Antrim, Saxman lead Jay in defeat

RICHMOND — Seniors Rachel Antrim and Abby Saxman had career-best scores Thursday.
Their efforts weren’t enough as the Jay County High School girls golf team lost to the Richmond Red Devils, 168-205, at Richmond Elks Golf Course.
Antrim beat her career-best by two strokes and was four shots better than her season-low she set Monday at Hickory Hills. Saxman broke 50 for the first time this season and second time in her career. She totaled 49 on Aug. 26, 2014, at Golf Club of the Limberlost.
Fellow seniors Sydney Robbins (55) and Brooke Sanders (56) completed the Patriots’ team score.
Junior Kendra Dodd also competed for Jay County. She finished with a 60.

Tribe tops Jays
CELINA — The Delphos St. John’s Blue Jays had only lost one Midwest Athletic Conference golf match all season.
That number is now two.
Fort Recovery defeated St. John’s by one stroke Thursday, 180-181 at Mercer County Elks.
The Indians moved to 3-2 in conference play, while the Blue Jays fell to 5-2.
Tribe senior Jackson Hobbs shot a 42 to share match medalist honors with Derek Klausing of St. John’s. Hobbs had two of the Indians’ three birdies, recording them on the par-4 first hole and the par-4 eighth.
 Chase Bruns followed Hobbs with a 45, and Nick Litmer finished one stroke behind him with a 46.
Colt Grieshop, the Indians’ No. 4 golfer, completed the team score with a 47.

FR girls win
CELINA — Fort Recovery’s girls golf team earned a pair of wins Thursday.
The Indians shot a 223 to beat both the Parkway Panthers (249) and Coldwater Cavaliers (281).
The victory against Parkway was a Midwest Athletic Conference tilt whereas the match against the Cavaliers was a non-league contest.
Emily Bruns led the Indians with a score of 54, and Tori Vaughn was one shot behind with a 55.
Cori Stone and Elli Keller both shot a 57 to complete the Indians’ team score.
Trisha Thien and Kristen Keller also competed and finished with scores of 58 and 70 respectively.

Star netters win
NEW HAVEN — For the second consecutive match, the Starfire boys tennis team dominated the singles contests.
The Bulldogs didn’t win a game.
South Adams and New Haven split the doubles matches, as the Starfires defeated the host Bulldogs 4-1 on Thursday.
The win puts South Adams at 5-1 on the season.
David Villarroel defeated Lucas Garcia at No. 1 singles, and at No. 2 singles David Muselman beat Jaden Peffley. Dexter Miller disposed of Nick Ammer at No. 3 singles. All three matches had 6-0, 6-0 scores.
South Adams’ No. 1 doubles team of Kam DeLong and Marcus Teeter defeated Trevor Kraner and Adam Smith 6-4, 6-2. At No. 2 doubles. Aiden Bahre and Jamison Kistler won the first set 6-2 but lost the final two and the match, 6-0, 6-4 to New Haven’s James Gardner and Ager Difeder.

Squaws beat Stars
DECATUR — The South Adams volleyball team won the first set against Bellmont on Thursday.
The Class 3A No. 5 Squaws won the final three, defeating the Starfires 23-25, 25-12, 25-19, 25-13.
Madeline Wurster led the Starfires (6-2) with seven kills. She also added five digs.
Morgan Alberson and Kylie Grabau both tallied six kills, with Alberson recording eight digs and Grabau four blocks.
Julia Grabau had a team-high 14 digs and 20 assists. Caralie Farlow totaled eight digs and a pair of kills.
Bellmont swept the South Adams junior varsity team, 25-17, 25-17. Jade Farlow had six kills and two blocks, and Sydney Pierce tallied three kills to go with her five digs.

Thobe leads Tribe
St. HENRY, Ohio — Gavin Thobe scored three touchdowns as the Fort Recovery Middle School seventh grade football team defeated the St. Henry Redskins 30-14.
The eighth grade Indians tied the Redskins, 20-20.
Thobe had scores of 10, 50 and 40 yards for the Tribe seventh graders (1-0). Clay Schmitz also scored a touchdown on a blocked punt.
For the eighth graders, Jason Siefring, Riley Pearson and Mitchell Pugh all had rushing touchdowns.