Tribe girls fall in fourth quarter to Flyers

MARIA STEIN, Ohio — The Indians only trailed by one point entering the final period.

Despite only allowing one field goal in the fourth quarter, the Flyers found a way to win at the free throw line.

The Fort Recovery High School girls basketball team fell to the Marion Local Flyers 47-37 in the Ohio 119 Classic on Saturday.

The Tribe (4-7) trailed Marion Local (9-0) 32-31 entering the final period. Mya Eckstein scored the only bucket for the Flyers in the final period, but she added six free throws to go with it. Chloe Ronnebaum and Faith Ronnebaum added seven makes at the charity stripe as well.

FRHS only scored six points in the fourth quarter, with Bridget Homan and Makenna Huelskamp scoring three apiece.

Homan led the Indians with 13 points after dropping 10 in the first quarter. Kennedy Muhlenkamp followed with 12 points, while Karlie Niekamp and Huelskamp added seven and five, respectively.

Tribe falls

MARIA STEIN, Ohio — The Fort Recovery boys basketball team’s defense couldn’t slow down the Marion Local Flyers in Saturday’s 64-43 loss on Saturday in the Ohio 119 Classic.

The Indians (3-4) surrendered 12 or more points in each quarter, while only managing to reach double digits themselves in the first and second periods.

Sophomore guard Grant Fortkamp led the way for FRHS with 15 points, followed by Gavin Evers and Breaker Jutte with seven each.

Colson Post put up five points in the first half, followed by Brody Barga with four, Briggs Overman with three and Braylon Dilworth with two.

Austin Niekamp led Marion Local (5-0) with 22 points, 10 of which came in the second quarter. Grant Kremer also added 13 points.

LeFevre leads

MINSTER, Ohio — Fort Recovery’s boys bowling team lost its first Midwest Athletic Conference match to St. Henry 2,950-2,644 on Saturday at Community Lanes.

St. Henry (5-0, 3-0 MAC) had a pair of players average over 200 pins, while only Reece LeFevre met the mark for the Indians (3-6, 2-1 MAC). LeFevre knocked over a match-high 269 pins in the first game before only getting 148 in the second for a 208.5 average pinfall.

The next-best FRHS average came from Gave Acheson with 172.5 after rolling a 192 and a 153.

The Indians also got outplayed in the baker games 1,013-909. Fort Recovery’s best game came right at the beginning with a score of 217.

Kaup places in two

LIMA, Ohio — The Fort Recovery High School swim teams each had a swimmer place in the top 10 of an event while competing in the Bluffton Holiday Invite at Lima Family YMCA on Friday.

The girls team totaled 43 points to finish 16th in the 20-team field, while Ottawa Glandorf took the top spot with 287. The boys team secured 18th place out of 24 teams by tallying 21 points. Shawnee won the boys' side with 322 points.

Joelle Kaup picked up a pair of top-10 finishes and the best placement of all the Indians on the day. Her time of 26.12 seconds in the 50-yard freestyle earned fifth place. She also added a sixth-place finish in the 100 butterfly, hitting the wall in 1 minute, 7.17 seconds.

Caleb Smith had the best finish for the boys, placing eighth in the 100 breaststroke, swimming a 1:12.28.