Patriot boys earn their fourth straight win

WOODBURN — The Patriots had a rocky start to the season.

After picking up only one win among two losses and two ties, they have turned their fortunes around for four straight victories.

The Jay County High School boys soccer team picked up its fourth-straight victory with a dominant performance over its Allen County Athletic Conference-foe, the Woodlan Warriors, for an 8-0 trumping on Saturday.

The Patriots (5-2-2, 2-1 ACAC) found the goal three times in the first half before exploding for five goals in the second.

Levi Muhlenkamp led the scoring with one goal in each half — at the 25:20 mark in the first and 31:27 in the second — and two assists. He only needed six shots at the goal to find the net twice.

Setting up his teammates throughout the match was Dylan Marentes. He tallied a team-high four assists while scoring once himself.

Goals also came from Hugo Gutierrez, Oskar Mateo, Emmitt Reynolds, Brenden Runyon and Zavier Hudson.

Kaleb Coppock manned the goal, and sent away all eight scoring attempts by Woodlan (1-11, 0-3 ACAC).

Overtime loss

WOODBURN — Jay County’s girls soccer team suffered its fourth conference loss of the season to the Woodlan Warriors, falling 4-3 in overtime on Saturday.

Woodlan (5-2-4, 3-1) scored two goals in the first half and another early in the second half off of a freekick to build a 3-0 lead over Jay County (3-7-1, 2-4).

Aixa Lopez broke the silence for the Patriots, scoring on a penalty kick with 17 minutes remaining.

Two quick goals forced the overtime period.

At the 3:53 mark, Morgan DeHoff was able to bring Jay County within one on an unassisted goal. Just 40 seconds later, the Patriots scored again when Lopez crossed the ball close to the goal and Molly Muhlenkamp successfully crashed and sent it in for the score.

The Warriors put Jay County away in overtime, with Lopez nearly tying on a freekick to the top right corner that required a nice save by Jenna Mackin.

Boggs sets pace

The Jay County boys cross country team finished eighth out of ten Saturday at the Yorktown Invitational.

Its score of 197 was good enough to top Anderson (215) and Wes-Del (228), while Lawrence North took home the crown with 29.

The girls did not have the required number of runners to field a team score.

Joseph Boggs set the pace for the boys, earning a time of 17:28.7 for 12th-place. Yorktown’s Wyatt Turner won the race in 16:16.9.

Also scoring for the boys were Caleb Garringer (29), Max Klopfenstein (40), Darren Fisher (56) and Lukes Powers (60).

The girls had three athletes competing at the meet. Alexis Sibray led the trio with an 18th-place finish with a time of 22:30.9. Faith Norris of Daleville led all girls and outpaced Sibray by a minute and 22 seconds.

Behind Sibray were Willow Hardy in 26th-place and Courtney Harris in 36th out of 58 athletes competing.

Junior High splits

The Jay County Junior High coed tennis team split its first two matches of the year with a 5-0 victory over Marion and a 3-2 loss to Hagerstown on Saturday.

Singles winners for the Patriots against Marion were Paul Dirksen (No. 1), Henry Dirksen (No. 2) and Claudia Dirksen (No. 3).

Raylin Hummer and Bailey Towell paired up for the No. 1 doubles match while Maddy Clark and Renna Hurt won the No. 2 doubles contest.

The Patriots played about 15 total matches against Hagerstown, with the first five determining the outcome. Picking up the two Jay County wins were Claudia Dirksen and the pair of Hummer and Towell.

Other Patriots to notch wins in the following matches were Clark, Hurt, Joshua Brown, Henry Dirksen, Paul Dirksen, Kaityln Fisher, Hallie Homan and Kaisen Sims.

Spikers slide

YORKTOWN — The Jay County Junior High volleyball team finished 1-4 at the Munciana tournament on Saturday.

The Patriots (8-5) lost all three games in bracket play, falling to New Palestine (25-13, 25-18), Yorktown (25-20, 25-6) and Southwood (23-25, 25-23, 15-9).

They took down Selma 25-19, 25-15 in the first round of bracket-play before being bounced by New Castle 25-15, 27-2.

Brenna Ruble led the Patriots with 11 kills throughout the day. Amelia Heath followed with nine while earning seven blocks as well.

Kenady Lyons finished with 17 assists and 15 aces throughout the five matches. She had the most points of the Patriots with 33 as well.

Gabi Petro led the defensive effort with 12 digs.