Two Indians are all-MAC first team

A pair of Indian boys made first team all-conference as the Midwest Athletic Conference named its 2020 boys basketball All-MAC squads.

Fort Recovery High School junior forwards Brian Bihn and Clay Schmitz were both named to the first team for the Tribe, which finished the season 16-6 overall and 5-4 in league play, which was fourth in the conference.

Bihn finished third in the league in both field goal percentage (55.3%) and free throw percentage (77.6%).

Schmitz’s 70.5% clip from the free-throw line ranked sixth in the conference, and he was ninth in the MAC with 112 rebounds.

Fort Recovery senior Grant Knapke and junior Derek Jutte were named second-team All-MAC. Jutte’s 81 assists were third.

Knapke finished 10th in 3-point field goal percentage at 35.1%.

Regan Martin was named All-MAC honorable mention.

Michael Stammen and Travis Swank of conference champion Versailles were named player of the year and coach of the year, respectively.



Norwell tops Jay

OSSIAN — Jay County’s middle school swim teams both fell to the host Norwell Knights on Monday.

The girls fell 181-111, while the boys lost 153-116.

Nick Lyons had two of the boys’ three individual victories, taking first in the 100-yard freestyle and the 100-yard backstroke events.

Creed Beiswanger nabbed a win in the 50-yard freestyle.

Maddy Snow (diving) and Aubrey Millspaugh (200 freestyle) were first for the girls.

Joseph Dow, Timo Minnich, Matthew Fisher, Cohen Henry and Beiswanger all had runner-up finishes for the boys.

Taking second for the girls were Lauren Fisher, Morgan DeHoff and Millspaugh.