Tribe offense explodes late

ANSONIA, Ohio — The Indians struggled against Keegan Weiss, but once they got to the bullpen, they couldn’t stop scoring.

After trailing 3-0, the Fort Recovery High School baseball team fired off 18 runs in the final two innings to take down the Ansonia Tigers 18-3 on Saturday.

Lander Shives replaced Weiss on the mound in the fifth inning with a three-run lead for Ansonia (3-4). He walked the first two batters before Caden Grisez’s single knocked in the first run for the Indians (2-1).

The next four runs scored on an error, a groundout and a wild pitch. Later, Troy Homan, Grisez and Alex Gaerke all walked to push runs across the plate.

FRHS would pour on 10 more runs in the sixth inning to end the game by mercy rule.

Gaerke ended the game with four RBIs and two runs and Sage Wendel had three RBIs, three runs and one hit to lead the Indians.

Homan earned the win with three innings pitched with one strikeout, zero hits and zero runs.

Too many hits

ROCKFORD, Ohio — The Fort Recovery softball team and the Parkway Panthers combined for 23 hits Saturday as the Indians fell 11-5 in their first Midwest Athletic Conference matchup of the year.

The Panthers (5-0, 1-0 MAC) managed 13 hits and 11 runs – seven of which were earned – off of Jenna Homan in six innings. They scored three runs in the second, fourth and sixth innings.

Madison Louth led the way with three hits and three RBIs.

Homan and Ella Schoen were the Indians’ top offensive performers. Homan had three hits and two runs while Schoen had two hits and two RBIs.

The Indians (1-3, 0-1 MAC) scored two runs in third and fourth innings to momentarily tie the Panthers, who responded with three runs and never trailed again.

The only other FRHS run came in the sixth on a passed ball.

Track falls behind

CELINA, Ohio — Fort Recovery’s track teams fell to seventh at the Celina relays on Friday.

The girls team only managed to score 16 points, while Celina put up 97 to win the meet. The boys team ended with 27 points, just one shy of Waynesfield-Goshen in sixth. Celina also won the boys side with 109 points.

Kiana Matsuda, Ellie Will, Natalie Brunswick and Anna Roessner captured the only first-place finish as the four ran the 4x400-meter relay in 4 minutes, 20.74 seconds.

The highest finish for the boys came from the distance medley relay team that placed second. Reece Diller, Cayson Kaikala, Parker Brunswick and Trevor Heitkamp combined for a time of 12 minutes, 31.15 seconds.