Huelskamp makes return to Indians

COLDWATER, Ohio — The Indians had to start the season without their leading returner, after she suffered an injury during the basketball season.

With two regular season meets left, she made her return to the course, and added a needed lift to the Tribe girls.

Makenna Huelskamp made her first appearance for the Fort Recovery High School cross country team on Saturday at the Lions Club Invitational hosted by Coldwater and helped the girls team to a seventh place finish.

The FRHS girls team tallied 226 points to take seventh out of 24 teams. Lincolnview claimed the top spot with 107 points. West Liberty-Salem won the boys race with 46 points, while the Indians fell to 23rd with 629.

Joelle Kaup paced the girls with a 20 minutes, 38.31 seconds time to claim 19th

In her first race back, Huelskamp (21:36.72) had a back-to-back finish with Riley Heitkamp (21:36.93), to place 38th and 39th, respectively.

Other scores came from Anna Roessner (22:12.85) in 62nd and Maddie Heitkamp (22:47.85) in 84th.

Reese Diller and Evan Evers both broke 20 minutes to lead the Tribe boys. Diller’s 18:47.82 earned him 120th, while Evers took 157th with a 19:32.75.

Rounding out the score were Evan Diller (20:29.37) in 195th, Milo Filey (20:35.76) in 200th and Russell Hart (20:48.58) in 209th.

Spikers swept

FORT LORAMIE, Ohio — Fort Reco, very’s volleyball team couldn’t keep up with Division VII No. 1 Fort Loramie, which cruised to a 25-8, 25-9, 25-11 beating of the Indians on Saturday.

Despite the loss, the Indians (8-12) were awarded the No. 3 seed in the OHSAA Division VI Southwest District tournament on Sunday.

Fort Recovery will open up with a match against the Yellow Springs Bulldogs (8-11) on Oct. 16 at 5:30 p.m. at Arcanum. A win in the opener sets up a match against seventh-seeded Twin Valley South (10-10) on Oct. 19 at 10 a.m.

The winner moves on to play in Oct. 23’s district quarterfinal against the winner of No. 1 seed Arcanum and No. 12 Tri-County North.

The district final will be played on Oct. 26, with potential the potential opponent coming from the South 1 bracket that has top-seeded Miami Valley Christian Academey (14-3), No. 2 East Clinton (15-5), No. 3 Fayetteville Perry (14-5), No. 4 Riverview East Academy (7-8), No. 5 Cincinnati College Prep (5-7) and No. 6 St. Bernard Elmwood (3-10). 

Sectional scheduled

The IHSAA released the volleyball sectional brackets Sunday and the Jay County Patriots drew the Connersville Spartans in the Class 3A Sectional 24 semifinal at New Castle.

The Patriots (10-10) will play Connersville (14-12) in their first appearance in Sectional 24. The match will be played on Oct. 19 at 11 a.m.

On the other half of the bracket No. 10 Hamilton Heights (23-4) will take on host New Castle (17-9), which finished 11th in the Z-Ratings. The winner of that game will take on the Delta Eagles (8-9) following the first semifinal.

Delta swept Jay County in a regular season matchup on Aug. 22 and New Castle beat the Patriots 2-0 in a tournament on Sept. 14. Jay County will see the Trojans again on Thursday before the sectional begins.