Teams advance to state

Two Patriot teams will be heading to state.

The Jay County High School Academic Team finished in the top five Tuesday to earn state berths at the Academic Senior Super Bowl Regional Area Contest. The top five teams — about 50 competed in the six-round competition — in each discipline advance to the state finals, which will be held May 10.

The English team of Jocelyn Nelson, Lainey Reynolds, Brooke Stauffer and Ava Stockton posted the best finish for JCHS. They took second place out of 47 teams to earn their state berth.

Joining them at the state finals will be the JCHS science team of Isaac Braun, James Larrowe, Lucas Lyons and Alex Ardizzone. They teamed to place fourth out of 47 teams at the regional competition.

Jay County narrowly missed a third state berth as the interdisciplinary team of Hannah Boggs, Braun, Stockton and Ardizzone placed sixth. They missed out on qualifying for state by way of a tiebreaker.

Also competing for JCHS were:

•Mackenzie Brown, Sarah McClain and Boggs, who were 13th in the fine arts competition.

•Lyons, Larrowe, Braun and Boggs, who took 16th in the math competition.

•Mackenzie Brown, Jocelyn Nelson and Ardizzone, who were 28th in the social studies competition.