Tribe volleyball snaps five match losing streak

FORT RECOVERY and WAPAKONETA, Ohio — The Tribe has had some ups and downs during the 2025 campaign. Recently, they’ve had both another down and another up.

Fort Recovery High School’s volleyball team dropped its Saturday match to the Russia Raiders 23-25, 25-13, 25-20, 27-25 before snapping a five-match losing streak on Monday against Wapakoneta 5-23, 25-18, 25-3.

Cameron Muhlenkamp led the Indians (4-9) in the loss to Russia (9-4) with 16 kills and five aces. Other leaders were Alexis Grisez with four blocks, Kayla Gaerke with 19 digs and Kayden Ranly with 32 assists.

Bridget Homan’s 11 kills powered FRHS against Wapakoneta (10-6), while Muhlenkamp put down nine balls.

Fort Recovery found the floor while serving 19 times. Ranly found a lot of success behind the service line with nine aces.

The same three girls led in blocks, digs and assists. Grisez sent three balls back, Gaerke saved 15 more from finding the floor and Ranly dished out 24 assists.

Jay falls

MONROEVILLE — The Jay County boys soccer team dropped its final Allen County Athletic Conference match of the season on Monday 2-1 to the Heritage Patriots.

Neither team could find an advantage in the first half as neither team could find the back of the net.

Yet, JCHS (5-7-1, 1-3 ACAC) drew first blood as Raif Beiswanger sent a through ball to Emmitt Reynolds to score with 21 minutes remaining in the half.

Things fell apart for Jay County from there as Heritage (5-5, 2-1 ACAC) responded quickly before finding one more score with five minutes remaining.

Peyton Yowell saved 10 balls during the game.

Jay County will finish third in the ACAC standings, while Heritage has one more match against Woodlan to decide the conference champion.

May paces

YORKTOWN — The Jay County girls cross country team finished third at the Jim Leffler Invite hosted by the Yorktown Tigers on Saturday, while the boys didn’t have enough competitors to place.

The Patriots finished with 67 points, while Guerin Catholic claimed first with 19. Yorktown won the boys race with a 47, while JCHS only had four runners.

Ava May finished 26.92 seconds behind Taylor Tragesser to finish second in 20 minutes 54.4 seconds.

Brooklynn Byrum and Jessie Homan came in next at 15th and 17th with times of 22:00.09 and 22:12.2, respectively. Paityn Wendel leapt up to finish 20th with a 22:24.56, while Abby Fifer’s 22:47.01 had her crossing the line in 24th to round out the team score.

Alex Rivers paced the boys with a 19:31.25 to earn 38th place.

Grant Glentzer ended up in 48th with a 19:54.01. Ethan Powers (21:59.26) and Isaac Hawbaker (25:37.34) also competed, finishing in 76th and 102nd.

Tribe is seventh

VERSAILLES, Ohio — Fort Recovery’s boys cross country team claimed seventh at the Tour De Sewer on Saturday, while all four girls ran season best times.

The Indians finished with 193 points to claim seventh in the 12-team field. Host Versailles won the meet with a 31. Versailles also won the girls race with a 37.

Alex Roessner paced the Tribe with a 17 minutes, 17.9 seconds, time that had him crossing the finish line in 10th place.

Reese Diller produced the Indians’ second-best time of 18:40.1 for 39th.

The remaining scores came from Gavin Heitkamp (52nd – 19:11.9), Andon Roessner (62nd  – 19:36.2) and Russell Hart (84th – 20:31.6).

Makenna Huelskamp set a new career best time of 20:03.9 to finish as the runner-up. (Addy Abner of Valley View won the event with a 19:23.3.)

Riley Heitkamp also earned a ribbon as her 21:41.3 earned 14th.

Madison Heitkamp crossed the line in 30th with a 22:52.8 and Yoselin Juarez-Gomez ended up 75th with a 26:17.0.