Jay’s offense too much for Trojans

The Patriots returned a majority of their offensive players from the 2023 season.

The strikers weren’t very fruitful in the season opener, only scoring one goal to top Muncie Central.

One week later, and some of those returners are starting to click.

Blake Collins and Levi Muhlenkamp connected twice within the span of 2 minutes and 31 seconds to give the Jay County High School boys soccer team a firm lead over the New Castle Trojans en route to a 3-0 victory over the sectional foe on Tuesday.

The Patriots (2-0) first found the net only 6:35 into the game as Collins crossed a pass to Jay County’s returning offensive leader for the goal.

JCHS didn’t need to wait long to expand on its lead as Collins found Muhlenkamp for a second time with 30:54 remaining in the second half. Muhlenkamp ended up taking 11 shots in the game, up from only four in the opener.

New Castle (1-3) held the Patriots off until the second half, when Dylan Marentes found freshman Raif Beiswanger for his first career goal at the 21:20 mark.

Both of Jay County’s goalies had an easy day, only seeing three shots on the net between the two of them. Peyton Yowell manned the goal for the first 78 minutes, stopping two balls before freshman Rocky Beiswanger made a save in the final two minutes.