Seniors lead Tribe

COLDWATER, Ohio — Fort Recovery has become accustomed to players finishing in the single digits over the past couple of years. That held true on Saturday as both the boys and girls had a top-7 finisher.

On Saturday, the Fort Recovery High School and Middle School cross country teams competed in the Lions Club meet at Coldwater High School.

The high school girls placed sixth out of 20 teams with 180 points while the boys earned 379 points for 16th of 22 teams. In the girls race, Division III No. 2 Fort Loramie took first place with 78 points while Division III No. 3 Columbus Grove won the boys with 101.

Pacing the Indians was Trevor Heitkamp, who finished third with a time of 16 minutes, 04.54 seconds. Luke Ellerbrock (15:52.56) of Columbus Grove and Owen Scott (15:59.7) of Van Wert were the only athletes to beat Heitkamp.

Also scoring for the boys were Parker Brunswick (55), Reese Diller (93), Evan Evers (133) and Milo Fiely (207).

Natalie Brunswick paced the FRHS girls to cross the finish line seventh with a time of 19:30.38. Liberty Center’s MaKayla Meller won the race with 18:36.76.

Other scoring runners for the girls were Ellie Will (23rd), Joelle Kaup (38th), Jenna Hart (59th) and Anna Roessner (61st).

The Tribe’s middle school boys team had 281 points to finish 11th out of 16 teams while the girls’ 222 points was good for eighth of 13.

Riley Heitkamp and Alex Roessner were the top runners for each team. Heitkamp placed 22nd with 13:29.20 and Roessner placed 36th with 12:25.97.

Also scoring with Heitkamp were Courtney Klenke (45), Kendall Ranly (58), Claire Grube (78) and Yoselin Juarez-Gomes (90).

Joining Roessner was Evan Diller (70th), Gavin Heitkamp (74th), Charlie Stammen (79th) and Chase Fiely (86th).