LeFevre leads Tribe bowlers past Lima Bath

FORT RECOVERY — Reece LeFevre hasn’t been in the lineup for every match, but when he is, he often produces some solid scores.

When the Wildcats came to visit, he was the most consistent of the Indians and powered them to victory.

LeFevre rolled a 428 series at Miracle Lanes to lead the Fort Recovery High School boys bowling team to a 2,091-1,964 win over the Lima Bath Wildcats on Thursday.

LeFevre opened the day with a game of 223 pins, beating out teammate Gabe Acheson by just eight. He followed it up with a 205, which only got outdone by Ricky Phillips’ 235, which was a match-high for the Wildcats.

Garrett Diller was the only other Indian to bowl two games, finishing with a 320 series.

Other individual scores for the Tribe (8-1) came from James Westgerdes (159), Troy Post (155), Riley Stammen (153) and Leland Wilson (143).

FRHS outscored Lima Bath in Baker play with games of 190 and 180, while the Wildcats shot 131 and 165.

Second seals it

FORT RECOVERY — Strong second games from Deanna Brown and Lilah Thien powered the Fort Recovery girls bowling team past the Lima Bath Wildcats 1,953-1,693 on Thursday at Miracle Lanes.

Thien shot a 184 in the first game before knocking down a match-high 225 pins in her second game. Brown rolled through 144 in the opening game before bouncing back for 213 in the second.

Malia Grisez also bowled two individual games finishing with a career-best 334 pins.

In other individual games, Liliana Williams threw a 143, Jadyn Wyerick shot a 135, Elizabeth Kahlig had a 112 and Claire Gaerke finished with 106.

The Indians (7-1) ran away with the match in the Baker games. They started with 180 pins and followed it up with 177. Lima Bath had games of 158 and 127.

Petro leads

FORT RECOVERY — The Jay County Junior High School girls basketball teams both beat Fort Recovery on Thursday.

The eighth grade team topped the Tribe 36-26.

A pair of Patriots scored in double figures with Brenna Weitzel dropping 14 points and Boo Towell putting up 10.

Also scoring for Jay County was Arabella Link with four points, Kyla Sims with three, Kinze Homan with three and Emalynn Clark with a bucket.

Gretchen Petro led the seventh grade team to a 30-9 victory. Petro had a game-high 16 points against the Indians.

Haley Comer followed with six points, while Kendall Farr had three. Brooklyn McGill and Alyssa Schwieterman both had a bucket and Makenna Wellman hit one free throw.

Boys sweep

Jay County Junior High School’s boys basketball teams took down Selma on Thursday with the eighth graders winning 41-27 and the seventh grade squad pulling out a 32-26 victory.

Abram Lee and Finn Hemmelgarn powered the eighth-grade Patriots with 17 and 12 points, respectively. Job Dirksen wasn’t far behind with seven points.

Dillon Dunnington and Eli Homan both had three in the win and Roman Clamme hit a bucket.

Carter May and Carson Pfeifer scored nine apiece to lead the seventh grade team. Sawyer Smitley found the hoop a couple of times for five points as well.

Cruz Darby and Beckham Hough each had three points, while Henry Teeter hit a 2-pointer and Ryker Price sank a free throw.