Fort falls in finale

FORT RECOVERY — The Indians couldn’t flip their momentum heading into the postseason.

Fort Recovery High School’s boys basketball team dropped its season finale against the Tri-Village Patriots 71-36 Saturday.

Tri-Village (20-2) jumped on top of the Indians (6-16) right away to grab a 21-9 lead by the end of the first quarter. Griffin Richards sprayed three triples in during the period, while Dominic Black put up three buckets as well.

Richards led all scorers with 19 points, while Trey Sagester (14), Black (11) and Noah Finkbine (10) reached double digits as well.

Briggs Overman led the offense for Fort Recovery with 14 points. He scored seven in the first quarter, but only had a 3-pointer in the second and fourth periods and split a pair of free throws in the third.

Gavin Evers followed with nine points, while Brody Barga had five.

The Tribe will carry a three-game losing streak into its sectional championship game against seventh-seeded Houston on Thursday.

Seven cuts made

NEW CASTLE — The Jay County Winter swim team made four state cuts and three divisional cuts at the TAC Last Chance Invite at New Castle Middle School on Saturday.

Carsyn Guggenbiller had all four state cuts as she placed first in the 50-yard breaststroke (41.30 seconds), 50 butterfly (36.18), 100 freestyle (1 minute, 10.09 seconds) and the 100 butterfly (1:23.58).

Hayden Guggenbiller, who was the high point winner for 8-and-younger division, made a divisional cut in the 100 butterfly. Other tankers to make divisional cuts were Maddie Theurer in the 100 butterfly and Kali Wendel in the 1,650 freestyle.

Other high point winners were Grady Warvel from the 12-13-year-old division and Aubrey Millsapugh in the 15-and-older age group.

Hirschy leads bronze

NOBLESVILLE — All 10 athletes from the JC Flipsters gymnastics team made it into the top 10 all-around, while the Bronze Xcel team placed third at the Monkey Madness Invitational on Saturday.

Paxton Hirschy had the top finish of the Bronze Xcel team, placing fifth all-around with 36.45 points. Hirschy’s top event was the floor, as she grabbed second with a 9.3.

Jordyn Champ had the best all-around finish of the Flipsters, securing the runner-up spot in the Gold Xcel division with 37.25 points. Champ took first on the vault with a 9.275, finished as the runner-up on the beam (9.125) and placed third in the other events.

Emma Robinson put together the top performance of the Silver Xcel Flipsters. Robinson finished first on the vault (9.5) and second on the floor (9.45) to climb up to fourth overall with 36.95 points.