Fort Recovery defeats Shawnee

FORT RECOVERY – The two Indian squads played even in the first, third and fourth quarters. It was the host team’s dominance in the second that made the difference.
Fort Recovery High School’s boys basketball team held the visiting Shawnee Indians (Lima) to just two second-quarter points Saturday as it picked up a 49-41 victory.
FRHS (6-1), which got a game-high 19 points from Elijah Kahlig, outscored Shawnee 9-2 in the second quarter as it held the visitors to 1-for-8 shooting with three turnovers. Kahlig hit a 3-pointer on the first possession of the second half for a 12-point lead, and the home team stayed ahead by at least seven the rest of the way.
Wade Gelhaus followed Kahlig with 11 points and also had game highs of 15 rebounds and six assists. Mason Evers scored 10 points. Trey Brock had 11 points for Shawnee.
The FRHS junior varsity team came back after trailing by eight at the end of the opening quarter for a 49-47 victory.
Wes Wenning scored 12 points, and Dillon Whitacre and Darien Sheffer each added 11.

SA seventh at duals
WESTFIELD – The South Adams wrestling team went 1-2 Saturday to finish seventh in Class 1A in the Indiana High School Wrestling Coaches Association Team State Duals. The Starfires lost their first two matches 42-37 to Cass and 36-33 to Bremen before winning the seventh-place match 41-40 over South Putnam.
Sophomore Sawyer Miller (113), who placed fourth in the state last season at 106 pounds, led the Starfires as he finished 3-0 with two pins and a technical fall. Boaz Marbach (138) and Klayton Hinshaw (170) were also 3-0 with two pins apiece, and Eric Pimentel (132) won both of his contested matches with pins.
SAHS also lost 45-33 to Bellmont on Thursday. Wins came from Miller, Pimentel, Hinshaw, Mavrick Morningstar and Andrew Beachey.

Tribe girls roll
PITSBURG, Ohio – A strong second half lifted the Fort Recovery girls basketball team to a 58-41 victory Saturday over the host Franklin-Monroe Jets.
The Indians (7-1) were up by just four at the half, and that lead dwindled when Franklin-Monroe’s Taylor Robins hit a 3-pointer to open the third quarter. But FRHS responded with a 14-2 run to take control and kept a double-digit lead throughout the fourth.
Sophomore Tori Lennartz recorded a double-double for Fort Recovery with game highs of 18 points and 11 rebounds. Sierra Pugh added 11 points, and Kelsey Fiely and Kara Jutte each scored 10. Jutte grabbed six rebounds, and Pugh dished out five assists. Robins paced the Jets with 16 points.
FRHS took a 17-point halftime lead in the junior varsity game and won 41-21. Haley Knapke led with 13 points and six rebounds.[[In-content Ad]]