Diller runner-up at Troy Twilight

TROY, Ohio — Reese Diller set his season best time in the first meet of the season all the way back on Aug. 20.

He demolished that time, and worked his way up to second place to carry the Indians.

Diller smashed his career best time by just under a minute to lead the Fort Recovery High School boys cross country team to a 18th-place finish out of the 32-team field at the Troy Twilight on Saturday.

The boys ended with 505 points to tie Shawnee for 18th. Wyoming won the race with the low of 55.

The girls finished with 677 to place 26th. Mason’s 125 points took the top spot.

Diller dropped 53.94 seconds off of his career best time to cross the finish line in 17 minutes, 24 seconds flat. Wyoming’s Evan Robinson beat him out for the top spot by 2.4 seconds.

Evan Evers added the second FRHS score, finishing 106th in 19:38.2.

Russell Hart also set a career best at 19:56.1 for 133rd.

The final two scores came from Evan Diller (166th - 20:23.6) and Milo Filey (261st - 21:35).

Joelle Kaup paced the girls to finish 36th in a career-best 20:11.7.

Anna Roessner (22:07.4) and Riley Heitkamp (22:08.9) finished near each other, with the former claiming 165th and the latter placing 169th.

Maddie Heitkamp finished in 23:39.8 to score 275th, while Nicole Braun scored for the first time in her career. She placed 346th by running a 25:50.2.

Fort finishes ninth

CELINA, Ohio — The Fort Recovery boys golf team shot a 342 to finish 9th out of 20 teams at the Nate Niekamp Invitational on Saturday at Mercer County Elks Golf Club.

Minster walked away with the win after shooting 318.

Reece LeFevre led the Indians with a 75, which also put him fourth out of all golfers. He had a 

40 on the front nine with a birdie on hole No. 1, three pars and four bogeys. He cut that number down to 35 (one under par) on the back half. He had three birdies over a four hole stretch, all of which were par-4s.

Keegan Muhlenkamp had the next best score for FRHS, shooting an 85. He made par 10 times in the round.

Eli Lennartz and Riley Grieshop rounded out the team score with rounds of 90 and 92, respectively.

Mason Diller’s 99 didn’t affect the team final.