April 24, 2015 at 5:25 p.m.
Fort Recovery ekes out 5-4 win over Versailles
FORT RECOVERY — Fort Recovery’s baseball team has had to come from behind on a few occasions in its previous 14 wins.
Junior Jacob Homan and senior Derek Backs led the Tribe’s latest rally.
Trailing the Versailles Tigers 4-3 in the bottom of the fifth inning Thursday, Homan drove in Mitchel Stammen on a sacrifice fly to tie the game and Backs knocked in Cole Wendel with the game-winning single as the Indians won, 5-4.
Fort Recovery, the top-ranked team in Division IV, moves to 15-0 and 4-0 in the Midwest Athletic Conference.
Backs tallied three of the Indians’ six hits, including a double, driving in two runs. Ben Will, Wendel and Stammen each had hits.
Wendel won his team-leading fifth game of the season, allowing four runs (one earned) while scattering six hits and striking out two in five innings. Jackson Hobbs recorded his first save of the season.
Tribe boys, girls third
FORT RECOVERY — The Fort Recovery boys and girls track teams both finished third in a quad meet Thursday.
Junior Jacob Homan and senior Derek Backs led the Tribe’s latest rally.
Trailing the Versailles Tigers 4-3 in the bottom of the fifth inning Thursday, Homan drove in Mitchel Stammen on a sacrifice fly to tie the game and Backs knocked in Cole Wendel with the game-winning single as the Indians won, 5-4.
Fort Recovery, the top-ranked team in Division IV, moves to 15-0 and 4-0 in the Midwest Athletic Conference.
Backs tallied three of the Indians’ six hits, including a double, driving in two runs. Ben Will, Wendel and Stammen each had hits.
Wendel won his team-leading fifth game of the season, allowing four runs (one earned) while scattering six hits and striking out two in five innings. Jackson Hobbs recorded his first save of the season.
Tribe boys, girls third
FORT RECOVERY — The Fort Recovery boys and girls track teams both finished third in a quad meet Thursday.
Russia swept the meet, winning the girls’ competition with 91 points and taking the boys’ side with 98 points. Celina was runner up in both as well, scoring 67 and 63.5 points respectively. The FRHS girls scored 64 points, with the Tribe boys totaling 47.
New Knoxville’s girls scored 15 points, and the boys had 39.5.
Alexis Hobbs and Caitlyn Huelskamp earned individual victories for the FRHS girls. Hobbs was first in the 300-meter hurdles, finishing with a time of 53.7 seconds. Huelskamp cleared 4 feet, 4 inches, to win the high jump.
Brittany Jutte, Emily May and Kiah Wendel joined Alyssa Post to get an uncontested win in the 4x200 relay, and the trio teamed with Carissa Evers to finish first in the 4x100 relay in 56.9 seconds.
Cole Hull and Tyler Acheson were the only two winners for the Tribe boys. Hull finished first in the 100 dash in 11.3 seconds, and Acheson won the shot put with a distance of 42 feet, 1/2 inch.
Flyers top Tribe
MARIA STEIN, Ohio — The Fort Recovery softball team lost its 11th game of the season Thursday in a 9-0 defeat by the Marion Local Flyers.
The loss pushed the Tribe’s losing streak to 30 games.
Marion Local (3-3, 1-1 MAC) jumped on the Indians with two runs in the first inning, and added one more in the third before a four-run fourth. The Flyers created more separation with a pair of runs in the sixth.
Chelsea Timmerman and Sydney Dues both had a pair of hits for the Indians (0-11, 0-3 MAC). Emily Hart and Kasey Vogel also tallied hits.
Blomeke blast lifts SA
BERNE — Corbin Blomeke made the most of his opportunities at the plate on Thursday.
The South Adams sophomore hit the first home run of his career as part of a seven-run sixth inning, helping the host Starfires to a 15-10 victory against the Bluffton Tigers.
Blomeke added a triple and a single to finish with a team-high three hits. He also walked once, drove in three runs and scored four times as the Starfires (7-4) won their Allen County Athletic Conference opener.
