The Bluffton University baseball team continued their early-season success on Friday, March 15, winning 7-5 over Wilmington College. The Beavers would not let an early deficit change their tune as they recovered quickly and never looked back en route to the victory.
Sophomore Nate Simonds (Ypsilanti, Mich./Lincoln) got the start in the home opener for Bluffton, turning in a strong performance en route to his second win of the young season.
The Bluffton University softball team split its doubleheader with Adrian College on a cold Friday, March 15, 2013. Bluffton lost the first game, 9-0, in six innings, but the Beavers rallied from a 6-1 deficit in game two for a 10-9 win that gave Bluffton an unlikely split with the Bulldogs.
The first game got blown open in the second inning when Adrian put up four unearned runs thanks to a pair of Bluffton miscues. Adrian struck for two more in the fifth and three in the sixth.
In New York City for spring break, 23 students representing the Bluffton University group SERVE saw Ground Zero, Times Square and other city landmarks.
But beyond that, during five days of service to poor and homeless New Yorkers, and aid to Hurricane Sandy victims in a Brooklyn neighborhood, “I think we saw a lot of gratefulness,” said the group’s president, Abbey Graber, a Bluffton junior from Archbold, Ohio.
Cleora Louise Skinner, 97 died at 5:35 p.m. March 14, 2013, at Mennonite Memorial Home, Bluffton. She was born Nov. 14, 1915 on the family farm in Jackson Township, Allen County, Ohio to the late Peter P. and Louise (Fett) Badertscher. She was married to Forest Golden and later divorced.
She attended her first eight grades in a one-room school by the name of Peanut Center located on the corner of PeeVee and Sandusky roads. She graduated from Lafayette-Jackson High School in 1933 and Lima Business College in 1936.
Men's High Series
Name Score
1 Brian Huether 765
2 Thomas Dalton 743
3 John Dailey 735
4 Mark Baden 715
5 Rick Stevenson 715
6 Derek Dukes 712
7 Mike Kirian 711
Andy Martin 707
Women's High Series
Name Score
1 Onalee Shepler 564
2 Elaine McBeth 553
3 Pam Baker 543
4 Ruth Everett 533
5 Gina Bloomfield 528
6 Cathy Wilson 525
7 Marilyn Erford 524
