Jay Co. JV steals one from Scots (10/07/03)

Jay County’s junior varsity football team pulled off a Colts-like comeback a few hours before Indianapolis shocked the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.

Trailing 26-6 after three periods, the Patriots scored 21 fourth-quarter points. Adam Foster hit Micah Enyart with a 45-yard touchdown pass with 12 seconds left, and Chris Elmore hit the extra point for the Jay County win.

The touchdown reception was one of two in the game for Enyart. He also caught a 65-yard scoring pass from Justin Gilbert.

Josh Parker had the other two Patriot touchdowns, scoring on runs of four and seven yards.

Josh Glessner caught a two-point conversion pass from Foster.

Elmore booted a pair of onside kicks in the fourth quarter, recovering one himself. Bill Spahr had the other onside kick recovery.

Jess Lewellen forced a fumble and came up with the recovery.

Patriot freshmen fall

Bluffton proved too powerful for the Jay County freshman football team (3-2) last week, defeating the Patriots 22-14.

Josh Johnson and Kaleb Carpenter connected on two touchdown passes in the game for scores of four and 57 yards. Johnson also passed to Casey Waters for a two-point conversion.

Johnson sets record

Amanda Johnson set a new East Jay record as she led the Chief girls to victory in a four-way meet with West Jay, Delta and Wes-Del Monday.

East Jay’s girls had 21 points, and Delta was second with a score of 38.

Only East Jay and Delta had enough runners to compete in the eighth grade boys competition. East Jay won by three, 26-29.

Delta was first in the seventh grade boys race with a score of 24. East Jay scored a 44, and West Jay had 62 points.

Johnson took first place for the East Jay girls, edging Delta’s Sarah Miller by less than a second. Her new school-record time was 11:23.1.

Kylie Wellman placed third for East Jay in 11:46, and Amber Detro was fourth in 12:06. Cassandra Laux was sixth for East Jay with a time of 12:49, and Brianne Wellman was four seconds back in 12:53.

Kristin Selvey was the top West Jay finisher in eighth place in 12:59, with Krystal Hutchens 11th in 13:05. Kayla Barber placed 18th in 13:58, Brittany Burris was two seconds back in 19th place and Whitney Henderson was 26th in 14:35.

Edwin Clott placed second for East Jay in the eighth grade boys race in 10:56.

Cody Sutton took fourth with a time of 11:17, and Justin Moser was fifth in 11:43. Justin Hall placed seventh in 12:09 with Leo Muhlenkamp eighth in 12:31.

West Jay’s Brady Mills topped the seventh grade boys race with a time of 10:55. He was followed by Jeremiah Cotherman in seventh in 11:44.

Ty Fullenkamp was 16th in 13:27, Willie Mayfield finished 17th in 14:21 and Spencer Pitman was 19th in 14:32.

The top finisher for East Jay was Steven Kelly in fourth place with a time of 11:12. Joey Franks was 10th in 12:04 and David Darby followed in 12:31.

Daniel Muhlenkamp placed 13th in 12:33, and Colt Martin was 14th with time of 12:48.

Baseball tryouts

The D.C. Lightning baseball team for 10-year-olds is preparing for the 2004 season.

The team plays various area teams, as well as some from Kentucky and Ohio. Games are played under high school rules.

For information on tryouts call Brad Tanner at (765) 759-8350, Loren Temple at (765) 286-7409 or Lonnie Fuller at (765) 768-1281.[[In-content Ad]]