LeFevre claims MAC match medalist

CELINA, Ohio  — The Indians didn’t quite have the regular season they were hoping for.

In the conference tournament, they started to turn things around, and their top golfer left with some hardware.

Reece LeFevre claimed match medalist honors at the Midwest Athletic Conference tournament Saturday held at Mercer County Elks Golf Course to lead the Fort Recovery High School boys golf team to a third-place finish.

The Indians finished with 318, falling two short of Coldwater and 12 short of MAC Champion Minster. FRHS finished the year fifth in the MAC standings.

LeFevre’s round of 72 tied Minster’s Bryce Prenger, but in a playoff on the 18th hole, the FRHS junior made par to beat Prenger’s bogey for the title.

Highlights from LeFevre’s round include three birdies and an eagle on the par-4 10th hole.

Keegan Muhlenkamp finished three strokes back with a 75 for the sixth-best score. Caleb Smith followed with an 85. All three golfers received MAC honors, with LeFevre and Muhlenkamp making the first team and Smith being an honorable mention.

Colson Post rounded out the team score with an 86, while Mason Diller’s 89 and Eli Lennartz’s 94 didn’t affect the final.

Kaup paces

VERSAILLES, Ohio — The Fort Recovery girls cross country team got back on track with a third-place finish at the Tour de Sewer on Saturday, while the boys finished 10th.

The girls finished with 93 points, while Brooklville’s 53 claimed the top spot. On the boys side, FRHS scored 264 points and host Versailles won the race with 28.

Joelle Kaup paced the Indians with a time of 20 minutes, 47 seconds flat to finish as the runner-up. Ava Rismiller of Versailles crossed the finish line 19.9 seconds before the FRHS senior.

Riley Heitkamp also made the top 10, crossing the line eighth after 21:52.4. Other scores for the Indians came from Anna Roessner (23:03.4 – 20th), Maddie Heitkamp (23:36.1 – 26th) and Kendall Ranley (26:18.4 – 59th).

Reese Diller led the boys as a time of 18:44.9 netted him a 40th-place finish. Evan Evers came in next, crossing after 20:26.3 in 74th.

Russell Hart (21:01.4) and Milo Filey (21:04.2) had back-to-back finishes for 83rd and 84th, respectively.

Rounding out the team score was Evan Diller, claiming 91st in 21:35.5.