Tribe escapes with win

FORT RECOVERY — The Railroaders put up 13 points in the fourth quarter. The Indians scored 12.

Fortunately for the Tribe, that’s all they would need to escape with a win.

The Fort Recovery boys basketball team narrowly beat the Bradford Railroaders 50-49 on Saturday.

Three Indians scored in double figures. Newcomer Gavin Faller was the leading scorer with 13 points, including two free throws in the final period. Faller made it to the line eight times in the game, knocking down 7 of 16 attempts.

Troy Homan and Rex Leverette put up 10 points each. All of Leverette’s points came in the second half,  for Fort Recovery (2-0).

Bradford’s leader was Hudson Hill, who dropped 20 points by spraying in five threes. Owen Canan added 14.

The Indians dominated the first and third quarters with 16 points apiece, while Bradford (2-2) owned the second quarter with 15.

Rowles tops

LEBANON — The Jay County girls wrestling team finished 12th out of 50 teams at the Lebanon Invitational on Saturday.

Katie Rowles was the Patriots’ sole champion, taking the 100-pound weight class. After a first-round bye, she beat North Central’s Victoria Duenas Zelaya in a 4-2 decision. She pinned Kokomo’s Amaris Garling in 56 seconds. In the championship, she beat Tri-County’s Sydney Stoller 4-0.

Lina Lingo earned third place for Jay County in the 135 bracket, taking down Kelsee Powers out of Hamilton Heights in 58 seconds.

Other placements came from Willow Hardy (fourth), Maleah Parsons (fifth), Sophie Thomas (seventh), Madison Gage (seventh) and Tessa Miller (ninth). Calie Yates and Emily Manor both competed as well, but did not place.

Finishing third

TROTWOOD, Ohio — The Fort Recovery swim teams competed at the Trotwood Invitational on Saturday.

The girls team scored 165.5 points to finish third out of 24 teams. Beating it for the top two spots were Tippecnoe with 198 points and  Versailles with 169.

The boys earned 63.5 points to place ninth out of 27 teams. Little Miami topped the field with 165. 

Teigen Fortkamp and Sage Wendel both won an event. Fortkamp’s time of 56.99 seconds was good enough for first in the 100-yard freestyle, while she was 0.17 seconds away from first place in the 100 individual medley.

Wendel claimed the 100 free as well with a time of 54.18 seconds. He placed third in the 50 butterfly as well to be the top point-getter for the boys.

The girls 200 free relay of Makenna Huelskamp, Joelle Kaup, Paige Guggenbiller and Fortkamp finished 1.25 seconds behind first place.

The 200 medley relay team of Fortkamp, Guggenbiller, Kaup and Allison Knapke finished fourth.

Kaup added a pair of third places in the sprint freestyle and backstroke while Guggenbiller was fifth in the sprint breaststroke.

Bowlers start strong

COLDWATER, Ohio — The Fort Recovery bowling teams both took down the Parkway Panthers at Pla-Mor Lanes in Coldwater on Saturday. The boys throttled the Panthers 2,701-2,145 while the girls won 2,068-1,785 to open up Midwest Athletic Conference play.

The boys team (2-0, 1-0 MAC) had four bowlers average more than 200 pins for the individual games. Lucas Acheson led the way with a 219.5 average while Austin Steinbrunner had a 207.5. Bowling one game each, Gabe Acheson rolled a 219 while Riley Grieshop shot a 211.

The Indians also outshot the Panthers (0-1, 0-1 MAC) in baker 866-734.

Ella Schoen led the girls (1-0, 1-0 MAC) for the Tribe’s season opener with a 188.5 average.

The Indians trailed the Panthers in baker play 660-644 but the strong individual games from Schoen (190, 187), Deanna Brown (159, 146), Kayla Heitkamp (129, 145) and Emily Lauber (124, 144) made up for it.

Tankers dominate

The Jay County Winter Swim team dominated the Jay Winter Invite on Saturday, winning 40 of 48 events.

Three Jay tankers led their respective age groups, with Cooper Glentzer dominating the 13-14-year-old boys, Elly Byrum handling the 11-12-year-old girls and Addisyn Champ winning the 9-10-year-old girls.

Glentzer and Byrum both won five events at the meet. Both conquered the 50-yard freestyle, butterfly, 200 freestyle and the backstroke. Glentzer’s other victory came in the 100 freestyle while Byrum’s was in the breaststroke.

Champ was nearly as successful, claiming the 50 freestyle, 50 backstroke, 100 freestyle and 200 individual medley.

Runkle leads

INDIANAPOLIS — The JC Flipsters of JC Tumbling and Gymnastics competed in the Hoosier Cup at the Indiana State FairGrounds over the weekend.

Charlie Runkle earned the highest finish of all Flipsters. A pair of second-place finishes on vault (9.0 points) and on the floor (9.5) combined with a third-place finish on the bars (9.2) fueled her to 36.4 points in total and third place in the all-around competition at the bronze level.

Jordyn Champ, of the gold division, boasts the only top finish at the event. She took the top spot on the vault with a score of 9.175. She also finished fourth on the balance beam to help her to sixth place all-around (34.925).

The Flipsters’ top performer from the silver level was Charli Stephens, who placed sixth all-around with 36.5 points.