Tribe tops Jays for first win

DELPHOS, Ohio — The Indians got their first win of the season.

Fort Recovery High School’s girls basketball team led after every quarter Thursday in defeating the host St. John’s Blue Jays 48-39.

It snapped the Indians’ four-game losing streak to start the season. The Tribe is now 1-4 (1-1 Midwest Athletic Conference), while the Blue Jays fall to 0-6 (0-2 MAC).

Mara Pearson scored 14 points to lead the Indians, and Cali Wendel joined her in double figures with 10 points.



Jay tops ’Dogs

Jay County’s girls and junior varsity wrestling team combined to beat the New Haven Bulldogs on Thursday, 60-21.

Lizzie Dollar (106 pounds), Lilly Lothridge (183) and Mallory Winner (160) all picked up first-period pins. Dakota Chowning won her 113-pound match with a pin in the second period.

Earning pins in the first period for the boys were Griffin Byrum (113), Trace Smith (132), Landon Mills-Blowers (152), Vasin Ridgway (160), Juaquin Flores (182) and Tristin Stout (195).

Kaleb Meadows (132) also won for JCHS.



Patriots lose

Jay County Junior High School’s seventh and eighth grade girls basketball teams both lost to the Bluffton Tigers on Thursday.

The seventh graders lost 30-11, and the eighth graders suffered a 28-27 defeat.

Lizzy Brunswick and Natalie May had four points each for the eighth graders. Daila Siefring-Runyon chipped in two points, and Bailey Towell had one point.

Mya Kunkler paced the seventh graders with 11 points, while Alexis Sibray and Lani Muhlenkamp scored six points each. Rinah Cross and Raylah Newton both finished with two points.