Eighth-seeded Indians draw Wayne Trace

The brackets have been released.

Four games from now, the Indians will face the Raiders to open the postseason.

Brackets for the OHSAA Division III girls basketball tournament came out on Sunday, slating the eighth-seeded Fort Recovery High School girls basketball team for an opening-round matchup No. 5 seed Wayne Trace Raiders in the opening round of the Northwest 3 Sectional Feb. 22.

The Indians (6-12) have four regular season games left before they will take on the Wayne Trace (11-7).

The winner is set to face fourth-seeded Parkway in the sectional championship Feb. 24. The Indians previously defeated Parkway 38-30 on Dec. 14.

The first round of the district tournament will hold a potential Division III No. 2, top-seeded Ottowa Glandorf or the 11 seed Elmwood Feb. 29.

On the other side of the bracket, 6 seed Paulding faces 10 seed Bluffton while the seventh-seeded Coldwater hosts ninth-seeded Van Buren.

The winner of the latter game will face third-seeded Jefferson and the former will face No. 2 seed Allen East.

The district championship is to be played on March 2.

Acheson leads

FORT RECOVERY — Lucas Acheson threw his best game of the season as the Fort Recovery boys bowling team fell to the Coldwater Cavaliers 3,236-3,048 at Miracle Lanes on Saturday.

Acheson opened the day with a season-high 278 pin game. He followed it up with 212 pins in the second for an average of 245 pins.

Austin Steinbrunner’s average pinfall also broke 200 as he rolled games of 237 and 198.

Nate Jutte and Evan Keller put together strong days as well with 198 and 188.5 averages.

Riley Grieshop (233 pins) and Owen Knapke (177 pins) both threw only one game each.

The Indians finish matchplay with an overall record of 7-4 and a conference 4-3 record in conference to finish fourth in the Midwest Athletic Conference.

Fort Recovery will finish the regular season by hosting the MAC tournament on Friday before the sectional tournament.

Three state cuts

The Jay County Winter Swim Club finished up its season with a first-place finish for the girls and second for the boys at the Super Sunday Invite at Jay County High School.

The girls scored 741 points to blow away the Cardinal Community Swim Club, who had 198. The boys tallied 190 points, but Oak Hill’s 419 points secured the win.

Carsyn Guggenbiller made state cuts in both the 50-yard and 100-yard backstroke. Times of 37 seconds (1.39 seconds faster than the state standard) and 1 minute, 22.39 seconds (0.7 seconds faster than the state standard) respectively earned first place in each event and earned a trip to the state meet at IUPUI on March 15-17. Guggenbiller ended as the high point winner in the 9-and-10-year-old division.

She was also on the medley relay that made the state cut. Sophie Warvel, Isabelle Byrum and Addisyn Champ joined Guggenbiller to swim a 2:31.48, 2.21 seconds faster than the state standard.

Runkle leads

NOBLESVILLE — Carlie Runkle earned the highest finish for the JC flipsters at the Money Madness invitational Saturday.

Runkle had second-place finishes on the bars (9.6 points) and on the floor (9.55 points) to push her to the second highest all around score of 37.2 points in the bronze xcel division. She also finished fifth in the vault with 9.05 points and a score of 9.0 was good for sixth on the balance beam.

The bronze division also produced the only first-place finish as Brinley Steury captured the top spot in the floor competition, also with 9.55 points.

The next best overall finish came from Jordyn Champ in the gold xcel division. Champ finished second in the vault (9.0) and third on the floor (9.4) to score a bulk of her 36.3 all around score that placed third.

Eden Lee led the silver division for the Flipsters. Lee’s best finish came on the floor with 9.65 points as she tallied enough points for sixth all around (36.55).