FR baseball routs Twin Valley South

FORT RECOVERY — The Indians had a wild ride to the state championship game. Before they can think about making it back to Akron, they need to work through the earlier rounds, and they just check off the first step of the journey.

The second-seeded Fort Recovery High School baseball team picked up a 10-0 victory over the No. 9 seed Twin Valley South Panthers on Wednesday in the OHSAA Division VI Southwest 3 District semifinal.

The victory earned the Indians (17-8) a date with the sixth-seeded Legacy Christian Knights today at 5 p.m. at Houston.

Dylan Klenke pitched lights out for the Tribe, as he gave up only two hits and three walks over the five innings. He also sent batters back to the dugout eight times with strikeouts.

In support of Klenke’s effort on the bump, the middle of Fort Recovery’s lineup teed off on the Panthers (8-14). Caden Grisez led the way by going 2-for-3 with four RBIs and two runs on two-run home run in the third and a double in the fourth. Alex Gaerke and Gavin Evers also hit well, contributing two RBIs each.

Roessners show up

TROY, Ohio — Anna and Isaac Roessner of the Fort Recovery track competed at the OHSAA Division III track prelims hosted by Troy on Wednesday.

Anna Roessner set herself up well for today's finals in all three of her events, earning the top seed.

In the 100-meter dash, Anna Roessner earned the top seed with a time of 12.04 seconds, 0.45 seconds ahead of West Liberty-Salem’s Chloe Griffith.

Roessner finished over a full second ahead of the second seed in the 200 dash, by running a qualifying time of 12.40 seconds.

Roessner also earned the top seed in the 400 dash and was the only girl under a minute, crossing the finish line at 57.96 seconds.

Her brother, Isaac Roessner, just missed out on making the finals in the 300 hurdles. He finished the preliminary race in 41.68 seconds, while Spencer Center’s Joseph Williams claimed the final spot with a 41.39.

Roessner will await a callback in the long jump, as his distance of 20 feet, 3.25 inches, earned him fifth place. He came up 2 inches short of Marion Local’s Cale Nagel and the final qualifying spot — the top four finishes from each regional and the next two best across all competitors earn berths to the state tournament in Columbus.

Bats stumped

MUNCIE — Jay County’s 10th-ranked softball team had its bats stymied by the Hamilton Heights Huskies as its season came to a close on Wednesday with a 3-0 loss in the IHSAA Class 3A Sectional semifinal at Delta.

With the win, Hamilton Heights (12-10) moved on to play No. 6 Yorktown in Thursday’s sectional championship game.

Lily Cash of HHHS dazzled in the circle, only allowing one hit in the game to hold the Patriots (20-3) scoreless for the first time this season. It was only the sixth game out of 23 in which the Patriots had less than 10 runs scored.

Morgan Missicano had the lone hit in the bottom of the first inning.

Mallory Winner suffered the loss after giving up three runs over seven innings pitched. She surrendered five hits and one walk while striking out three batters.

The Huskies scored two runs in the second inning on a single by Isabel Morrow and a third in the fourth off the bat of Melanee Forrester.

Tri too much

BELLEFONTAIN, Ohio — After winning its first district championship, the No. 5 seed Fort Recovery softball team fell to the top-seeded and third-ranked Tri-Village Patriots 9-5 in the OHSAA Division VI regional opener at Bellefontaine on Wednesday.

The Patriots (27-0) advanced to the regional championship, where they will face No. 2 seed and fifth-ranked Minster on Saturday.

Tri-Village grabbed a 3-0 lead that it would never relinquish on two singles, an error and a walk in the bottom of the first inning. It put up four more runs in the fourth inning and answered Fort Recovery’s four-spot with two final scores in the sixth.

Jenna Homan suffered the loss after surrendering 10 hits and five walks that led to the nine runs. She paced the Indians (17-10) at the plate with a three-run blast in the fifth frame, but couldn’t get enough run support to take down Tri-Village.

PG14 wins

PG14’s offense flexed its muscles in a 16-4 win over Southern Thunder on Wednesday during Portland Junior League Willie Mays baseball play.

Liam Ridenour, Trey Hirschy and Corbin Brown all were perfect from the plate for PG14. Ridenour had a triple and two singles to drive in and score three runs. Brown matched Ridenour with three RBIs on two singles, while Hirschy had two hits and crossed the plate three times.