FR ACME dominates Parkway in tourney

ST. HENRY, Ohio — The Fort Recovery High School baseball team made a run in the postseason.

Now that it’s the summer, a new set of Indians are looking to go on their own.

The third-seeded Fort Recovery ACME baseball team dominated the sixth-seeded Parkway Panthers for a 16-1 victory in the opening round of the sectional tournament on Thursday, hosted at St. Henry High School.

The Indians (6-4) jumped out early to score six runs in the first and second innings. They piled on four more in the fourth to reach the final score.

The Panthers got their only run off of Gavin Evers in the second when the leadoff hitter smacked a double and scored on an error. Evers went the distance in the short game, striking out six batters and surrendering five hits.

Luke Fortkamp and Hayden Siefring stood out with their bats by collecting two hits apiece and driving in two runs each. Both mashed doubles in the game, along with Alex Gaerke, Caden Grisez and Dylan Klenke. Gearke and Klenke both drove in a pair of runs as well.

The Indians will face the No. 2 seed Marion Local in the quarterfinal.

JC wins handily

The Jay County summer swim team trounced the Catalina swim team for a 722-440 victory at Portland Water Park on Thursday.

Jay County dominated the middle age groups with two triple-event winners in the 11-12-year-old and 13-14-year-old divisions.

Sophie Warvel earned wins for the 11-12-year-old girls by claiming the butterfly, breaststroke and short freestyle. Sam Benirschke handled the boys side with first-place finishes in the long freestyle, backstroke and breaststroke.

Both sides had representation in the 13-14-year-old age group as well in Brooklyn Byrum and Cooper Glentzer. Byrum won the backstroke breaststroke and short freestyle, while Glentzer pulled off wins in the butterfly, backstroke and individual medley.

Jay County had a pair of younger triple-event winners as well. Maddie Theurer claimed wins in the girls 8-and-younger IM, breaststroke and short free. Addisyn Champ picked up victories for the 9-10-year-old girls in the long freestyle, backstroke and breaststroke.

Eels fall short

GREENVILLE, Ohio — The Fort Recovery swim team dropped its meet against the Darke County Stingrays 686-541 on Thursday.

The girls garnered 407 points, backed by Maddy Timmerman, Liza Knapke, Livy Timmerman and Joelle Kaup, but the boys could only manage 134.

Maddy Timmerman’s wins came in the 11-12-year-old girls 25-meter freestyle, 25 breaststroke and 50 freestyle.

The 13-14-year-old division was handled by Livy Timmerman’s wins in the 50 freestyle, 50 backstroke and 100 freestyle and Knapke’s in the 50 butterfly and 100 individual medley. Knapke also won the open 200 freestyle.

Kaup provided wins in the 15-and-over 50 butterfly, 50 backstroke and 100 freestyle.

Ivan Boeckman led the boys in points. He won the 8-and-younger 25 butterfly, 25 backstroke and 50 freestyle.

Hemmelgarn wins it

Harvey Hemmelgarn delivered the walk-off triple to push the No. 2 seed POET Bioprocessing past third-seeded Pioneer Packaging 13-12 in the Portland Junior League Rookie baseball semifinal on Thursday.

POET Bioprocessing entered the bottom of the sixth inning trailing Pioneer Packaging before Hemmelgarn’s triple pushed a pair of runs across the plate. Hemmelgarn finished the game with three triple and a single, while scoring three runs to lead POET Bioprocessing.

Corbin Hutzler provided a significant lift as well with a home run, a double and a single while scoring twice.

Pioneer Packaging’s offense was more evenly distributed with Nathan Fullenkamp, Jett Johnson and Kase VanSkyock all hitting a triple and scoring two runs. Lake Willmann also had a strong day with two doubles and two runs scored.

POET Bioprocessing earned a spot in the championship game against top-seeded Cook’s Nursery.