The Bluffton University baseball team fell to Thomas More twice on Saturday, March 19, 17-3 and 6-4. With the two losses, the Beavers dropped to 6-7 on the season while the Saints stayed perfect at 9-0.
The Saints plated four runs in the first inning, six in the third, one in the top of the fourth, four more in the fifth, and finally two in the sixth frame for a 14-run difference in the Thomas More victory.
The Bluffton University softball team split its first HCAC series of the season against Heartland Conference rival Rose-Hulman on Saturday, March 19. The Beavers lost 5-3 to the Engineers, but came back to win the second game 6-3. Bluffton stands 8-5 overall and 1-1 in the HCAC. Rose-Hulman is 1-1 in the HCAC and 5-9 overall.
Shirley A. Spurck, 73, formerly of rural Arlington died at 6:15 a.m., Saturday, March 19, 2011 at the Mennonite Memorial Home, Bluffton.
She was born on Sept. 8, 1937, to the late William E. and Grace V. (Bash) Gibson in Wyandot County, Ohio. She married Nicholas Spurck on Aug. 27, 1960, and he survives.
Mrs. Spurck is also survived by a son, Jeffery L. Spurck of rural Forest; daughters: Lisa Ann (Marden) Herr of rural Bluffton, and Virginia Lynn
Gillespie of Carey; brother, Glenn W. Gibson of rural Forest; and four grandchildren.
20 miles north of Cincinnati - Monroe - just minutes from the new outlet mall.
Where did you go to school?
I went to East Lakota through third grade and then was forced (and cried for a week) to go to Cincinnati Christian. Then I fell in love with basketball and knew I'd never get a good scholarship from a class of 50, so I went back to Lakota. I tore my ACL, missed my friends, and went back to CC. I graduated from there.
Help a Bluffton Boy Scout become an American Indian this summer.
Members of the Bluffton Boy Scout Troop 256 seek some financial assistance for a sesquicentennial project they are involved with this summer, according to Gary Wetherill, assistant scoutmaster.
"The troop has been asked by the sesquicentennial committee to build and staff an American Indian village for the two weekends of the sesquicentennial celebration," Wetherill told The Icon.
All Bluffton High School Junior Class parents are invited to a Post-Prom Planning Meeting on Monday, March 28, at 6:30 p.m. in the High School Cafeteria. Parents who would like to be involved but are unable to attend this meeting are asked to contact Susan Liska.
All Bluffton High School Junior Class parents are invited to a Post-Prom Planning Meeting on Monday, March 28, at 6:30 p.m. in the High School Cafeteria. Parents who would like to be involved but are unable to attend this meeting are asked to contact Susan Liska.
Pride and Prejudice is this week's Jane Austen film show at the Bluffton Public Library. The show is at 1:30 p.m., Tuesday, March 22. The film showing is part of Bluffton University' Institute for Learning in Retirement (ILR) and the Friends of the Library.A discussion of the film will follow its showing.
Bluffton University's annual Bach Festival held this weekend concludes the Bach Festival Concert on Sunday, March 20. The event is free and open to the public.
The Sunday concert will open at 2:30 p.m. in Yoder Recital Hall with the second annual Mosiman Young Artist Competition. Ten Bluffton students auditioned for the competition on Feb. 21.
The three finalists chosen to perform at the concert are James Brake, a junior from Ohio City, Ohio, on vibraphone; soprano Sarah Diller, a senior from Bluffton; and Kitanya Murray, a junior from Findlay, Ohio, on saxophone.
