JC swim finishes second in conference

Three swimmers closed out perfect seasons by winning a trio of events.

Jay County had two more triple-event winners.

It wasn’t enough to take down Southern Well’s depth.

The Jay County Summer Swim Team’s season ended on Saturday as they finished second at the Wabash Valley Conference Championships.

Jay County’s 2,420 points was good enough to be the runner-up, behind Southern Well’s 2,843.5. South Adams was third with 923.

Cora Arnold (8-and-younger), Addisyn Champ (9-10-year-old) and Maria Laux (11-12-year-old) all won a trio of events to finish the year without losing a single event at their respective age levels. 

Arnold and Champ both won the individual medley, long freestyle and short freestyle for their age levels while Laux topped the long freestyle, breaststroke and backstroke.

Elly Byrum also won a trio of events for the 11-12-year-old girls. She was victorious in the short freestyle, butterfly and individual medley.

Mara Bader was the final triple-winner, taking the butterfly, breaststroke and individual medley.

Jay County won nine out of the 20 relays in the championship.

Double event winners were Emme Theurer, Sophie Warvel, Jackson Westgerdes and Raif Beiswanger.

Grady Warvel, Grant Glentzer and Cooper Glentzer all won one event.

Rockets struggle

The Rockets struggled the whole way through the weekend.

From pitchers giving up 19 total runs (16 earned) to the offense failing to give run support, the team struggled.

The Portland Rockets’ struggles led to a doubleheader sweep on Sunday by the first-place Fort Wayne Jackers 7-0, 12-4.

In game one, the Rockets were able to muster up five hits and reach scoring position in two innings, but couldn’t find a way to score a run. 

Singles by Joel Kennedy and Gavin Gleason and a walk from Garrison Brege loaded the bases in the fourth, but a strikeout ended the inning stranding the runners. The Rockets struck out 12 times in the game.

Brege suffered the loss after giving up seven runs on 11 hits. TJ Deherra and Mason Meyer both hit home runs off Brege.

The offense picked up in game two, led by Kennedy with a solo homerun and an RBI-double. 

They finished with four runs total, but it wasn’t enough as Tyler Reynolds and Trevor Sheets gave up a combined 12 runs.

All but two of the Jackers drove in runs, only Deherra remained hitless.