Three Indians earn MAC titles

Teigen Fortkamp and Sage Wendel have been the leaders of their teams all season long.

After Saturday, they can also say they are the leaders of the conference as well.

Fortkamp and Wendel both earned a pair of titles at the Midwest Athletic Conference Invite on Saturday for the Fort Recovery High School swim teams hosted by Coldwater at Jay County High School.

The girls team placed fourth at the meet while the boys placed fifth.

Fortkamp and Wendel were the only swimmers to place first, but Thresea Hipple also earned a MAC title as the lone diver to compete in the meet.

Fortkamp captured the victories for the girls team in the 100-yard freestyle (55.11 seconds) and the 100 backstroke (1 minute, 2.59 seconds) .

Wendel’s top-place finishes came in the 100 backstroke (1:00.53) and the 200 freestyle (1:57.53). The FRHS senior broke his school record for the third meet in a row in the 200 freestyle.

Overtime defeat

LEWISTOWN, Ohio — The Indians held a 4-point lead going into the fourth quarter.

Despite not holding the lead, they held on enough to force the Lakers into overtime.

The Indians just couldn’t finish off the Lakers, who caught fire in the second half and overtime.

The Indian Lake Lakers scored 15 points in the overtime period to supplement a 27-point second half to beat the Fort Recovery High School girls basketball team on Monday 54-45.

Carly Strayer hit two shots and two free throws in overtime to score six of her 10 points. Savannah Hill had the only other basket for the Lakers (7-10) in the extra period, as 9-of-15 points came from free throws.

Makenna Huelskamp hit a triple, Karlie Niekamp drained a pair of free throws and Cameron Muhlenkamp split a pair to make up Fort Recovery’s six overtime points.

Niekamp powered the Indians (5-10) with 19 points. She scored all six of the Indians’ points in the third with two 3-point plays.

Huelskamp added 13 points to the total as well including a pair of threes.

Four players scored in double digits for Indian Lake. Kenzie Dixon put in a team-high 13, while Stayer, Hill and Kaite Roby all added 10.

The Indians started hot, outscoring Indian Lake by six points in the first quarter and four in the second.

The Lakers doubled up Fort Recovery 12-6 in the third period, and outscored the Indians by four in the final period to force overtime.

Runkle is grand champ

INDIANAPOLIS — Carlie Runkle had a big weekend for the JC Flipsters, earning the overall grand champion at the Meet Me Under the Sea at Rev Sports Academy in Indianapolis.

Runkle earned first-place finishes in both the vault with a score of 9.4 and on the bars with a 9.65. Those finishes helped her to an all-around score of 37.8 to and earned the top spot in the Bronze level.

A score of 9.35 points on the floor earned the runner-up spot and a third-place finish on the beam (9.4) supported her score enough to make her the overall-grand champion, which is the highest all-around score out of every competitor in all age groups.

Scores of 9.5 and 9.4 pushed Kendall Evans to a pair of victories on the beam and the floor as she earned sixth all-around with 37.2 points.

Bella Sarver’s 9.3 on the floor and 9.15 on the beam was good enough for third in both events. She ended third in the Gold level with an all-around score of 36.4.

Charli Stephens placed second on the Silver level bars (9.65) en route to a fourth-place finish of 37.