The Bellmont Braves have moved to within one game of the outright NE8 title and the Bluffton Tigers finished off their unbeaten ACAC regular season crown with an 86-point effort at home against lowly Heritage. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
It all leads up to the final week of the regular season and Sunday’s draw by the IHSAA to set the local sectional fields. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
ACAC SCORES<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Saturday<\/p>\n\n\n\n Bluffton 86 Heritage 22<\/p>\n\n\n\n Note: No stats were provided by Heritage after the game.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n Jay County 52 Southern Wells 34<\/p>\n\n\n\n Woodlan 63 South Adams 16<\/p>\n\n\n\n -Lucy Schwartz and Ana Lehman led the Stars in scoring with five points apiece.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Final Standings<\/p>\n\n\n\n 1st-Bluffton (6-0); 2nd-Woodlan (5-1); 3rd-Jay County (4-2); 4th-Southern Wells (3-3); 5th-Adams Central (2-4); 6th-South Adams (1-5); 7th-Heritage (0-6)<\/p>\n\n\n\n NE8 SCORES<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Friday<\/p>\n\n\n\n Bellmont 32 Huntington North 28<\/p>\n\n\n\n -Bellmont’s only real scoring contributions came from Ashley and Emily Bleke, but it was still enough for the Braves to grind out a really tough game at Huntington North Friday night. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Freshman Ashley Bleke had buckets in all four quarters to lead the Braves with 16, while sister and senior Emily Bleke scored in all four to finish with eleven. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Mary Bleke was the only other player on the team with a field goal. She finished with four points. Gwen Laurent knocked down two fourth-quarter free throws for the only other points on the team. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Columbia City 69 DeKalb 51<\/p>\n\n\n\n East Noble 46 Leo 42<\/p>\n\n\n\n Norwell 83 New Haven 25<\/p>\n\n\n\n Current Standings<\/p>\n\n\n\n 1st-Bellmont (6-0); 2nd-Columbia City (5-1); 3rd-Norwell (3-2); T-4th: DeKalb & Huntington North (3-3); 6th-East Noble (2-4); 7th-Leo (1-4); 8th-New Haven (0-6)<\/p>\n\n\n\n Friday, January 31st Matchups<\/p>\n\n\n\n Huntington North at DeKalb<\/p>\n\n\n\n Leo at Bellmont<\/p>\n\n\n\n New Haven at Columbia City<\/p>\n\n\n\n Norwell at East Noble<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Bellmont Braves have moved to within one game of the outright NE8 title and the Bluffton Tigers<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":23513,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[29,41,13,51,28,26],"class_list":["post-23581","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-adamscentral","tag-basketball","tag-bellmont","tag-heritage","tag-southadams","tag-sports"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wzbd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/IMG_4028-scaled.jpeg?fit=2520%2C2560&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23581","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23581"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23581\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23582,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23581\/revisions\/23582"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23513"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}