffalo Bills- Division- 7-9
Miami Dolphins- Division- 5-11
AFC NORTH
Xz-Baltimore Ravens- 12-4
y-Cincinnati Bengals- 10-6 (Hold tiebreaker)
The Bluffton Area Tennis Association held a Women's Doubles Tournament last weekend. Six teams started Friday night wearing their cold weather gear and battled each other until 5 pm Saturday.
The tournament was epic as usual and ended in a close final match between Desrene Brown/Cindy Schneck and Jeanna Haggard/Barb Prince.
Haggard/Prince came out on top to earn first place trophies and bragging rights for an entire year.
Players from left: Cindy Schneck, Jeanna Haggard, Barb Prince, Desrene Brown (first place winners in pink, second place winners in blue).
