Jay wrestlers suffer first loss

The Patriots saw a lot of action over the weekend, but they always come victorious.

They finally met their match on Tuesday.

The Class 2A No. 1 Jay County High School boys wrestling team lost its first match of the season to the No. 3 Delta Eagles 48-29 on Tuesday as part of a tri-meet. The Patriots topped Yorktown 38-24 before the loss.

Jay County (7-1) controlled the middle weight classes while Delta (6-2) owned the majority of the lighter and heavier matches. The Patriots took the 138-pound to the 157-pound weight classes, including a forfeit in the 150. The other three matches were won on pins by Tony Wood over Jackson Teal (48 seconds), Taye Curtis over Zeke Witter (3 minutes, 32 seconds) and Jacob Robinson over Jacob Snodgrass (1:45).

The only other points came from Bryce Wenk in the 215 match, pinning T.D. Wine 1:24 in.

Jay County won 8-of-14 matches against Yorktown (6-7), but the Patriots won two more matches by falls and one by a technical fall to add some padding to their victory.

The Patriots got wins from Griffin Byrum (113), Cody Rowels (132), Wood, Clark, Robinson, Leighton Brown (175), Wenk and Connor Specht (285) against the Tigers.

Tankers fall

The Jay County girls swim team lost their first meet of the season 188-111 against Oak Hill on Tuesday, while the boys fell 213-72.

After a strong start to the season for the Patriots (2-1), the girls only had four individual winners against the Golden Eagles. Those victories came from Avery Wentz in the 100-yard backstroke (1 minute, 15.56 seconds), Maddy Snow in the breaststroke (1:23.71), the 200 medley team of Kenzie Huey, Snow, Lauren Fisher and Sophia Hoevel (2:10.92) and the 200 freestyle team of Wentz, Aubrey Millspaugh, Hoevel and Fisher (1:57.41).

Joseph Dow had the lone victory for the boys (0-3)  in the 100 freestyle. His time of 1:00.07 was just over four seconds faster than Josh Morgan’s of Oak Hill.

Both teams had four second-place finishes.

Schwieterman leads

ELWOOD — The Jay County Junior High girls basketball teams swept the Elwood Panthers on Tuesday.

Karsyn Schwieterman dominated, scoring 21 points as the seventh grade team won 59-3 to remain undefeated.

The Patriots (8-0) also got solid games from Charlee Peters with 12 points and Kendall Schemenaur with 10. Claudia Dirksen finished just outside of double-digits with eight, while both Alivya Schwieterman and Avery Snow had four apiece.

Seven players scored for the eighth grade team in its 43-9 win.

Raylin Hummer led the way with 11 points. Natalie May and Gabi Petro both put up eight points, while Elizabeth Brunswick was right behind them with six.

Amara Crawford and Amelia Heath both had four and rounding out the Patriots (7-1) total score was Kylie Shannon with two.