FRHS boy runners open season fourth in county

ROCKFORD, Ohio — The top returners came ready to run for the Tribe.

The Fort Recovery High School cross country teams had four runners finish in the top 15 at the Mercer County Meet hosted by Parkway on Tuesday.

The boys team finished with 104 points to finish fourth out of six teams. Marion Local claimed the top spot with 42 points. The girls had 113 points, but finished sixth, while Celina won with 28.

Makenna Huelskamp had the top finish  for FRJS with a time of 20 minutes, 28.34 seconds to cross the finish line third. The first two spots went to Celina’s Jennalee Dameron (20:04.14) and Elle Miesse.

Riley Heitkamp took 12th with a time of 22:18.73. Other scores for the girls came from  Madison Heitkamp (26th), Kendall Ranly (36th) and Claire Grube (49th).

Reese Diller led the boys with an eighth-place finish in 17:43.23. Freshman Alex Roessner came in on Diller’s tail to claim ninth with a time of 17:59.94.

Russell Hart (24th), Evan Diller (35th) and Ben Vogel (41st) also scored for FRHS.

Spikers fall

FORT RECOVERY — Fort Recovery’s volleyball team opened the season with a 25-21, 25-22, 23-25, 25-20 loss to the Memorial Roughriders on Tuesday.

Bridget Homan led the offensive attack with nine kills, while Cameron Muhlenkamp added seven.

The Tribe (0-1) got a decent chunk of their points defensively at the net as it recorded 17 blocks on Memorial (1-0). Brynn Willmann and Kayden Ranly had four blocks apiece, while Alexis Grisez followed with three blocks and five kills. Willmann also had a team-high three aces and Ranly had 26 assists.

Chloe Brockman led FRHS with 14 digs.