Fourth leads Fort to victory

FORT RECOVERY — The Indians didn’t get off to a great start, falling behind 5-0 through the first two innings.

But a massive fourth inning shot them in front and carried the Tribe to victory.

A 6-run fourth inning powered Fort Recovery High School’s baseball team to triumph over the Shawnee Indians 8-5 on Monday.

Brody Hart and Gavin Evers got the inning going with a pair of walks. Colson Post drove in the first run to get Fort Recovery (6-2) on the scoreboard. Another walk loaded the bases and a wild pitch plated Evers. Mason Diller then drove in two runs with a single to get within one of Shawnee (1-6).

A fourth walk of the inning set up Alex Gaerke for a two-RBI double to take a 6-5 lead. Caden Homan drove in a run in the fifth and Keegan Muhlenkamp scored on a wild pitch in the sixth.

Dylan Klenke earned the win by throwing the final six innings. He gave up one earned run on four hits and two walks, while striking seven batters out.

Loss in extras

FORT RECOVERY — The Fort Recovery softball team fell to the Newton Local Indians 8-6 in 11 innings on Monday.

FRHS (7-3) got ahead early with four runs in the second inning on an error and a Jenna Homan double. It scored two more in the sixth on a Paisley Hart groundout and a Layla Armstrong single.

But Newton Local (4-3) stormed back for its own four-run inning in the top of the seventh to tie the game. (It had a run in the first and sixth innings as well.) After three scoreless runs, NLHS claimed the lead off two singles and a triple.

The Tribe loaded the bases in the bottom half with a Hart single and a pair of walks, but couldn’t tie the game up.

Homan suffered the loss, throwing all 11 innings. She gave up eight runs on 16 hits while striking out eight batters.

Jay shut out

The Jay County baseball team couldn’t get anything going in its 15-0 loss to the Coldwater Cavaliers on Monday.

The Patriots (1-4) only managed four hits and runners only reached scoring position twice. Gavin Byrum, Grant Wendel, Carter Fugiett and Aiden Phillips had the four JCHS hits.

The Cavaliers (6-1) didn’t have such problems, scoring in four out of five innings. They put up two runs in the first, four in the fourth and an eight spot in the fifth inning that put the game out of reach.

Zedrian Vazquez suffered the loss, giving up six runs — four of which were earned — on seven hits over 3 ⅔ innings pitched.

Record set

Walter Campofiore set a new Jay County Junior High School boys track record in the long jump and both Patriot teams finished second in a tri-meet with Southern Wells and Adams Central on Monday.

Campofiore jumped a distance of 17 feet, 2 inches, to break the record. He also added victories in the 100-meter dash and 200 dash, but was the only boy to top an event.

The girls team had two individual first-place finishers and a relay team that took the top spot.

Macy DeHoff won the 110 hurdles, while Journey Reynolds claimed the 100 dash. Reynolds also anchored the 4x100 relay team that won its race. She was joined by Jordyn Champ, Miley Duncan and Kamzy Johnson.

The girls placed second in six events, while the boys had four runners-up.