FRHS baseball, softball had 12 honored

The Tribe softball team climbed all the way to second place in the Midwest Athletic Conference.

With a majority of the MAC season over, the Indians baseball team is likely to finish either fifth or sixth.

With the postseason right around the corner, both teams had some strong representation in the conference awards.

The Fort Recovery High School baseball and softball teams combined to have twelve players recognized as the MAC released its postseason awards late on Monday night.

Jenna Homan and Emma Will headlined the softball team, as both were selected to the first team All-MAC.

Homan, who is one of four players listed as a pitcher on the graphic, threw 129 innings for the Indians (13-9, 5-2 MAC) this season earning a 12-8 record and a 4.02 ERA. She struck out batters 127 times on the season while issuing only 54 walks. Homan has also contributed with the bat, posting the second-best batting average on the team at .413, while leading the Indians with 27 RBIs, 13 doubles and three home runs.

Will, who manned center field throughout the season, held the team’s best batting average at .452. She collected 38 hits on the season and broke the school record for career hits during the Tribe’s game against Anna on April 29. She also leads the team in runs scored at 30.

Fourteen other players joined Homan and Will on the first team.

The baseball team had one player named to the first team All-MAC in right fielder Mason Diller.

The first-year starting senior on varsity earned a .378 batting average so far on the year with a .946 OPS. He’s driven in 27 runs and scored 22 times himself out of the second spot in the Tribe’s lineup.

Diller was joined by 19 other players on the first team.

Caden Grisez and Alex Gaerke both made the second team All-MAC. Both players have split time on the left side of the infield and on the mound for Fort Recovery (13-6, 4-5 MAC), as well as filling in the DH spot at times.

Grisez has pitched just over 12 innings for FRHS and has a 1.70 ERA, while Gearke put together a 3.67 ERA over a team-high 42 innings pitched. Gaerke has a .347 batting average on the year and has driven in 20 runs. With six games left in the regular season, Grisez has an average of .286 and 24 RBIs and runs scored.

In the softball awards, Ella Schoen was the only Indian selected to the second team All-MAC.

The senior third baseman boasted a .400 average with 24 runs scored and 15 RBIs on the season. She also had a .929 fielding percentage on the season after committing four errors on 56 attempts.

The softball team had a pair of honorable mentions in sophomore first baseman Alexis Grisez and freshman second baseman Layla Armstrong.

Four FRHS baseball players were recognized as honorable mentions. Those four were senior Jacob Foote and juniors, Dylan Klenke, Brodie Hart and Reece Wendel.

Taking home the major awards for softball were Parkway’s Bryn Schoenlein, who was the MAC Pitcher of the Year, and Addi Inskeep of Minster, who was the MAC Position Player of the Year.

Minster’s Louis Magoto earned the MAC Pitcher of the Year for baseball, while Mason Welsch of Coldwater took home the MAC Position Player of the Year award.