Girls soccer net first victory

The Patriots have stumbled coming out of the gate.

But anyone at their game Tuesday would have thought they were in midseason form.

The Jay County High School girls soccer team broke through for its first win of the season as they demolished the South Adams Starfires 7-1.

The Patriots (1-3, 1-3 Allen County Athletic Conference) got off to a quick start scoring four goals in the first half, all of which were assisted. Leading the scoring was junior Morgan DeHoff with two goals. She was 2-for-4 in the half on shots on goal.

Both Molly Muhlenkamp and Finley Hatzell netted their only shots of the half to give the Patriots a 4-0 lead. Muhlenkamp also had an assist, while Aixa Lopez had two and Jenna Dues added one.

Lopez scored twice for the Patriots in the second half. Jayla Huelskamp also found the scoring column, while DeHoff posted the only assist of the half. 

South Adams (1-3-1, 0-1 ACAC) scored the only one goal in the game. JCHS goalie Angel Clairday sent back all three of the Starfires shots in the first half, while South Adams failed to take a shot at the goal outside of the score in the second.

Lopez shouldered a lot of the defensive effort, swiping the ball away 21 times.

Junior high sweeps

MUNCIE — The Jay County junior high volleyball team completed a two-set sweep of Northside Middle School on Tuesday, 25-10, 25-19.

Amelia Heath led the Patriots with seven kills in the match. She also had four service points, three of which were aces.

Kenady Lyons found herself checking off multiple parts of the stat sheet. She had two kills, three assists and two aces.

Brenna Ruble tied Heath for a team-high three aces.

Gabi Petro led the defensive effort with three digs while also dishing out one assist.

Avery Lykins led Jay County with nine service points.