Fort Recovery falls to Flyers

MARIA STEIN, Ohio — The Indians trailed from the start.
They had a difficult time keeping up down the stretch.
The Fort Recovery High School boys basketball team dropped its final Midwest Athletic Conference game of the season Friday in a 71-46 loss to the Marion Local Flyers.
Marion Local (17-4, 8-1 MAC) opened the game on an 8-0 run before Fort Recovery (7-15, 2-7) finally scored on a bucket by Derek Backs. The Flyers pushed the lead to double digits, 16-4, with 3:04 left in the first quarter, and the Indians would not get the deficit to single digits despite finding themselves trailing by 10 points on three separate occasions.
Marion Local, which held Fort Recovery to six and eight points respectively in the first and second quarters, led 18-6 after eight minutes and 37-14 at halftime.
The Indians put up a fight in the third, however, outscoring the Flyers 18-10, but the home team turned around and poured in 24 points in the final quarter for the lopsided victory.
Darien Sheffer scored 11 points and grabbed six rebounds to lead Fort Recovery, which also got seven points each from Caleb Martin and Micaiah Cox.
Chase Bruns and Kyle Schroer both chipped in with six points, and Backs tallied five.
Cole Griesdorn paced the Flyers with 14 points, with Dustin Rethman and Ryan Bruns each adding a dozen.