FR’s season ends at regional

The Tribe made the push to regional, but they couldn’t advance any further.

The Fort Recovery High School cross country teams had their season end at the OHSAA Division III Regional 11 hosted by Troy on Saturday.

The Tribe girls competed as a team, earning 300 points to place 11th. West Liberty Salem claimed the top spot with a 64, while Fort Loramie (79), Versailles (96) and Cedarville (108) earned the other state berths. Cedarville won the boys race with an 86.

Makenna Huelskamp paced the girls with a time of 20 minutes, 44.38 seconds to claim 28th place. She was 31.58 seconds behind Claire Stull of Newton Local, who claimed the final of eight individual state berths.

Other scores for the Indian girls came from Riley Heitkamp (43rd – 21:11.97), Madison Heitkamp (75th – 22:30.50), Kendall Ranly (118th – 24:38.26) and Yoselin Juarez-Gomes (133 – 26:31.21).

The top placement for the boys belonged to Alex Roessner, who’s 17:34.027 had him crossing the finish line in 47th. Calvary Christian’s John Gaertner claimed the last of 10 individual spots at state with a time of 16:58.04.

The Indians had five more boy runners and two girls compete at the regional. They were Reese Diller (84th – 18:23.05) Russell Hart (92nd – 18:32.85), Gavin Heitkamp (114th – 19:04.99), Andon Roessner (116th – 19:07.24), Andrew Rehmert (120th – 19:14.96), Addyson Heitkamp (134th – 26:38.72) and Claire Grube (144th – 27:57.25).