Tribe blows out Blackhawks

UNION CITY, Ohio — The Indians have struggled to get the offense going as of late.

They finally broke through on that end of the floor, and it helped break an ugly streak.

Twelve Fort Recovery High School boys basketball players scored as the Indians picked up their first win in nearly a month on Saturday with a 74-41 win over the Mississinawa Valley Blackhawks.

The win snaps a 9-game losing streak for Fort Recovery (5-11) that began Dec. 28.

All but one player scored for FRHS, including Gavin Evers with 12 and Troy Homan with 10. Evers recorded 10 of his 12 in the second quarter, in which the Indians outscored the Blackhawks 26-10.

Cing Scott put up the most points for Mississinawa Valley (1-15) with 11 on three triples.

Defense prevails

FORT RECOVERY — Fort Recovery’s girls basketball team came out on top of a defensive battle with the Franklin Monroe Jets for a 32-15 victory.

The Indians’ defense was too much for the Jets (6-10) to handle, never scoring more than six in a period. Presley Cox finished with nine of the FMHS’ 15 points, the other six coming from Kyra Barns, Olivia Sease and Ava Figel.

Cali Wendel shot well from distance, draining a three in each quarter to tally 13 points.

Karlie Niekamp added 10 points, seven of which came in the first half.

Makenna Huelskamp and Saige Leuthold rounded out the scoring with seven and two respectively.

Fort Recovery (6-11) scored nine points in the first and fourth, while adding eight and six in the second and third periods respectively.

Fortkamp leads

CELINIA, Ohio — The Fort Recovery girls and boys swim teams placed second and fifth respectively in the Saint Henry mini meet at the Celina YMCA on Saturday.

The girls scored 55 points to finish as runners-up while Versailles took home the victory with 171 points. Troy Christian’s score of 79 topped the boys, while the trio of Indians earned 31 points.

Teigen Fortkamp earned the only victory for Fort Recovery. It came in the 100-yard freestyle, in which her time of 57.57 seconds blew out second-place finisher Erin Fredrick of Versailles by nearly four seconds.

Fortkamp also finished second in the 200 freestyle and participated in the 200 and 400 freestyle relay teams that were runners-up.

Joelle Kaup had the only other second-place finish for the girls in the 50 freestyle.

Sage Wendel posted the strongest day for the boys team with a second-place finish in the 100 butterfly and took third in the 100 backstroke.

Carson Fullenkamp also claimed the second-best time in the 200 individual medley.