South Adams had an 8-4 lead heading into the top of the fifth, but Bluffton struck for five runs in the sixth to take a 9-8 advantage.
Connor Sealscott scored to tie the game on an error in the sixth inning, and Blomeke’s two-run shot later in the inning put South Adams back on top for good.
Derek Wanner, Skylar Schoch and Justin Nussbaum each added two hits apiece, with Wanner driving in three runs and scoring twice.
Stars fall in shootout
BERNE — The South Adams Softball team went toe-to-toe with the visiting Bluffton Tigers through two innings.
Both teams scored one run in the first and six in the second.
But the visiting Tigers pulled away in the third, winning a slugfest over the Starfires, 23-12.
Bluffton had a 10-8 lead after three innings, but scored six and seven runs in the final two innings. Trailing 23-9 heading into the bottom of the seventh, South Adams mounted a comeback, but only scored three runs.
Lauren Smith sparked the offense for South Adams (5-4, 0-1 ACAC), hitting a grand slam as part of the Starfires’ six-run second.
Maddie Morgan had a double and a single while driving in two runs, with Loren Sparks, Casi Evans and Cindy In’t Groen each adding a pair of singles.
New Knoxville’s girls scored 15 points, and the boys had 39.5.
Alexis Hobbs and Caitlyn Huelskamp earned individual victories for the FRHS girls. Hobbs was first in the 300-meter hurdles, finishing with a time of 53.7 seconds. Huelskamp cleared 4 feet, 4 inches, to win the high jump.
Brittany Jutte, Emily May and Kiah Wendel joined Alyssa Post to get an uncontested win in the 4x200 relay, and the trio teamed with Carissa Evers to finish first in the 4x100 relay in 56.9 seconds.
Cole Hull and Tyler Acheson were the only two winners for the Tribe boys. Hull finished first in the 100 dash in 11.3 seconds, and Acheson won the shot put with a distance of 42 feet, 1/2 inch.
Flyers top Tribe
MARIA STEIN, Ohio — The Fort Recovery softball team lost its 11th game of the season Thursday in a 9-0 defeat by the Marion Local Flyers.
The loss pushed the Tribe’s losing streak to 30 games.
Marion Local (3-3, 1-1 MAC) jumped on the Indians with two runs in the first inning, and added one more in the third before a four-run fourth. The Flyers created more separation with a pair of runs in the sixth.
Chelsea Timmerman and Sydney Dues both had a pair of hits for the Indians (0-11, 0-3 MAC). Emily Hart and Kasey Vogel also tallied hits.
Blomeke blast lifts SA
BERNE — Corbin Blomeke made the most of his opportunities at the plate on Thursday.
The South Adams sophomore hit the first home run of his career as part of a seven-run sixth inning, helping the host Starfires to a 15-10 victory against the Bluffton Tigers.
Blomeke added a triple and a single to finish with a team-high three hits. He also walked once, drove in three runs and scored four times as the Starfires (7-4) won their Allen County Athletic Conference opener.
South Adams had an 8-4 lead heading into the top of the fifth, but Bluffton struck for five runs in the sixth to take a 9-8 advantage.
Connor Sealscott scored to tie the game on an error in the sixth inning, and Blomeke’s two-run shot later in the inning put South Adams back on top for good.
Derek Wanner, Skylar Schoch and Justin Nussbaum each added two hits apiece, with Wanner driving in three runs and scoring twice.
Stars fall in shootout
BERNE — The South Adams Softball team went toe-to-toe with the visiting Bluffton Tigers through two innings.
Both teams scored one run in the first and six in the second.
But the visiting Tigers pulled away in the third, winning a slugfest over the Starfires, 23-12.
Bluffton had a 10-8 lead after three innings, but scored six and seven runs in the final two innings. Trailing 23-9 heading into the bottom of the seventh, South Adams mounted a comeback, but only scored three runs.
Lauren Smith sparked the offense for South Adams (5-4, 0-1 ACAC), hitting a grand slam as part of the Starfires’ six-run second.
Maddie Morgan had a double and a single while driving in two runs, with Loren Sparks, Casi Evans and Cindy In’t Groen each adding a pair of singles.
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