JCHS blanks Knights

Based on last season's result, the Patriots seemed to be a major underdog Thursday. That was not the case.

Jay County High School's girls soccer team needed just over six minutes to get on the board and shut out the visiting Norwell Knights 2-0.

"I'm beyond happy," said JCHS coach Abby Champ. "We lost to them 6-0 last year. ... We're excited."

After withstanding several Norwell shots in the opening minutes, the Patriots (2-2) pushed back at the other end of the field. Senior Loryn Horn's 25-yard shot from the right side ricocheted off the left post and across the front of the goal, where the Knights where unable to corral or clear it. That left he door open for junior Mallory Poole, who sent the ball to the left corner of the net for a 1-0 Jay County lead at the 33:59 mark of the opening half.

"That's been our goal," said Champ of the early strike. "We did that at Connersville ... and then again tonight.

"When we do that ... they get pumped up right away. ... It was very important."

Poole also scored for the Patriots in the second half after teammates pushed the ball up the right side of the field. She took a crossing pass at the top of the 18-yard box and converted the shot for the final margin.

JCHS finished with 14 shots, including six from Sammi Compton, four from Poole and three by Horn. Norwell had all of its 20 shots on goal turned away by Patriot goalie Mollie May.

Boys soccer rallies

OSSIAN - Brad Horn scored four times in the final 25 minutes Thursday to rally the Patriots to a 4-2 victory over the Norwell Knights.

Jay County trailed 1-0 at the half and fell behind by two when the Knights scored four minutes after the intermission. However, Horn caught fire beginning with a goal off of a Ben Brandt assist with 24 minutes left in the game.

Brandt and Aldo Castro assisted on the second Horn goal two minutes later, and then the senior added an unassisted score to put the Patriots in the lead. He recorded his final tally off of another Brandt assist with 15 minutes left in the game, and the JCHS defense held strong the rest of the way.

Horn, who had seven of the team's eight shots on goal, has scored 13 of its 16 goals this year. Adam Daniels finished with four saves.

The Patriots have won four straight since opening with a 4-0 loss to Muncie Central.

The junior varsity game finished in a 1-1 tie with Josh Priest scoring for JCHS and Aaron Stevens recording eight saves.

Volleyball falls

SELMA - The Class 2A No. 3 Wapahani Raiders clobbered the Patriots 25-17, 25-18, 25-10 Thursday.

Senior Ashley Langenkamp had 11 assists and five points to lead JCHS, which dropped to 1-10. Sierra Weatherhead totaled 10 digs and three points.

Danielle Wellman finished with six kills, Maria Murphy had four kills and Lacey Randolph added four digs.

Hannah Ainsworth recorded five assists and four points as the Jay County junior varsity team (4-4) lost 25-24, 25-13. The freshman team took its first loss of the year 25-15, 25-14 as Abby Vance finished with five digs and two kills.

AH tops boys tennis

The Anderson Highland Scots won all five varsity matches Thursday to drop the Patriots to 2-4 on the season.

Brad Leuthold played the tightest match for Jay County, falling 6-3, 6-3 to Kyle Laughlin at No. 2 singles. In other singles matches Jared Valentine lost 6-1, 6-3 to Rishi Patel and No. 1 and Joe Imel fell 6-1, 6-2 to Drew Juestion at No. 3.

Chance Fuller and Jordan McBride dropped the No. 1 doubles match 6-2, 6-0 against Nick Phillips and Caleb Rogers. In No. 2 doubles action Seth Ainsworth and Austin Cowan lost 6-1, 6-1 to Bobby Moran and Brady Reed.

Jay County and Highland split the six junior varsity matches with Derek Smith and Tony Schwieterman recording an 8-5 No. 1 doubles victory for the Patriots. Other wins came from Josh Martin and Evan Ryder by a 7-5 score at No. 2 doubles and Morton Garringer by an 8-7 (7-5) tally at No. 2 singles.

EJMS runners win

Abigail Johnson, Jalen Ryder and Zane Shreve all won their races Thursday to lead the East Jay Middle School cross country teams.

The girls squad defeated Muncie Wilson 15-50 while the sixth and seventh grade boys won 20-41 and the eighth grade boys took a 22-36 victory.

Johnson won the girls race in 14 minutes, 28 seconds as each of the first 13 finishes were Chiefs. Emi Minnich was second in 14:37 followed by Megan Wellman (14:38), Amber Huelskamp (14:51) and Alex Loy (15:00).

Ryder took the sixth and seventh grade boys race by nearly 50 seconds at 13:49, and Mitchell Bruggeman was third in 15:17. Matthew Cox took fourth in 15:18 with Matt Blackford (15:22) fifth and Bryan Schwieterman (15:45) seventh.

Shreve was first in the eighth grade boys competition by more than a minute as he finished in 12:42. Chaz Carroll placed third in 13:50 ahead of Nick Luethold (fifth - 14:08), Tyler Wendel (sixth - 14:29) and Austin Muhlenkamp (seventh - 14:34).[[In-content Ad]]