Tribe girls fall to Panthers

FORT RECOVERY — The Tribe played its second Midwest Athletic Conference opponent and suffered almost the exact same fate.

The Fort Recovery High School girls basketball team fell to the Parkway Panthers 46-29 on Thursday, dropping its eighth game to start the season.

The loss was also the second to come in the MAC for the Indians (0-8, 0-2 MAC) as they lost to Marion Local 47-29 on Dec. 11 with nearly a mirror image of the final score.

Paisley Hart had all five of her points in the first quarter to keep FRHS within striking distance of the Panthers at 12-8. But Fort Recovery only managed a pair of free throws in the second quarter, giving Parkway (6-1, 1-1 MAC) a 9-point advantage at the intermission.

The Tribe offense started to come alive in the third quarter with 12 points, but the defense couldn’t keep up as the Panthers outpaced Fort Recovery 27-19 in the second half.

Cameron Muhlenkamp scored a team-high seven points, all of which came in the fourth quarter, while Maddie Schoenlein had six.

Other FRHS scores came from Hart (five points), Bridget Homan (five), Ivy Tobe (four) and Makenna Huelskamp (two).

Madelyn Stover led Parkway with 20 points, half of which came at the charity stripe. Brittyn Bruns followed with 14 of her own.

Boys sweep

PONETO — The Jay County Junior High School boys basketball teams took care of business on Thursday as the eighth grade team defeated Southern Wells 47-11, while the seventh graders downed the Raiders 44-25.

Job Dirksen outscored the Raiders by himself with 16 points. Abram Lee also broke double-digits with 11.

Following Dirksen and Lee were Finn Hemmelgarn (nine points), Eli Homan (four), Bentley Comer (four) and Roman Clamme (three).

Carson Pfeifer led the Patriots in the seventh-grade game with 10 points and Beckham Hough added nine.

The rest of the scoring was spread out, coming from Cruz Darby (six points), Henry Teeter (four), Benson Collins (three), Mason Paxson (three), Ethan Paxson (three), Carter May (two), Parker Wasson (two) and Maverick McGill (two).

Link leads

Jay County Junior High School’s girls basketball teams swept the Southern Wells Raiders on Thursday.

Arabella Link scored 15 points to lead the eighth grade team past Southern Wells 31-25. Brenna Weitzel almost broke double digits as well, scoring nine points. Kinze Homan only had two points, but ran the offense with eight assists.

The seventh graders won 30-15 with Gretchen Petro’s eight points leading the way. Makenna Wellman and Kendall Farr followed closely behind with seven points each, while Haley Comer added six. Adalee Rigby also had one bucket.