Indians pick up third-straight win

BERNE — The Indians’ offense has started to come on as of late.

Macy Pries did everything in her power to prevent a loss, but couldn’t completely counter the Indinans’ guard play.

Cali Wendel and Makenna Huelskamp combined for 34 points to lead the Fort Recovery High School girls basketball team past the South Adams Starfires 52-46 on Tuesday.

Trailing by eight entering the fourth quarter, the Fort Recovery (5-8) guards took over offensively to help score 20 in the quarter and lead the Indians to their third-straight victory.

Huelskamp and Wendel both hit a pair of threes and combined for 5-of-10 at the free-throw line in the final quarter. The other three FRHS points came on a basket by Sophia Guggenbiller and a Karlie Niekamp free throw.

Outside of the fourth-quarter scoring, Wendle hit a three in each quarter, while Hueslkamp worked inside the arc, finishing one bucket in the first and two with a pair of free throws in the second. They had 18 and 16 points, respectively.

Pries led South Adams (6-13) in scoring with 25 points, all of which came inside the arc or at the free-throw line (7-of-12).

The SAHS senior had all six of the Starfires’ points in the final period.

Indians split

MUNCIE — The Fort Recovery girls swim team split in a double-dual with Delta and Muncie Burris on Tuesday in a meet hosted by Delta.

The Indians had no trouble racking up points on Muncie Burris, pulling out a 64-18 victory, but fell to Delta 75-27. The two schools swept the boys team as Delta won 74-15 and Muncie Burris took the meet 57-19.

Paige Fortkamp claimed the only first-place finish for the girls team. Her time of 2 minutes, 4.07 seconds, beat the Delta’s Camry Hensley by over 10 seconds in the 200-yard freestyle.

Fortkamp also earned second in the 100 butterfly, coming up 6.83 seconds short of the top spot.

Sage Wendel put together the strongest performance for the boys with a pair of victories. He broke his own record at FRHS in the 500 freestyle with a time of 5:29.95, which decimated the field by 20 seconds.

The senior also claimed the 50 freestyle in 24.32.

Two more wins

HARTFORD CITY — The Jay County Junior High girls basketball team swept the Blackford Bruins, allowing 11 total points between the eighth and seventh grade teams.

Karsyn Schwieterman was the top scorer of the day, putting up 15 points and the seventh graders won 42-5.

Charlee Peters also scored in double figures for the younger team (14-0). She had 10 while Claudia Dirksen was one basket away with eight.

The eighth grade team dominated in a 48-6 beatdown of the Bruins. Amelia Heath led the way with 14 points while Elizabeth Brunswick scored 11 for the eighth graders (13-1). Kylie Shannon followed with nine points.

Second in bronze

CARMEL — Brinley Steury and Carlie Runkle put together strong days for the JC Flipsters as they competed at the Yellow Brick Road Invitational on Sunday.

Steury placed first in all four events with scores of 9.65 in vault, 9.55 on the balance beam, 9.3 on the floor and 9.25 on the bars. She finished first overall in her age group with a 37.75 score to help the Xcel bronze team that earned second overall.

Runkle also boosted the bronze team with a trio of victories. Her top all-around score of 37.8 points was fueled by wins with scores of 9.5 in both the balance beam competition and on the floor and a first-place finish on the bars (9.45).

Jordyn Champ led the Xcel gold team with the second-best all around score of 35.8 points. She held the top performance in the vault with a score of 9.3.

The Xcel silver team’s leader was Eden Lee. She finished third all around at 36.775 points. Lee also had a score of 9.3 to claim the vault competition.