Jay Co. tankers defeat Braves

DECATUR — The Patriot girls took the top three spots in the 100-yard freestyle.

The boys went one-two in four individual events.

Stacking swimmers at the top of the results powered the Jay County Junior High School swim teams to victories Monday over the host Bellmont Braves by scores of 109-61 for the girls and 96-77 for the boys.

Brooklynn Byrum led the 100 freestyle effort for the Patriots while Elly Byrum was the lone double winner. The former finished in 1:09.19 ahead of teammates Ariel Beiswanger and Gabby Gibson while the latter had winning times of 2:28.16 in the 200 freestyle and 1:30.52 in the 100 breaststroke.

Grady Warvel led two of the one-two efforts for the boys team, finishing ahead of Jaxson DeHoff in the 100 individual medley in 1:22.76 and Benjamin Fisher in the 100 breaststroke in 1:34.03. Raif Beiswanger and Cooper Glentzer took the top two places in the 50 butterfly with the former winning in 31.22 while Carson Westerdes won the 200 freestyle in 2:16.46 ahead of teammate Rockland Beiswanger.

Kaitlyn Fisher and Maria Laux went one-two in the 50 butterfly for the girls team, with Fisher winning by 0.23 seconds in 33.32.

Laux won the 100 IM in 1:15.04.

Other individual victories for the Patriot boys came from Rockland Beiswanger with a time of 5:12.59 in the 400 freestyle and Glentzer in 1:09.26 in the 100 backstroke.

Laux, Fisher and the Byrums teamed to take the girls 200 freestyle relay in 2:00.86 and 300 freestyle relay in 3:17.23. Ariel Beiswanger, Alyvia Muhlenkamp, Kali Wendel and Lila Wendel had a time of 2:35 flat to take the top spot in the 200 medley relay.

Glentzer, Westgerdes and the Beiswangers were first in the boys 300 freestyle relay in 3:04.34.