FR falls to Roughriders

FORT RECOVERY — The Tribe played a strong second half, but it wasn’t enough to undo the struggles in the first.

The Fort Recovery High School girls basketball team dropped its season opener 48-32 Friday to the Memorial Roughriders.

The Indians (0-1) struggled to contain Memorial (1-0) in the first half, giving up 15 points in the first quarter and 14 in the second. Claire Turner scored eight of her 10 points in the first half, while Sophie Menker added seven.

Fort Recovery scored just nine points in the first 16 minutes. Cameron Muhlenkamp scored once in the opening quarter and split two pairs of free throws, while Bridget Homan added a bucket. Maddie Schoenlein had the only score for FRHS in the second, hitting a 3-pointer.

The Tribe picked things up in the second half with 10 points in the third quarter and 13 in the fourth.

Muhlenkamp finished with a game-high 13 points, while Makenna Huelskamp followed with nine. Homan had four, and Kayla Gaerke matched Schoenlein with a triple.

Audrey Reineke led the Roughriders with 11 points, seven of which came in the third quarter.

FRHS will have another test coming up on Nov. 28 when it hosts the Mississinawa Valley Blackhawks.