Patriot girls tie record

The Patriots earned a share of the record Tuesday. They’ll get a chance to break it Thursday.
With a couple of victories in its home pool — 82-17 over Hagerstown and 88-13 over Blackford — the Jay County High School girls swim team tied the school record for wins with their 11th.
That matches the mark set in 1976 and repeated in ’91, ’92 and 2000, and the Patriots can break the record when they close their regular season Thursday at Marion.
The JCHS boys also earned two wins, 71-26 over Blackford and 55-34 over Hagerstown.
In her final home dual meet, senior Megan Taylor was one of seven individuals to earn victories for the Patriots as she took the diving competition with 178.05 points. French foreign exchange student Charlotte Becot was first in 2 minutes, 7.62 seconds in the 200 freestyle.
Senior Neal Fennig earned a pair of victories for the boys team, taking the 50 freestyle in 23.74 and the 100 freestyle with a time of 50.66. Wiley Young took the 200 individual medley and 100 butterfly.
Other victories came from Eme Miller, Mary Hudson, Alyson Lucas, Caitlin Mark and Julie Valentine for the girls team, and Alex Sutton for the boys.

Chief girls win
The East Jay Middle School seventh grade girls basketball team dominated visiting Blackford 30-13 Tuesday. The eighth graders also won, 30-23.
Gabby Hart scored 13 points to lead the Chief seventh graders, who shut out Blackford in the first quarter. Sydney Robbins added six points.
Catherine Dunn totaled 15 points to lead the EJMS eighth grade squad. Breanne McIntire added six points.

EJMS pins Blackford
HARTFORD CITY — All 11 of the East Jay wrestling team’s victories came by pin Tuesday as it clobbered host Blackford 60-6.
The pins included a run of four straight weight classes from Matt Blackford (110), Luke Rowles (115), Phillip Fox (120) and Ian Bentz (125). Also adding pins were Colton Compton (80), Alex Abbott (100), Levi Hummel (135), Kaleb Toland (145), Dustin Cope (152), Hunter Gillette (160) and Logan Antrim (HWT).

Sixth grade teams split
East Jay’s sixth grade boys basketball team picked up a 43-24 victory over Union City Westside Tuesday while the West Jay girls fell 25-19.
Jason Schlosser scored 15 points as East Jay improved to 3-1. Ryan Burkett added 12 points.
Kyndal Miller and Lilly Rogers each had six points for West Jay.
In B team games, Ian Reynolds had six points to lead East Jay to a 33-8 win, and Alli Campbell scored five points as West Jay won 16-8.

Bader leads swimmers
FORT WAYNE — Eliza Bader was the top competitor for the Jay County Winter Swim Team at this weekend’s Fort Wayne Aquatics Winter Classic.
Bader picked up victories in the 8-and-younger girls 25-yard freestyle, 100 freestyle and 100 individual medley. She added three runner-up finishes and took high-point honors in her division.
Cady Farlow was the runner-up in the 13-14-year-old girls 100 breaststroke, and Anne Vormohr took second in the 13-14-year-old girls 100 backstroke. Other top-five efforts came from Sophie Bader, Ava Bubp, Lillian Clemmons and James Keen.[[In-content Ad]]