Patriots pound UCCHS

It took the Patriots less than two minutes to get on the scoreboard. Before the three-minute mark passed, they were up 3-0.

Jay County High School's boys soccer team won its fifth straight game Tuesday, dominating the visiting Union City Indians 9-3.

Brad Horn opened the scoring for JCHS (5-1), which has been perfect since a 4-0 loss to Muncie Central in the season opener, with his 14th goal of the season with just 1:44 off of the game clock. Twenty-six seconds later Patrick Johnson found himself 1-on-1 with the Union City goalie and converted the goal, and he pushed the Patriots to a 3-0 lead with another score at 37:02.

Chris Franco of the Indians got his team on the board less than a minute later, but Jay County was far from finished. Ben Brandt scored off of Alex Dunn's second assist of the game, and Brad Horn scored two more times in the opening half for a 6-1 advantage.

The Patriots, who went heavily to their bench after the opening five minutes, got second-half goals from Aldo Castro, Adam Abbott and Aaron Loy to push to an eight-goal lead. Earnest Martinez and Omar Calderon scored for Union City in the final 10 minutes of the game.

Chris Stephens finished with two saves for Jay County, and Adam Daniels had one save.

Golfers get a split

YORKTOWN - Jay County's girls golf team scored a 204 Tuesday at The Players Club to finish second in a three-team meet.

The host Yorktown Tigers won easily at 170 while Wes-Del finished third, 50 strokes behind the Patriots.

Abby Denney set the pace for JCHS (7-3) and recorded the team's lone birdie of the day on the 77-yard, par-3 seventh hole. She added five bogeys to shoot 48.

Yorktown's Kennedy Windlan earned medalist honors with a 39.

Macey Gerber shot 49 for the Patriots with five bogeys. Cara Garringer and Brittany Stevens each parred the seventh hole as they finished at 51 and 56 respectively.

Whitney Gray posted a 58.

JV football rolls

Cade Price had a pair of long touchdown runs to lead the Jay County junior varsity football team to a 28-12 victory Tuesday over the visiting Muncie Southside Rebels.

Price ripped apart the Southside defense with TD runs of 42 and 82 yards. Blake Crouch ran in the 2-point conversion after the second Price TD and then took over with TD passes of 8 and 67 yards to Dakota Steed.

The Patriots intercepted three passes in the game, one each by Jerod Lochtefeld, Ethan Phillips and Kamron Bentz.

WJMS eighth wins

MUNCIE - Chaz McClain and Dan Walter powered the West Jay Middle School eighth grade football team to a 28-6 win Tuesday over Muncie Wilson. The seventh graders lost 12-0.

McClain returned the opening kickoff 70 yards for a TD and later caught a 28-yard scoring pass from Keenan James. Walter racked up 114 yards on just four carries, including an 88-yard TD run.

Sean Winget added a 15-yard TD run, and McClain led the defense with nine tackles.

Bryce Bantz ran for 52 yards on 15 carries for the seventh grade team and also made seven tackles. Hunter Malott completed five passes for 38 yards.[[In-content Ad]]