July 23, 2014 at 2:10 p.m.
Indians defeat Spencerville (02/19/07)
FRHS boys basketball
SPENCERVILLE, Ohio - The Indians made life tough on their hosts Saturday night, forcing the Spencerville Bearcats to play from behind all night.
Fort Recovery's boys basketball team jumped out to a 12-4 lead and never trailed, even track-meet second-half which saw the teams combine score 84 points and shoot 57 percent. The Tribe's 70-63 victory capped their regular-season record at 12-8, and sends it to the tournament on a three-game winning streak.
The Indians will play top-seeded and Division IV No. 1 New Knoxville for a sectional title Friday, March 2, at Coldwater at 6:15 p.m.
After leading by double-digits in the first half, Fort Recovery's advantage was at five points at the intermission and slipped to just two midway through the third quarter. But, back-to-back 3-pointers by Clint Tobe and Bobby Rammel followed by a hoop from senior Tony Diller gave the Indians a quick 8-0 run to push the lead back out to 43-33.
Spencerville got to within three points on a trio of Zach Bower free throws with 1:06 to play only to have the Tribe respond again. After a Bearcat timeout Diller hit another big shot of a Toby Metzger assist, then Metzger came up with a steal, was fouled and made both shots. His pair of free throws started a 7-of-8 stretch for Indians to seal the game.
Tobe, a junior, led a three Fort Recovery players in double figures as he shot 6-of-13 for 19 points. He also had seven rebounds and three assists.
Rammel had a "lucky number night", scoring 17 points on Feb. 17 - his 17th birthday. He shot 7-of-13 overall for the Indians, who shot 13-of-21 (62 percent) in the second half after hitting for just 36 percent in the first.
Greg Kahlig added 10 points, Diller had nine and Aaron Kahlig score eight.
Metzger finished with a game-high nine rebounds and team-high six assists.
Isaac Bower shot 7-of-14 from the field for 22 points to lead Spencerville, while also dishing out seven assists. Logan Nourse followed with 14 points, seven rebounds and three steals.
Junior varsity
Fort Recovery couldn't get much to fall in overtime, falling 53-50 to the Bearcats.
The Indians went just 2-of-7 (29 percent) from the field in overtime. Spencerville also hit just two shots, including a 3-pointer, but did so in three attempts and buried a couple free throws to eke out the win.
Zach Bowers paced the home team with 13 points. Daniel Ryder followed with 10 points and a game-high nine rebounds to lead the Bearcats to a 29-18 rebounding advantage.
Fort Recovery fell just short, despite having three players reach double figures. Josh Wendel set the pace with 14 points, and Wes Kahlig and Brent Faller followed with 12 and 10 respectively.
Curt Heitkamp had five assists, four rebounds and three steals.[[In-content Ad]]
Fort Recovery's boys basketball team jumped out to a 12-4 lead and never trailed, even track-meet second-half which saw the teams combine score 84 points and shoot 57 percent. The Tribe's 70-63 victory capped their regular-season record at 12-8, and sends it to the tournament on a three-game winning streak.
The Indians will play top-seeded and Division IV No. 1 New Knoxville for a sectional title Friday, March 2, at Coldwater at 6:15 p.m.
After leading by double-digits in the first half, Fort Recovery's advantage was at five points at the intermission and slipped to just two midway through the third quarter. But, back-to-back 3-pointers by Clint Tobe and Bobby Rammel followed by a hoop from senior Tony Diller gave the Indians a quick 8-0 run to push the lead back out to 43-33.
Spencerville got to within three points on a trio of Zach Bower free throws with 1:06 to play only to have the Tribe respond again. After a Bearcat timeout Diller hit another big shot of a Toby Metzger assist, then Metzger came up with a steal, was fouled and made both shots. His pair of free throws started a 7-of-8 stretch for Indians to seal the game.
Tobe, a junior, led a three Fort Recovery players in double figures as he shot 6-of-13 for 19 points. He also had seven rebounds and three assists.
Rammel had a "lucky number night", scoring 17 points on Feb. 17 - his 17th birthday. He shot 7-of-13 overall for the Indians, who shot 13-of-21 (62 percent) in the second half after hitting for just 36 percent in the first.
Greg Kahlig added 10 points, Diller had nine and Aaron Kahlig score eight.
Metzger finished with a game-high nine rebounds and team-high six assists.
Isaac Bower shot 7-of-14 from the field for 22 points to lead Spencerville, while also dishing out seven assists. Logan Nourse followed with 14 points, seven rebounds and three steals.
Junior varsity
Fort Recovery couldn't get much to fall in overtime, falling 53-50 to the Bearcats.
The Indians went just 2-of-7 (29 percent) from the field in overtime. Spencerville also hit just two shots, including a 3-pointer, but did so in three attempts and buried a couple free throws to eke out the win.
Zach Bowers paced the home team with 13 points. Daniel Ryder followed with 10 points and a game-high nine rebounds to lead the Bearcats to a 29-18 rebounding advantage.
Fort Recovery fell just short, despite having three players reach double figures. Josh Wendel set the pace with 14 points, and Wes Kahlig and Brent Faller followed with 12 and 10 respectively.
Curt Heitkamp had five assists, four rebounds and three steals.[[In-content Ad]]
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