Undefeated Kenney, Culy win titles (01/21/08)

ANDERSON - Casey Kenney kept his hot streak going. But so did the Scots.

Kenney and Caleb Culy each won Olympic Athletic Conference championships for the Jay County High School wrestling team, but the host Anderson Highland Scots took the team title Saturday.

The Patriots topped Muncie Southside 45-21 in their first match of the day, but followed with losses of 41-32 to Connersville and 42-24 to the Scots. Highland won seven of the 14 individual crowns, and went undefeated by topping Connersville 45-25 and Southside 61-18.

Kenney (103), who is ranked fifth in the state, won the match of the day 2-1 over No. 3 Jacob Armantrout of Muncie Southside. The junior added wins over Chase Woodall of Connersville and Alex Warner from Highland to improve to 35-0 on the season.

Culy turned in the only other perfect effort for JCHS, topping T.J. Scott of Highland, Connersville's Caleb Holman, and Ricky Lamb of Southside to win the 130-pound title. Ben Theurer (135), Skylar Finnerty (145), Brad Tipton (171) and Kyle Blowers (285) all turned in second-place efforts.

Stars lose 9th straight

BERNE - The South Adams girls basketball team couldn't overcome the Woodlan Warriors' one-two punch. Danae Lengacher and Hannah Koeneman combined to 40 points and 20 rebounds in leading Woodlan to a 53-43 win over the host Starfires.

South Adams (3-12, 0-6 Allen County Athletic Conference) got outscored 16-7 in the second quarter to fall behind by 12 points at halftime on the way to their ninth straight loss. It has not won a game since November.

Lengacher led Woodlan (5-10, 2-4 ACAC) with 25 points, eight rebounds, three assists and three steals, and Koeneman had 15 points and 12 boards.

Ashton Morgan paced the Starfires with 17 points, six rebounds and four steals. Andrea Moser had 15 points, Jordan Lehman grabbed six boards and Anne Lehman finished with three assists.

Katrina Hawkins scored eight points as SAHS dropped the junior varsity game 52-24.

SA splits with Barons

BERNE - South Adams' swim teams just missed a sweep Saturday as the girls swim team defeated the DeKalb Barons 104-60, but the boys fell 86-84.

Jessica Sharp was in on all three wins for the girls team, which topped DeKalb by taking a majority of the second-, third- and fourth-place points. She won the 200-yard freestyle by one hundredth of a second in 2-minutes, 11.58 seconds, the 500 freestyle in 5:59.42 and teamed with Allison Beitler, Lauren Rich and Jansen Yoder to take the 200 freestyle relay in 1:51.58.

Justin Klopp won the 50 freestyle and 100 butterfly for the boys team, and Caleb Wurster took the 2090 individual medley and the 500 freestyle. Alex Habegger (100 breaststroke), John Gresla (200 freestyle) and Justin Sommer (100 freestyle) also added victories.

FR freshmen win 1st

FORT RECOVERY - The Fort Recovery freshman boys basketball team dominated the second half to earn its first win of the season Saturday, 33-29 over the Botkins Trojans.

The Indians (1-7) trailed 22-15 at halftime, but held Botkins to seven second-half points. They pulled within one after three quarters, and outscored the Trojans 9-4 in the fourth for the victory.

Shane Brunswick carried the Tribe as he scored 21 points. Ryan Link added eight.

Eagle 8th splits

DUNKIRK - West Jay Middle School's eighth grade girls basketball team narrowly missed a shot at winning its invitational Saturday, losing 21-20 to Montpelier before defeating Wes-Del 34-23.

The Eagles (3-11) trailed by a point at halftime against Wes-Del, but dominated the second half 20-8 to earn the victory. Megan Sawyer led WJMS with nine points, and Megan Roush was right behind her with eight.

West Jay allowed just two points in the fourth quarter against Montpelier, but its rally attempt fell just short. Shelby Shirk had 10 points in the defeat, and Roush finished with five.

Tankers take third twice

The Jay County Winter Swim team posted a pair of third-place efforts this weekend at the Off the Block Invitational hosted by Oak Hill Saturday and Sunday's Ball State Sprint Invitational.

Jay County took seven of the 14 high-point trophies at Oak Hill. Eliza Bader earned the honor in the 7-and-younger girls division along with Alex Bader (8-year-old girls), Sidney Sprunger (9-year-old girls), Sok Vormohr (9-year-old boys), Anne Vormohr (10-year-old girls), Katy Smeltzer (11-year-old girls) and Caitlin Mark (12-year-old girls).

At Sunday's meet Jay County qualified two 9-10-year old girls medley relay teams for the state meet in March. Members of the qualifying teams were Alex Bader, Sophie Bader, Ellie Kaverman, Ashley Mark, Sidney Sprunger, Carley Stone, Cori Stone and Anne Vormohr.[[In-content Ad]]