Tribe softball gets conference win

VERSAILLES, Ohio — A key error and some timely hitting helped the Indians pick up their first Midwest Athletic Conference win of the season.

The fifth inning ended up being the difference maker for Fort Recovery High School’s softball team, as it snuck away with a 3-2 win over the Versailles Tigers on Tuesday.

With the game tied at 1-1, Ava Grisez led off the fifth inning with a single past first base for the Indians (2-3, 1-1 MAC) before reaching second on a passed ball. Grisez crossed home to break the tie on a flyball by Ella Schoen that was dropped by Kailey Jenkinson in right field.

Two batters later, Jenna Homan hit a single to right to score Schoen and give FRHS a two-run lead.

Homan gave up a home run to Jenna Dirksen in the bottom of the inning, but locked the Tigers (6-1, 0-1 MAC) down the rest of the game. She went the distance to pick up the win while only allowing five hits and two runs.

Both teams’ first run came in the third inning on a Grisez groundout and a single by Lydia Hecht.

Track bounces back

DELPHOS, Ohio — Both Fort Recovery track teams finished as the runner-up in a quad-meet hosted by St. John’s on Tuesday.

The girls team tallied 67.5 points for second place, falling to Versailles who had 112.5. Versailles also dominated the boys competition with 149 points, while the Indians racked up 57 for second.

The girls had two athletes to win a pair of events. Anna Roessner handled the sprints by claiming the top spot in the 100 and 200-meter dashes. While doing so, she broke her own school record in the 100 dash by 0.03 seconds with a new time of 12.13 seconds.

Natalie Brunswick took care of the distance events, cruising to victory in the 1,600 run (5 minutes, 31.46 seconds) and the 3,200 run (11:58.72).

Tevor Heitkamp won the same events as Brunswick for the boys with times of 4:31.95 and 9:49.41.

The girls also won both hurdles events with Maddie Heitkamp topping the 100 hurdles (18.77) and Kiana Matsuda dominating the 300 hurdles (49.72)

Other victories for the Indians came from Austin Steinbrunner in the 100 dash, Isaac Roessner in the long jump, the girls 4x100 relay and the girls 4x400 relay.