JC moves up in AP poll (02/20/07)

INDIANAPOLIS - The Patriots keep climbing their way back toward the top. An eight-game winning streak will do that.

The Jay County boys basketball team crushed Union City 57-27 Saturday for its eighth straight win, then moved up one spot from seventh to sixth in this week's Class 3A poll released Monday by The Associated Press.

The streak is the second longest current run in Class 3A, only trailing undefeated and No. 1 Edgewood (17-0). No. 3 Roncalli (17-1) and No. 8 Washington (16-3) have also won eight in a row.

The Patriots (15-3), who host Norwell (10-6) tonight, earned 110 points in this week's poll. They are 20 behind No. 5 Connersville (14-3), a team they lost to 47-43 in overtime Jan. 12, and 15 ahead of seventh-ranked Bishop Dwenger (15-3).

Jay County's only other losses this year came against Class 4A No. 1 Muncie Central (17-2) and Centerville (12-6).

Stars top Bellmont

GENEVA - The South Adams Middle School wrestling team used a couple of short runs to knock off Bellmont 39-25 Monday.

The Starfires (4-1) won three consecutive matches twice during the evening, getting two pins during each stretch. Todd Batt (80) and Justin Miller (85) gave South Adams its only back-to-back pins of the night, and Gabe Sprunger (90) followed with a 6-4 victory.

At 135 pounds, Adam Hofstetter won by a pin with T.J. Brunfield (145) following with a 7-6 decision and Cody Conner (155) contributing another pin.

Other victories came by way of a pin for Cajon Dailey (120) and a 7-2 decision for Josh Ehr (115).

Fort finishes season

CELINA - Tournament life ended for the Fort Recovery seventh grade boys basketball team Monday as it fell 34-26 to the St. John's Blue Jays.

The Indians managed just three first-quarter points and trailed by 10 at the half. They got within seven after three periods, but could not come all the way back as they finished the year at 4-13.

Jared Kahlig scored six points to lead Fort Recovery, and Jacob Leuthold and Jason Pottkotter each had five. Jacob Whitacre and Derek Gaerke scored four points apiece.

Cady qualifies

MUNCIE - Cady Farlow turned in a big day for the Jay County Winter Swim Team Sunday, scoring a pair of victories while qualifying for the state championship meet.

Farlow took first place in both the 9-10-year-old girls 100-yard backstroke and 100 breaststroke as the team competed at the Muncie Cardinal Winter Swim Classic. Her breaststroke time of 1:31.55, a career-best, earned her a spot in the state meet. She was also second in the 50 breaststroke.

Mitchell Kaverman, Ashley Mark, Sidney Sprunger, Anne Vormohr, Sok Vormohr and Cori Vormohr each placed first or second in all of their events. Adding at least one individual victory apiece were Laura Bowen, Michaela Long and Wiley Young.

Minster tops Tribe

FORT RECOVERY - The Wildcats proved too much for the Fort Recovery eighth grade girls basketball team, which dropped out of the Midwest Athletic Conference tournament Saturday with a 49-34 loss to Minster.

Kendra Brunswick scored 15 points in the defeat. Olivia Thien added seven points, and Nicole Dilworth scored five.[[In-content Ad]]