Tribe sends six to BGSU

AYERSVILLE, Ohio —  The Indians will have representation in eight events, and four individuals will compete in multiple events at district.

Teigen Fortkamp, Paige Guggenbiller, Joelle Kaup and Sage Wendel of the Fort Recovery High School swim team finished in the top eight at the OHSAA Division II sectional meet at Ayersville Saturday.

A top-eight finish at the sectional earns a berth to the district meet at Bowling Green State University.

Wendel captured the only sectional title for the Indians. His time of 58.17 seconds earned the top-spot in the 100-yard butterfly. He also placed third in the 100 backstroke.

Fortkamp and Kaup will compete in four events each. Both are on the 200 medley relay team that finished fourth and the 200 freestyle relay that made it through with a sixth-place finish. Both will swim in the 50 freestyle after Fortkamp placed third and Kaup seventh.

Fortkamp fell 11 hundredths of a second short of the sectional championship in the 100 backstroke, but her time of 1:02.09 got her to district.

Kaup earned sixth in the 100 butterfly to move on.

Guggenbiller joins Fortkamp and Kaup in both of the relays while also competing in the 100 breaststroke. She just made it through in eighth-place.

Allison Knapke makes up the final leg of the 200 medley relay, while Autumn Leuthold will join for the 200 freestyle relay.

Bounced back

FORT RECOVERY — The Fort Recovery boys basketball team dominated the fourth quarter to beat the Newton Local Indians 63-56 on Saturday.

It also received the nine seed in the Division IV Northwest 4 district tournament, with an opening round game in the sectional at fifth-seeded Upper Scioto Valley Feb. 28 at 7 p.m.

Fort Recovery (6-13) outscored NLHS 21-10 in the final frame. Briggs Overman led FRHS with nine points on 7-of-8 free throws in the quarter, as he put up 20 total in the game. Gavin Evers added five of his 11 in the period as well.

Quinn Peters and Max Newhouse drove Newton Local’s offense with 21 and 20 points, but they didn’t receive enough support from the rest of the team.

A win in the sectional opener pits FRHS against the winner No. 4 seed Mt. Victory Ridgemont and No. 6 seed New Bremen.

The district opener holds a likely matchup with top-seeded No. 3 Lima Central Catholic. 

Runkle powers

INDIANAPOLIS — A first-place all-around finish for Carlie Runkle led the JC Flipsters bronze level to second place at the Sweetheart Classic Saturday.

Runkle took first place in the vault (9.7 points) and on the beam (9.6 points) to help her to 38.1 overall points. She also claimed second on the floor and third on the bars.

Aubrey Foreman captured the only other victory. She finished on the top of the floor competition with 9.45 points.

The gold level team captured third place at the event. Bella Sarver earned the top performance with 37.15 all around points to take third. She had a pair of runner-up finishes on the bars and the beam.