Anna Roessner leads Tribe to fourth place

WEST MILTON, Ohio — Anna Reossner’s breakout season is continuing strong.

The Fort Recovery High School junior won a pair of events at the Milton Union Bulldog Track Classic on Saturday to lead the Indians to fourth place.

Fort Loramie won both the boys and girls events. The FRHS boys team placed 14th of 16 teams.

Roessner earned the top spot in both the 100-meter and 200-meter dash. Her time of 12.25 seconds in the 100 dash beat out Fort Loramie’s Izzy Meyer by 1.1 seconds. She beat out Sunni Voisard (27.68 seconds) of Fort Loramie 2.32 seconds in the 200 dash.

Mara Pearson owned the only other top finish for Fort Recovery in the long jump. Her top jump of 17 feet, 1.25 inches, beat Russia’s Hazel Francis by over a foot.

Carson Fullenkamp claimed the best finish for the boys, placing fourth in the shot put with a mark of 39 feet, 10 inches.

Tribe splits

LIMA, Ohio — The Fort Recovery softball team split with the Shawnee Indians in a doubleheader Saturday. FRHS took the first game 10-6, but fell in the second 6-5.

Back-to-back four-run innings powered the Fort Recovery (5-8) victory in game No. 1. Britney Tebbe and Ella Schoen had two-RBI singles in the third and fourth innings, respectively.

Tebbe finished with a game-high four RBIs and two hits while also earning the win in 5.2 innings pitched. She surrendered all six runs (only three were earned) on 14 hits and one walk.

A pair of errors allowed Shawnee (2-9) to score three runs in the first inning of game No. 2.

Fort Recovery tied the game in the fourth inning on a triple by Emma Will, but SHS immediately reclaimed the lead on another error, a single and two sacrifice bunts. Two more runs in the sixth sealed the deal, handing Jenna Homan her seventh loss of the season.

Sixth decides

FORT RECOVERY — A disastrous sixth inning put the game out of reach as the Fort Recovery baseball team got beat by the Lincolnview Lancers 17-9 Saturday.

The Indians (4-5) gave up 10 runs in the sixth inning that gave the Lancers (7-3) a commanding 16-4 lead. Six singles, two walks, two errors and a double did the damage for Lincolnview.

Fort Recovery scored four in the bottom half of the inning, but couldn’t complete a comeback.

Reece Wendel was the only Indian with multiple hits, while Alex Dues led with three RBIs.

Alex Gaerke suffered the loss, giving up six runs in the first 3 2/3 innings.