Tribe blasts NBHS

FORT RECOVERY — Through two innings, it appeared as if the Indians and Cardinals were in for a low-scoring affair.
The game got out of hand in a hurry.
Fort Recovery High School’s baseball team opened Midwest Athletic Conference play Thursday with a 10-0 thrashing of the New Bremen Cardinals in five innings.
The Indians (6-3, 1-0 MAC) led 1-0 after the second inning, before breaking the game open with four runs in the third. They tacked on five more in the bottom of the fourth, and kept the Cardinals from reaching home in the top of the fifth to get the lopsided victory.
Cade Wendel and Hunter Boughman each ripped doubles for the Indians. Jackson Hobbs, Jacob Homan and Will Homan also added hits for the Tribe. Wendel, Hobbs and Jacob Homan had two RBIs each.
Wendel started on the bump for FRHS, tossing four innings, only allowing one hit and striking out three. He notched the win, moving to 2-0. Reese Rogers pitched an inning of relief and fanned each batter he faced.

Cards shut out FR
NEW BREMEN, Ohio — Fort Recovery’s softball team mustered just one hit Thursday in a 3-0 loss to the New Bremen Cardinals.
Fort Recovery (1-7, 0-1 Midwest Athletic Conference) fell behind 1-0 after the first inning, and the Cardinals tacked on two more runs in the third inning to complete the scoring.
Devin Post smacked a single for the Indians, and she has now hit safely in all eight games this season.
The Tribe totaled nine strikeouts at the dish.
Chelsea Timmerman took the loss on the mound. She scattered five hits over six innings, allowed three runs — two earned — while striking out five.

Bulldogs top SA
BERNE — The South Adams softball team struck out 18 times Thursday in a 3-0 loss to New Haven.
The Bulldogs broke a scoreless tie in the top of the fourth inning with a pair of runs, and added some insurance an inning later to take a 3-0 lead.
South Adams managed only four hits off New Haven pitcher Hadley Decker. She did not allow a walk in seven innings.
Maddie Morgan had two hits and a pair of stolen bases for the Starfires (2-1). Isabella Ramirez and Keirstyn Grimm each had singles, and Grimm added a stolen base.
One day after striking out 14 in a 13-3 victory against Canterbury, Katelin Augsburger struck out nine Bulldog players. She has now recorded 40 strikeouts in 20 innings of work.
Stars fall 6-3
NEW HAVEN — One crooked inning proved to be the difference Thursday as the South Adams baseball team fell to New Haven, 6-3.
South Adams (2-2) jumped on top 1-0 until the Bulldogs scored four runs during the third for a 4-1 advantage. The Stars cut into the deficit with a run in the fourth before the home team got the run back in the bottom of the frame.
New Haven added one more run in the fifth to lead 6-2, and South Adams scored its last run of the game in the top of the sixth.
Mark Clary, Justin Nussbaum and Jayden Dull had one hit apiece for South Adams. Braxton Haight and Tyler Sprunger each drew a walk.
Dull (0-1) suffered the loss, giving up three earned runs on two hits and walking three in 2 1/3 innings. Isaiah Baumgartner and Clary also pitched, giving up two and one run respectively. They each surrendered three hits.

SA tennis loses
OSSIAN — South Adams’ girls tennis team fell to 1-1 on the season Thursday with a 4-1 loss to the Norwell Knights.
The Starfires’ No. 2 doubles team of Breanna Potts and Haley Gerber picked up the only victory, rallying from a 6-2 loss in the first set to win the next two 7-6, 7-6.
At No. 1 doubles, Riley Liechty and Kylea Pierce fell to Madison Oates an Kylie Gerber 6-4, 5-7.
All three singles matches lasted three sets, but none went in favor of the visitors.
Brittany Potts won the first set against Molly Burton at No. 1 singles 7-5, but dropped the final two 6-2, 6-3. At No. 2 singles, Julia Grabau lost to Cierra Middleton 6-0, 1-6, 6-4, and Caralie Farlow fell at No. 3 singles to Caitlynn Griggs 6-3, 1-6, 6-1.