Jay draws the Bulldogs

The sectional draw did the Patriots no favors.

Their opening tournament game will be against the only team they have lost to this season.

The Jay County High School softball team drew an opening-round game against the Centerville Bulldogs for the Class 3A Sectional 24 Tournament at Delta in the IHSAA tournament draw Sunday.

The IHSAA also held the tournament draw for baseball with JCHS opening the sectional tournament against New Castle, and the OHSAA seeding for softball resulted in Fort Recovery getting an opening-round game against Paulding.

Jay County is having one of its best softball seasons in the history of its program, currently sitting at 13-1. That lone loss came by a 10-8 score April 15 to Centerville.

The Patriots will play Centerville (4-5) in the second of two opening-round games in the Delta tournament. (Sectionals run from May 22 through 27.)

The host Delta Eagles (1-12) will face Mississinewa (7-4) in the other opening-round game. The winner will face New Castle (3-9) in the semifinal round.

The Centerville/Jay County winner will take on No. 7 Yorktown in the semifinal round. The Tigers (10-3) are the reigning sectional champions.



JC baseball

Jay County’s baseball team avoided having to play in the opening round of the Class 3A Sectional 24 at Yorktown, instead drawing the reigning sectional and regional champions New Castle Trojans in the sectional semifinal. (The tournament runs May 24 through May 29.)

Delta and Centerville, the Class 2A state runner-up a year ago, will face off in the opening game of the tournament, with the winner taking on host Yorktown.



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Fort Recovery’s softball team got the No. 7 seed in the Division III Northwest Lima Bath District. The Indians will host ninth-seeded Paulding at 5 p.m. May 9 in the opening round of the sectional. The winner will travel to take on 2022 district champion Van Buren, the No. 2 seed, on May 12 for the sectional title.

The rest of the district tournament features No. 1 Sherwood Fairview, which opted for an opening-round game in which it will take on 11th-seeded Ottawa-Glandorf. Coldwater is the No. 3 seed and will play the winning of an opening-round game between No. 5 seed Bluffton and No. 6 seed Allen East in the sectional championship. The other sectional title game will pit fourth-seeded Wayne Trace against No. 8 seed Jefferson (Delphos).