July 23, 2014 at 2:10 p.m.
Roughia signs letter of intent for Huntington College (12/11/04)
Collegiate check-up
With success comes advancement. Jill Roughia has become the latest member of the Jay County girls cross country and track prove that point.
Roughia, a senior, signed a letter of intent recently to compete in both sports next year at Huntington College.
Her signing marks the second straight year a Patriot runner will move on to the next level after Nicole VanSkyock competed as a freshman at Anderson University this year.
Roughia was a member of this year’s cross country team, which won a third consecutive Olympic Athletic Conference championship. She finished seventh in the conference individually.
She placed 11th for this year’s sectional runner-up cross country team, and was a member of the 2003 squad which won the team title.
In track, Roughia had several career highlights during her junior season.
She won her first sectional title at Muncie Southside, taking the 800-meter run in 2-minutes, 27.12 seconds. She, VanSkyock and teammates Alyssa Johnson and Rose Weaver also teamed to set the school record in the 4x800-meter relay in 2003 with a time of 10:12.04.
Sara Heitkamp
A Fort Recovery graduate, she was named the Ohio Athletic Conference women’s basketball player of the week for Nov. 28 through Dec. 4.
Heitkamp, class of 2002, scored a season-high 31 points against Mount Vernon as she totaled 44 in a pair of wins for her fifth-ranked Capital Crusaders. She added 20 rebounds, 10 assists and 10 steals.
She capped her award-winning week with 13 points and 13 rebounds in a 79-57 beating of Muskingum College. She also had seven assists and seven steals in the game.
Heitkamp was outstanding again Thursday, finishing 6-of-8 from the field and 4-of-4 from the line for 16 points in a 76-51 destruction of Bluffton College. She added five assists, three rebounds and three steals.
She also had four points, five assists, four rebounds and two steals in a 77-63 victory over Marietta College Wednesday.
The Crusaders (7-0) are led by Heitkamp in just about every statistical category. She is second in the conference in points (16.9 per game) and steals (31), third in assists (29) and fifth in rebounds (6.9). She is shooting 53 percent from the field thus far.
Joanie Muhlenkamp
The Taylor University-Fort Wayne junior and Jay County graduate was one of three players to score in double figures as the women’s basketball team dropped a 73-61 decision to Manchester College Wednesday.
Muhlenkamp started for the Falcons and scored 10 points, including a 4-of-4 effort from the free-throw line. She added six rebounds, two assists and one steal.
Kyle Weaver
The 2003 Jay County graduate joined a couple of teammates in posting three top-eight finishes in the 50- and 100-yard freestyle as the Wabash College swim team finished second at the DePauw Invitational last week.
Weaver was fourth in the 50-yard freestyle in 22.11 seconds. His teammate Colin Fahey won in 21.96, and Matt Perkins was fifth.
Perkins took third in the 100-yard freestyle, with Chad Damitz in seventh and Weaver filling the eighth spot in 50.99.
Weaver’s best individual finish came in the 100-yard butterfly where he placed third in 53.05.
He teamed with Tony Caldwell, Ben Hewitt and Brad Williams for 11th in the 400-yard medley relay in 3-minutes, 41.47 seconds, and joined Williams, Hewitt and Barron Hewetson for 11th in the 400-yard freestyle relay in 3:27.31.
Andrew Wells
A 2002 Jay County graduate, he added three top-16 finishes for the Wabash Little Giants at DePauw.
Wells’s top effort came in the 500-yard freestyle, in which he placed 15th in 5-minutes, 20.96 seconds. He was 16th in the 200-yard freestyle in 1:59.71 and the 1,650-yard freestyle in 18:57.22.
Abby Arnold
The 2002 graduate of Jay County notched a top-10 finish as the Ball State women’s swim team placed second at the University of Akron’s Zippy Invitational last week.
Arnold placed 10th in the 50-yard freestyle with a career-best time of 24.45 seconds. She was 25th in both the 100-yard freestyle and the 100-yard backstroke in times of 54.21 and 1-minute, 2.53 seconds, both personal bests.
She recorded personal-best splits in all three of her relays, including the 200-yard freestyle relay in which she, Ashley Vanosdol, Karla Bailey and Sarah Welter finished second behind Tulane by just three hundredths in 1:36.66.
Arnold joined Brittany Sayler, Sarah King and Addison Del Rio for fourth in the 400-yard freestyle relay in 3:33.28, and teamed with Welter, Nicole Rambeau and Jen Beresheim for seventh in the 200-yard medley relay in 1:50.45.
Tyler Niekamp
The Fort Recovery graduate scored six points for the Findlay University men’s basketball team as it crushed winless West Virginia Wesleyan 91-56 Dec. 4. The Oilers are 5-1 on the season and ranked 13th in the country in Division II.
Niekamp went 2-of-4 from the field and hit his only 3-point attempt for the night. He also grabbed seven rebounds in 14 minutes of play.
He added one rebound in six minutes in a 74-53 victory over Gannon.
Dustin Overton
A 2004 graduate of Jay County, he scored six points off the bench for the Ancilla College men’s basketball team in an 81-68 loss to the Indiana Tech junior varsity squad.
Overton also played in a 92-77 victory over prairie State Junior College, scoring two points.
Amy Meyer
The South Adams graduate was one of four University of St. Francis players to score in double figures as the Cougar women’s basketball team defeated Spring Arbor University 81-70.
