Indians make cut for district

SIDNEY, Ohio — The regular season isn’t over yet. A Midwest Athletic Conference Championship has yet to be clinched by any team.

Yet, the Indians advanced the postseason.

The Fort Recovery High School boys golf team’s score of 327 at the OHSAA Southwest Division III Sectional at Shelby Oaks Golf Club put them eight strokes above the cutline on Tuesday morning to advance them to the district match.

The top four teams advance to the district, while the top four performers not already on advancing teams make it through as well. The Indians finished fourth to claim the final spot by beating out Lehman Catholic (335). Botkins shot a 310 to claim the sectional crown, while Russia (318) and Fort Loramie (323) followed.

If Fort Recovery didn’t make it through as a team, FRHS junior Reece LeFevre’s round of 77 would have claimed the final spot. 

He tied for the seventh-best score in the sectional by making par 14 times, bogey twice and only taking double-bogey twice.

Botkins’ Ross Dietz ended as the individual sectional medalist with a 7-under-par 64.

Keegan Muhlenkamp  totaled 80 strokes. He had a birdie on the par-3 third.

Eli Lennartz provided the third score of 84, while Caleb Smith rounded things out with 86.

Mason Diller shot a 90 that didn’t impact the final.

FRHS still has the MAC Championship on Saturday before the district meet.