Sage Wendel breaks own school record

CELINA — The Indians don’t have enough boys to be competitive as a team this season, but the ones they do have, have been strong.

One of them just broke his own school record.

Sage Wendel of the Fort Recovery High School swim team broke his school record in the 200-yard freestyle in the Celina Lions Invite at the Celina YMCA on Saturday.

The Fort Recovery girls team scored 115 points to tie for fourth place with Bluffton, while Ottawa Glandorf ran away with the victory at 274 points. The boys scored 32 points to finish 11th out of 16 teams.

The FRHS senior finished the 200 freestyle in fifth place, but his time of 1 minute, 59.56 seconds set a new school record. He also finished fourth in the 100 freestyle.

The girls team’s top point getter was Teigen Fortkamp. A time of 2:10.84 earned her the top spot in the 200 freestyle. Fortkamp placed fifth in the 100 butterfly.

She also swam in the 200 freestyle relay that earned a third-place finish and the 200 medley relay that placed fifth. Autumn Leuthold, Allison Knapke and Paige Guggenbiller joined Fortkamp in the freestyle relay and Joelle Kaup replaced Knapke in the medley relay.

Guggenbiller also had a high individual finish as she placed fifth in the 100 breaststroke.

Still undefeated

VERSAILLES — The Fort Recovery girls bowling team dominated the Minster Wildcats 2,374-1,997 at McBo’s Lanes on Saturday to remain perfect on the season.

The top three Indians outpaced the Wildcats’ leading bowler. Julia Mullins averaged 172 pins per game for Minster (4-5, 2-3 Midwest Athletic Conference). Brooklyn Wyerick, Ella Schoen and Emily Lauber all surpassed that mark with average pinfalls of 194, 183 and 179.5 respectively.

Schoen rolled the highest game of the match, knocking down 211 pins in the first regular game. Mullins shot Minster’s high-game of 189 pins.

Both teams struggled in the baker games, with the Indians (5-0, 5-0 MAC) coming out on top by 74 pins. The third game was Fort Recovery’s highest at 169.

Indians outperformed

VERSAILLES — Fort Recovery’s boys bowling team didn’t have enough firepower to take down the Minster Wildcats at McBo’s Lanes on Saturday, falling 2,839-2,553.

Minster (6-3, 3-3 MAC) had two bowlers – Xavier Kitzmiller and Rylan Edwards – average over 200 pins per game. The former averaged 226 pins while the latter threw a 218 per game. Kitzmiller also rolled a match-high 245 pins.

In a single game, Gabe Acheson knocked down 194 pins to secure the Indians’ best average.

Austin Steinbrunner took out the most total pins for Fort Recovery (5-3, 3-3 MAC) with 381 pins between the two games.

Lucas Acheson threw the best individual game for the Indians, throwing a 204 in the second regular game.

An opening game of 204 pins held Minster beat Fort Recovery in baker play 864-828.

Junior varsity tops

STRAUGHN — The Jay County High School junior varsity wrestling team won four matches to take the top spot at the Tri High Invitational on Saturday.

The Patriots won all four matches as they beat Tri 54-30, Wapahani 54-6, Northeastern 36-33 and Rushville 54-28.

Four Jay County wrestlers went undefeated on the day. Sylas Wenk won three matches in the 113-pound weight class while Jason Landers matched that mark in the 132 matches.

Landers pinned all three opponents with the quickest coming against Rushville’s Giovanni Norvell who was pinned in 1 minute, 33 seconds.

Wenk pinned two of his opponents and beat Wapahani’s Kroben Smith in a 9-6 decision.

Gabe Ardizzone (138) and Hayden Ison (144) were both victorious in their only match of the day. Ardizzone pinned Northeastern’s Johnny Bird in 3:13 while Ison only needed 46 seconds to get the fall on Rushville’s Parker Smiley.