Tribe Tankers’ season end at regional meet

OXFORD, Ohio — The Indians’ season ended in Oxford.

The Fort Recovery High School swim team competed in seven events at the OHSAA Division II Southwest District meet on Friday at Miami University (Ohio), but couldn’t get anybody through to the state meet.

The top three individual finishers — top two in relays — in each event automatically qualify for the state finals, held at C.T. Branin Natatorium on McKinley’s campus from Feb. 18-22. The remaining spots — 20 in individual events and 12 in relays — go to the best next-best times from each district.

Joelle Kaup had the closest shot of the Indians, finishing 10th in the 50-yard freestyle with a time of 25.62 seconds. Kaup also swam the 100 backstroke, recording a time of 1 minute, 4.44 seconds, to take 18th.

Carson Fullenkamp had the highest finish of the boys, placing 25th in the 100 butterfly at 1:01.24. He also had a time of 2:24.13 for 31st in the 200 individual medley, while Caleb Smith placed 30th in the 100 breaststroke with a 1:12.52.

The girls sent the 200 medley relay and the 400 freestyle relay to the district. The latter placed 20th with a time of 4:17.98, while the former finished 23rd in 2:11.23.

Elwer controls

DELPHOS, Ohio — Fort Recovery’s boys basketball 

team couldn’t slow down Cameron Elwer as the Bluejay poured in 41 points to push St. John’s to an 81-43 victory.

Elwer scored all 41 points in the first three quarters before spending the fourth on the bench. St. John’s (19-1, 9-0 Midwest Athletic Conference) scored 23 or more points in the first three periods, while only putting up eight in the fourth.

Braylon Dilworth put up a career-high 10 points to tie Briggs Overman as the leading scorers for Fort Recovery (6-15, 2-7 MAC). The Indians scored 18 in the third period, but failed to break double digits in the other three.

The Tribe will face Tri-Village today before opening the postseason at 6 p.m. Feb. 20 against seventh-seeded Houston at Troy.

Tribe moves on

HUBER HEIGHTS, Ohio — The Fort Recovery boys bowling team finished as the runner-up in the OHSAA Division II bowling sectional at RollHouse Dayton on Thursday.

The Indians totalled 3,964 pins, second to Benjamin Logan with 4,137.

The finish punched the Indians a spot at the district meet at Beaver-Vu Lanes on Tuesday at 10:45 a.m. (The top 12 teams and 12 best individuals not on advancing teams clinch trips to the district.)

Riley Grieshop led the Indians with a 595 series, which put him 15th in the sectional. He rolled the Tribe’s high game of 247 pins.

Reece LeFevre and Garrett Diller each placed in the top 50 in the tournament, with the former shooting 585 for 18th and the latter placing 44th with a 531 series.

Fort Recovery put up the second-best Baker score of 1,131 pins.