Fort softball makes ’Riders pay for mistakes

FORT RECOVERY — The Roughriders had trouble in the field.

The Indians made them pay.

Fort Recovery High School’s softball team benefitted from 10 errors in a 14-4 win against the St. Marys Memorial Roughriders on Thursday.

The Indians (8-10) avenged a 7-2 loss to the Roughriders on April 9.

Fort Recovery, which begins tournament play Thursday at home, jumped out to a 5-1 lead after the first inning before a 7-4 lead at the end of the third inning.

The Tribe scored seven more runs in the home half of the fifth, capped by an Olivia Homan RBI single to drive in Taylor Grisez as the winning run.

Hannah Knapke was 2-for-3 with two doubles, two RBIs and a pair of runs. Homan had a double, two singles and three RBIs, while Rachel Thien knocked in two runs on three singles. Lydia Wenning contributed a double and Brenna Homan collected two hits.

Olivia Homan allowed four runs — none earned — on five hits. She walked one.



Stars stay in first

BERNE — The South Adams baseball team stayed put at the top of the conference standings by beating Southern Wells on Thursday, 11-5.

It was the 11th consecutive victory for the Class 2A No. 2 Starfires (15-1, 4-0 Allen County Athletic Conference).

The Starfires jumped on the Raiders to the tune of seven runs in the home half of the first inning. The advantage was 9-1 after three innings before the Raiders trimmed the score to 10-3 heading into the fourth. It was 11-3 until Southern Wells plated two runs in the top of the seventh.

Grant Besser had two doubles, a single and four RBIs for the Starfires. Keagan Yoder notched a double, two singles, three runs and an RBI. Collin Shaffer contributed a double and a single, and Isaiah Baumgartner also hit a double.

SA routs Raiders

BERNE — South Adams’ softball team scored 15 times in the third inning Thursday en route to a 20-1 rout of the Southern Wells Raiders.

The Class 2A No. 4 Starfires (13-3, 4-0 Allen County Athletic Conference), who have won three in a row now following three straight losses, remain atop the conference standings.

Kayla LeFever had a double and three singles with five RBIs for South Adams. Jenna Myers hit a double and two singles with three RBIs, and Emilie Hammell collected three hits. Jade Baker, Alivia Bergman and LeFever all scored three times.

Anna Nussbaum threw five innings of two-hit ball, allowing one earned run and one walk with five strikeouts.



Tennis blanks ‘Cats

MUNCIE — A clean sweep of the Muncie Central Bearcats on Thursday lifted the South Adams girls tennis team to 9-2 on the season.

Julia Grabau, the Starfires’ No. 2 singles player, improved to 11-0 with a 6-1, 6-1 win against Katie Hunter. Haley Gerber won her No. 1 singles match over Tara Horst 6-2, 6-1, while Hannah Dull picked up a 6-0, 6-0 victory over Sara Biliter.

Breanna Potts and Jade Farlow teamed up at No. 1 singles to defeat Megan Clifford and Emma Kinney 6-1, 6-1, and the Starfires’ No. 2 tandem of Katrina Fosnaugh and Cassie Yoder beat Kelby Stallings and Maddie Evans 6-0, 6-2.