Montes scores first for Ravens

Anhely Montes came out firing for the Anderson University girls soccer team and it didn’t take long to pay off.

The 2020 graduate from Jay County High School scored the first goal of the season for the Ravens after nearly 27 minutes of play on Saturday.

Montes only took one more shot at the goal in the 4-1 win over the Spalding Eagles. Her first shot came at the 6:23 mark.

The forward was held scoreless in a 0-0 draw against St. Mary-Woods on Wednesday. In 64 minutes played, Montes took five shots against the Pomeroys two of which were saved and three were wide of the goal.

Jayla Bruns

FRHS – 2022

Shot the best score for the IU-East girls golf B team at the IU-East Fall Invitational over the weekend at Highland Lake Golf Course.

In the first round, Bruns shot an 85 to tie Trine’s Cally Ruff for the 17th-best score out of 42 golfers.

She matched her score in the second round of the invitational to finish with 170 strokes, good for 18th-place. She tied with fellow Red Wolf Josalyn Lewis, who had the fifth score for the A team.

Other golfers on the B team placed 22nd, 36th, 39th and 42nd for a team score of 720. They beat Concordia Ann Arbor (742) while IU-East’s A team won the invitational with 637 strokes.

Lindy Wood

Jay County – 2022

Ran a time of 22:13.5 to finish 28th at the Mastodon Opener at the University of Purdue – Fort Wayne to open the season.

Wood finished behind Trine’s Piper Barker who crossed the finish line at 21:53.2. Madison King of Purdue – Fort Wayne won the meet with a time of 17:16.7.

Wood finished seventh among the University of Saint Francis (Ind.), taking up 23rd place. Alex Ebetino paced the Cougars runners, finishing fourth with a time of 18:20.6. Other Cougars finished 10th, 18th, 19th and 21st for the team to rack up 71 points and finish third out of four teams.

St. Francis beat Lourdes (110) while falling to Purdue – Fort Wayne (21) and Trine (50).

Paige Fortkamp

FRHS – 2021

Cooled off as the University of Saint Francis (Ind.) volleyball team was swept 3-0 in all five matches this week.

After racking up 28 kills in a single match against William Woods on Aug. 25, Fortkamp only managed 28 kills total over the past five contests.

With 21 errors and 109 hitting attempts, Fortkamp only had a 6.4% hitting percentage.

Fortkamp now sits third in the Crossroads League in kills with 130. Taking over first and second place were Haley Kruse of Huntington (144) and Taylor’s Gracie Conway (132).