Jay summer swim dominates Union City

Jay County started the season the way they wanted, and it just continues to steamroll its competition.

Eight triple-event winners led the Jay County summer swim team to a 832-142 demolition of the Union City Swim team at Portland Water Park on Thursday.

Jay County won all but two of the events and claimed the top three spots in 35 of the 81 events.

Three swimmers from the 9-10-year-old age group claimed three victories.

Addisyn Champ and Carsyn Guggenbiller dominated the girls side with the former winning the long freestyle, backstroke and short freestyle and the latter topping the butterfly, individual medley and the breaststroke.

Sam Gibson represented the boys with three first-place finishes in the long freestyle, IM and breaststroke.

Sophie Warvel gathered victories in the girls 11-12-year-old division as she took the long freestyle, butterfly and short freestyle. Sam Benirschke finished atop the boys side three times in the backstroke, breaststroke and short freestyle.

Three more boys got a trio of wins with Henry Warvel dominating the 8-and-younger division, Lincoln Clamme handling the 15-and-older group and Cooper Glentzner winning in the 13-14-year-old category.

Errors help Indians

ROCKFORD, Ohio — The Fort Recovery ACME baseball team got back on track by taking advantage of seven errors by the Parkway Panthers in an 11-2 win on Tuesday.

A pair of errors by Parkway’s shortstop gave the Indians (3-4) a three-run advantage out of the gate.

Alex Gaerke surrendered back-to-back doubles in the bottom half of the first inning to give the Panthers two runs back, but locked down afterwards to get the win. Dylan Kelnke pitched the final three innings without giving up a hit.

The Indians also scored a run in the second inning on a Caden Grisez double, two in the fourth on a groundout and an error, two in the fifth on Reece Wendel’s double and three in the sixth on an error and a walk by Jacob Foote.

Only five of Fort Recovery’s runs were earned.

Guntle leads

Portland Forge came away with a 16-7 win over Local 1620 on Thursday in Portland Junior League Sandy Kofax baseball.

Brayden Guntle led the way for Portland Forge with four RBIs and two runs scored. His efforts were largely supported by Cohen Shimp, who scored three runs and drove two more in.

Tanner Day, Dustin Franks, Varen Ridgeway and Jackson Wasson all scored two runs as well for Portland Forge.

Alex Miller and Caden Carpenter picked up the offensive load for Local 1620. Miller hit a pair of doubles and came around to score both times. Carpenter smashed a home run in the first inning to get his team started.

Pitcher Eli Westgerdes also scored twice in the loss.