Seniors pull out ACAC win

The Patriots’ hopes for an Allen County Conference Championship are still alive.

The Jay County High School boys tennis team kept their hopes alive with a 4-1 victory over the Adams Central Jets during senior night on Tuesday.

The win means if Jay County takes care of business against South Adams and someone else can upset Bluffton, they can still walk away as co-champions.

The No. 2 singles and No. 1 doubles positions had the easiest times. Eli Dirksen only lost one game to Ethan Gentis 6-1, 6-0. Tyler Ausland and Krew Clark only got one extra game against Sam Myers and Gage Sims in a 6-0, 6-2 victory.

Isaac Miller and Luke Muhlenkmap also only lost two games in the No. 2 doubles match for the Patriots (7-8, 1-1 ACAC). They took down Chris Espinosa and Mason Fruechte 6-1, 6-1.

Abraham Dirksen was able to get past Ean Brown in the No. 1 singles match 6-3, 7-5.

Liam Garringer suffered the only loss for Jay County. He lost to his No. 3 singles opponent, Logan Heiman, 6-1, 6-2.

The junior varsity team fell 3-2. They got wins from Gabe Pinkterton and Jacob Monroe.

Defense stifles

The Jay County boys soccer team picked up a win as they blanked the Richmond Red Devils for a 2-0 victory Tuesday.

There were 12 shots taken at the goals in the match, seven by the Patriots (3-2-2, 1-1 ACAC) and five from Richmond (4-5-1).

Dylan Marentes broke open the scoring with a goal at the 10:22 minute mark of the first half.

He would spark another goal later in the half as he connected for an assist to Levi Muhlenkamp with only 58 seconds left in the half.

Kaleb Coppock sent back all five shots that the Red Devils took at the goal.

The other five shot attempts came from Muhlenkamp (two), Hugo Gutierrez, Alan Ortiz and Emmitt Reynolds.

Snow medals

For the fifth time this season, Maddy Snow was the match medalist as Jay County’s girls golf team hosted the Southern Wells Raiders to close the regular season Tuesday at Portland Golf Club.

The Patriots, who will compete in the sectional Saturday at Crestview Golf Club, only had three golfers in the match, not qualifying for a team score.

Snow finished her round with 44 strokes. She parred twice in the match on the 284-yard, par-4 third hole and the 119-yard, par-3 eighth.

She had five bogeys as well on holes No. 2, 4, 5, 6 and 9.

Southern Well’s Coby Beavans had the best score for the Raiders, shooting a 46. The Raiders finished with a team score of 218.

Brooklynn Bright had the second-lowest score for Jay County. The sole bogey from her round came on the third hole. She finished with a 61.

Whitney McIntire was the other golfer to participate for the Patriots. She finished with 68 strokes.

Junior varsity wins

The Fort Recovery junior varsity girls golf team found itself a 208-227 win against St. Henry on Tuesday.

Evvian Briner of the Indians earned match medalist honors as she shot a 49. 

St. Henry’s low score came from Haley Lange, who shot a 51.

Also shooting a 51 was Fort Recovery sophomore Mallory Evers.

Rounding out the Indians’ team score were Georgia Wenning with a 53 and Ella Westgerdes with a 55.

Rylee Bubp’s score of 56 strokes did not qualify for the team score.

St. Henry’s other scores came from Kiva Molder (54), Sophie Gerlach (61) and Eva Schmitz (61).