Sports Round-Up by Paul Beitler

4 Otters record first-place finishes
Logan Brink, Skyler Ruschhaupt, Dan Scher and Duke Wang of the Huntington-Wells Otters swim team came away with one first-place finish each in the Fort Wayne Aquatics Fall Classic on Oct. 30 and Nov. 1 at the Helen P. Brown Natatorium in Fort Wayne.
Brink won the girls’ 15-and-over age group 200-yard individual medley in 54.95 seconds. Ruschhaupt won the boy’s 15-over age group 100-yard breaststroke in 1:01.69.
Scher won the boys’ 15-and-over 50-yard freestyle in 22.45 seconds and Wang won the 11-12 boys’ 200-yard IM in 2:31.29.
Wang also had one second-place finish and six third-place finishes. Brink also recorded a second-place finish. Ruschhaupt also had two seconds. Dani Thomas had two thirds and two fourths. Kate Mahnensmith had a third, two fourths and one fifth. Joe Alleman had a second and Logan Ackley had a fourth.

Top W.O.O.F. finishers reported
Thomas Crum, 22, of Fort Wayne won the W.O.O.F. 15-mile run Saturday at Ouabache State Park, sponsored by the Ouabache River Runners.
Crum finished the race in one hour, 44 minutes and 14.4 seconds. Rustin Nyce, 30, of Goshen, was second in 1:48:22.6. Bluffton’s Bernie Zoll was third in 1:50:50.1.
Eliza Eshelman, 24, of Columbia City, was the first female finisher, placing 9th overall in 2:10:42.3. Bluffton’s Angie Lockwood was 11th overall in 2:13:14.0.
In the men’s 15-mile relay event, the team of Todd Yoder (Berne), Ryan Fiechter (Bluffton) and Brian Myers (Decatur) was first in 2:10:35.1.
In the mixed team relay, the Fort Wayne trio of Ed Fisk, Jeff Steinberg and Katherine Welch was first in 1:55:33.8.