Tribe earns sectional bye

FORT RECOVERY - The Arcanum Trojans made Saturday difficult for the Indians. But they were still rewarded with a bye Sunday.

A day after dropping a double-header 5-1 and 13-0 in five innings to Arcanum, the Fort Recovery High School softball team picked up the No. 2 seed in the Division III softball sectional tournament hosted by Elida.

The Tribe (10-9) and top-seeded Parkway will each get first-round byes and advance to sectional championship games May 11 and 12 respectively.

Fort Recovery will play the winner of Saturday's sectional semifinal game between Liberty-Benton and Coldwater (7-12) while Parkway will get either Paulding or Lima Central Catholic.

The two sectional champions will advance to the district tournament hosted by Bath. Fort Recovery defeated Coldwater 6-0 in their meeting April 20.

In their games Saturday, the Indians struggled to get much offense going against Arcanum. They manged just a single run on six hits, including two from Janelle Schwieterman, in the opener, and got just a Stacy Gehle single in the second.

Marissa Brunswick doubled and scored the Tribe's only run of the day, and Josie Guggenbiller had a single and an RBI.

Andi Sutter took the game-one loss, allowing five runs - three earned - on 11 hits and two walks. Shelby Brunswick gave up 13 runs - six earned - on nine hits and four walks in the second game.

Baseball falls in five

ST. HENRY, Ohio - The Division III No. 5 St. Henry Redskins were too strong for the Indians Friday night, handing them a 12-0 defeat in five innings. Also Sunday, the Indians drew an opening-round game against Parkway in the sectional tournament.

Nathan Keller took the loss for Fort Recovery (1-12), allowing 11 runs - nine earned - on eight hits and two walks in 2 2/3 innings. St. Henry took control with a seven-run third inning and held the Indians without a hit for the second straight game.

The Tribe also suffered a no-hitter Thursday against Celina, and managed just a single hit in their loss Tuesday to New Knoxville.

Fort Recovery will play Parkway, a team it lost to 15-5 in five innings April 13, in the opening round of the Division IV sectional tournament Saturday at 11 a.m. The other opening-round game will pit Marion Local against New Bremen at 1:30 p.m.

The winners will advance to take on New Knoxville and Minster respectively on Wednesday, May 12.

Mattraw places 3rd

COLDWATER, Ohio - Bobby Mattraw turned in the top finish for the Fort Recovery Middle School track teams Friday at the Cavalier Relays.

Fort Recovery's girls team was seventh out of eight teams with 21 points, and the boys were last with 12 points. Minster won both the boys and girls competitions.

Mattraw led the Tribe boys by taking third in the shot put at 38 feet, 10 inches. FRMS was also third in the 1,600-meter sprint medley with Josh Pohl, Kent Retz and David Trobridge joining Mattraw for a time of 4 minutes, 28.66 seconds.

David Trobridge, Isaac Keller, Joe Gonzalez and Pohl placed fourth in the 4,000 distance medley in 13:48.7, and Elle Sutter, Katie Braun, Jessica Vogel and Sam Kaiser were fourth in 14:56.9 in the distance medley.[[In-content Ad]]