Tribe girls take eighth at Treaty City

GREENVILLE, Ohio — The Indians didn’t have their strongest performance when they raced at Jay County on Thursday.

That warm up helped prep the girls for a strong showing over the weekend.

Fort Recovery High School’s girls cross country team claimed eighth place at the City Treaty Invitational at Greenville City Park on Saturday, while the boys took 23rd to avoid the bottom spot.

The girls totaled 220 points to take eighth out of 17 teams, falling 15 points short of Midwest Athletic Conference rival St. Henry. Fort Loramie took the top spot with 77 points. The boys’ 555 points beat out Sidney (618) to avoid 24th place, while Versailles finished on top with 39.

Joelle Kaup paced the Indians with a time of 21 minutes, 21 seconds and a 12th-place finish. Riley Heitkamp followed with her career-best time of 22:03.3 for 23rd.

Anna Roessner (22:21.3), Maddie Heitkamp (23:35.3) and Kendall Ranley (25:57.7) rounded out the scoring by placing 34th, 65th and 111th, respectively.

Reese Diller led the boys with an 18:48, good for 59th place. Evan Evers followed in 115th with a time of 20:19.4.

Russell Hart and Milo Filey finished back-to-back in 133rd and 134th with times of 21:10.2 and 21:13.1.

Evan Diller rounded out the score with a 21:57.4 to come in 143rd.

Tribe falls short

ARCANUM, Ohio — The Fort Recovery volleyball team dropped its second match of the season 25-23, 25-17, 14-25, 16-25, 15-11 to the Arcanum Trojans on Saturday.

Karlie Niekamp and Kennedy Muhlenkamp led the offensive attack with 13 kills each, while Cameron Muhlenkamp added 12. Kayla Heitkamp assisted the hitters a career-best 41 times in the match.

The Indians (3-2) had a balanced defense against Arcanum (6-0) as Niekamp, Brynn Willmann and Bridget Homan all had three blocks and five players had double digit digs. Homan led with 20 digs, while Kennedy and Cameron Muhlenkamp followed with 16 and 15.

FRHS and the Trojans played an even match as the Tribe nearly matched Arcanum statistically.