Kaup, Diller lead the way for Tribe runners

WEST MILTON, Ohio — The girls team is holding strong after losing three scoring seniors.

The boys are starting to form a consistent top five.

The Fort Recovery High School cross country teams competed at the Bob Schul Invitational on Saturday at Lowry Track Complex XC Course.

The girls climbed half way up the standings to finish eighth with 244 points. Summit County Day school earned the top spot with 62 points, just six more than fellow Midwest Athletic Conference school Minster. The Indians finished behind two more MAC teams as Versailles scored 168 and St. Henry with 228.

The boys claimed 23rd place out of 28 teams. The Indians finished with 593 points, while Versailles’ 56 dominated the field for first place.

Joelle Kaup paced the girls, finishing 22nd in 21 minutes, 43.6 seconds. Freshman Riley Heitkamp claimed the second-best time for the Indians at 22:26.1. She finished 38th to score 36 points for FRHS.

Following were Anna Roessner in 42nd (22:36.8), Maddie Heitkamp in 72nd (23:52.3) and Kendall Ranley in 118th (26:04.5). 

Also computing, Nichole Braun ran a time of 26:57.4 to place 134th.

Reese Diller led the boys for the second meet, finishing the race in 18:53.2 to claim 85th place.

Evan Evers claimed the second-best time for the Tribe at 19:47.7 to earn 126th.

Other scores came from Milo Fiely in 184th (21:04.4), Russell Hart in 201st (21:32.4) and Evan Diller  in 211th (21:43.7).

Henry Jutte and Charlie Stammen finished together to take up scores in the sixth and seventh places for Fort Recovery, by netting times of 23:04.3 and 23:04.7 for 262nd and 263, respectively. Mason Laux and Chase Filey also finished with Jutte and Stammen, securing 264th and 265th with  times of 23:40.8 and 23:04.9, respectively.