Meyer finished with 11 points.[[In-content Ad]]
Roughia, a senior, signed a letter of intent recently to compete in both sports next year at Huntington College.
Her signing marks the second straight year a Patriot runner will move on to the next level after Nicole VanSkyock competed as a freshman at Anderson University this year.
Roughia was a member of this year’s cross country team, which won a third consecutive Olympic Athletic Conference championship. She finished seventh in the conference individually.
She placed 11th for this year’s sectional runner-up cross country team, and was a member of the 2003 squad which won the team title.
In track, Roughia had several career highlights during her junior season.
She won her first sectional title at Muncie Southside, taking the 800-meter run in 2-minutes, 27.12 seconds. She, VanSkyock and teammates Alyssa Johnson and Rose Weaver also teamed to set the school record in the 4x800-meter relay in 2003 with a time of 10:12.04.
Sara Heitkamp
A Fort Recovery graduate, she was named the Ohio Athletic Conference women’s basketball player of the week for Nov. 28 through Dec. 4.
Heitkamp, class of 2002, scored a season-high 31 points against Mount Vernon as she totaled 44 in a pair of wins for her fifth-ranked Capital Crusaders. She added 20 rebounds, 10 assists and 10 steals.
She capped her award-winning week with 13 points and 13 rebounds in a 79-57 beating of Muskingum College. She also had seven assists and seven steals in the game.
Heitkamp was outstanding again Thursday, finishing 6-of-8 from the field and 4-of-4 from the line for 16 points in a 76-51 destruction of Bluffton College. She added five assists, three rebounds and three steals.
She also had four points, five assists, four rebounds and two steals in a 77-63 victory over Marietta College Wednesday.
The Crusaders (7-0) are led by Heitkamp in just about every statistical category. She is second in the conference in points (16.9 per game) and steals (31), third in assists (29) and fifth in rebounds (6.9). She is shooting 53 percent from the field thus far.
Joanie Muhlenkamp
The Taylor University-Fort Wayne junior and Jay County graduate was one of three players to score in double figures as the women’s basketball team dropped a 73-61 decision to Manchester College Wednesday.
Muhlenkamp started for the Falcons and scored 10 points, including a 4-of-4 effort from the free-throw line. She added six rebounds, two assists and one steal.
Kyle Weaver
The 2003 Jay County graduate joined a couple of teammates in posting three top-eight finishes in the 50- and 100-yard freestyle as the Wabash College swim team finished second at the DePauw Invitational last week.
Weaver was fourth in the 50-yard freestyle in 22.11 seconds. His teammate Colin Fahey won in 21.96, and Matt Perkins was fifth.
Perkins took third in the 100-yard freestyle, with Chad Damitz in seventh and Weaver filling the eighth spot in 50.99.
Weaver’s best individual finish came in the 100-yard butterfly where he placed third in 53.05.
He teamed with Tony Caldwell, Ben Hewitt and Brad Williams for 11th in the 400-yard medley relay in 3-minutes, 41.47 seconds, and joined Williams, Hewitt and Barron Hewetson for 11th in the 400-yard freestyle relay in 3:27.31.
Andrew Wells
A 2002 Jay County graduate, he added three top-16 finishes for the Wabash Little Giants at DePauw.
Wells’s top effort came in the 500-yard freestyle, in which he placed 15th in 5-minutes, 20.96 seconds. He was 16th in the 200-yard freestyle in 1:59.71 and the 1,650-yard freestyle in 18:57.22.
Abby Arnold
The 2002 graduate of Jay County notched a top-10 finish as the Ball State women’s swim team placed second at the University of Akron’s Zippy Invitational last week.
Arnold placed 10th in the 50-yard freestyle with a career-best time of 24.45 seconds. She was 25th in both the 100-yard freestyle and the 100-yard backstroke in times of 54.21 and 1-minute, 2.53 seconds, both personal bests.
She recorded personal-best splits in all three of her relays, including the 200-yard freestyle relay in which she, Ashley Vanosdol, Karla Bailey and Sarah Welter finished second behind Tulane by just three hundredths in 1:36.66.
Arnold joined Brittany Sayler, Sarah King and Addison Del Rio for fourth in the 400-yard freestyle relay in 3:33.28, and teamed with Welter, Nicole Rambeau and Jen Beresheim for seventh in the 200-yard medley relay in 1:50.45.
Tyler Niekamp
The Fort Recovery graduate scored six points for the Findlay University men’s basketball team as it crushed winless West Virginia Wesleyan 91-56 Dec. 4. The Oilers are 5-1 on the season and ranked 13th in the country in Division II.
Niekamp went 2-of-4 from the field and hit his only 3-point attempt for the night. He also grabbed seven rebounds in 14 minutes of play.
He added one rebound in six minutes in a 74-53 victory over Gannon.
Dustin Overton
A 2004 graduate of Jay County, he scored six points off the bench for the Ancilla College men’s basketball team in an 81-68 loss to the Indiana Tech junior varsity squad.
Overton also played in a 92-77 victory over prairie State Junior College, scoring two points.
Amy Meyer
The South Adams graduate was one of four University of St. Francis players to score in double figures as the Cougar women’s basketball team defeated Spring Arbor University 81-70.
Meyer finished with 11 points.[[In-content Ad]]
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