A little closer

Each of the previous three wins were decided by multiple hundreds of points.

The home team had to put up a bit of a fight against their neighbors to the northwest.

Jay County Summer Swim Team moved to 4-0 on the season by holding off Wells Community for a 637-516 victory Tuesday at Portland Water Park.

This came on the heels of a 603-point win against South Adams and a 556-point triumph over Blackford. Results from Monday’s meet at Union City were not provided.

Elly Byrum and Maria Laux combined to give Jay County a sweep of the 9-and-10-year-old girls races, while three boys teamed to take all the individual races in the same age group.

Byrum was first in the long freestyle, individual medley and short freestyle races, while Laux earned the top spot in the butterfly, backstroke and breaststroke events.

Ben Fisher earned wins in the backstroke, IM and breaststroke races, Finn Hemmelgarn finished first in both the butterfly and short freestyle and Tony Beiswanger won the long freestyle for the Jay County sweep.

Anna Fisher, Mara Bader and Eliza Bader were also triple event winners. Fisher, an 8-and-younger competitor, was first in the IM, breaststroke and short freestyle. Mara Bader beat the field in the 200-yard open freestyle, as well as taking the 15-and-older butterfly and breaststroke. Eliza Bader handled the long freestyle, backstroke and IM races.

Kyle Sanders won the boys’ open 200 freestyle on top of his 15-and-older long freestyle, and Addisyn Champ (8-and-younger) won both the long freestyle and butterfly.

Sawyer Hemmelgarn, Raif Beiswanger, Morgan DeHoff and Matthew Fisher all had individual wins.

Jay County, which hosts Fort Recovery on Thursday, won 11 of the 18 relay races as well.

Ryan Heyerly of Wells Community set a new pool record in the 11-12-year-old boys 50 freestyle. He had a time of 29.16 seconds, erasing Jason Arnold’s time of 29.39 set in 1984.