Jay girls soccer notches win in season opener

RICHMOND — The Patriots added the Red Devils to their schedule this season, and it paid off by allowing them to secure a win early in the season.

The Jay County High School girls soccer team captured its season opener with a 4-2 win over the Richmond Red Devils on Monday.

Aixa Lopez put JCHS (1-0) ahead early, scoring a goal after only 6 minutes, 21 seconds, of play. Later in the first half, Finley Hatzell found the back of the net with 10:53 remaining in the half to take a 2-0 lead.

The Red Devils (0-2) snuck a pair of goals in the second half, but they were negated by a Morgan DeHoff score with 13:18 left and another by Jenna Dues with 10:38 remaining.

Goalie Maleah Parsons had five saves in the game, and DeHoff added an assist to her statline.

The junior varsity also beat Richmond 1-0. London Lloyd scored the goal for Jay County, and Raylin Hummer notched three saves.

Patriots fall

ANDERSON — The Jay County girls golf team fell to the Anderson Indians 226-237 on Monday at Grandview Golf Course.

Maddy Snow and Anderson’s Addison Goen tied with 49 strokes to be co-match medalists. Snow made par on the 10th (par-4), 14th (par-5) and 16th (par-4 holes). She also had two late bogeys to support her round.

Bailey Towell picked things up to finish with a 52 to notch the second-best score of all golfers and a career best. Her previous two nine-hole scores were 59 and 64.

The freshman only made par on the 10th hole, but added four bogeys on holes No. 13, 15, 16 and 17.

Brooklynn Bright and Erin Aker both finished with 68s to round out the scoring for Jay County (1-2).

Tennis swept

The Jay County boys tennis team fell to Madison-Grant 5-0 in its home opener Monday.

Freshmen Alex Miller and Kayden Carpenter won the most games out of the Patriots, but still fell to Leo Hood and Lucas Querry 6-1, 6-2 in the No. 1 doubles match.

Blake Kahlig and Carter Wellman suffered a similar fate in the No. 2 doubles contest, losing 6-1, 6-1 to Keagan Brown and Lucas Richards.

Luke Nelson picked off Gabe Pinkerton 6-0, 6-2 in the No. 3 singles match, while JCHS No. 1 singles player Eli Dirksen lost 6-0, 6-1 to Luke Gilman.

Tucker Griffin got swept in his first match for Jay County (0-3) by Ben Pax.

Carson Westgerdes and Kason Sims both lost in their junior varsity singles matches by scores of 8-4 and 8-5, respectively.

Troy Lee and Clark Wellman picked up the only win for JCHS, as they won the JV doubles match 8-7.