Jay to play New Castle

The Patriots have already faced off with the Trojans on the road.

They just got word that they’ll have to do it again.

The Jay County High School boys basketball team drew a first round matchup with the host New Castle Trojans in the IHSAA Class 3A Sectional 24 in the first game on Feb. 28.

The Patriots (7-12) previously visited New Castle (10-10) on Dec. 9. The Trojans won the game 56-44 as they barraged Jay County with 14 made 3-point shots.

A win would set up a potential semifinal game against the winner of No. 8 Delta (16-6) and Frankton (14-8) on March 1.

On the other side of the bracket, Yorktown (12-9) has an opening matchup with Centerville (13-10). The victory will face off with Hamilton Heights (9-13) for a chance to play in the championship on March 2.

The Patriots have also played both Delta and Yorktown this season, falling by more than 20 points to both.

FR falls

NEW MADISON, Ohio — The Tri-Village Patriots exploded in the second quarter as part of a 64-41 victory over the Fort Recovery boys basketball team on Saturday.

Fort Recovery (7-14) blanked Tray Sagester in the first quarter to stay within a point at the first break. That didn’t last as Sagester provided eight of the 20 second-quarter points for Tri-Village (20-2).

Sagester also had eight in the third as the Patriots put up 19 to take a 47-27 lead. He finished with a game-high 21 points. Reed Wehr and Tanner Printz reached double figures as well with 12 and 11 respectively.

Breaker Jutte had the most points for the Indians with eight. He had buckets in the second and third, while hitting two free throws in both the third and fourth quarters. After Jutte was Gavin Evers, scoring six points with buckets in the first, second and third periods.

Reece Guggenbiller, Troy Homan and Rex Leverette all finished with five points, while Mason Diller and Gavin Faller hit a pair of shots each. Eli Lennartz also had two points in the final quarter.

Braden Keating of Tri-Village put up three triples to also outscore all of the Indians with nine.

Girls move on

MINSTER, Ohio — The Fort Recovery girls bowling team came up 91 pins short of a Division II sectional championship at Community Lanes on Friday.

St. Marys Memorial earned the sectional championship with 3,572 pins while Fort Recovery (3,481), Coldwater (3,070), and Parkway (2,996) also advanced to the district tournament at Star Lanes in Port Clinton, Ohio.

Ella Schoen put together the best day for the Tribe, finishing as the individual runner-up. Knocking down 200 pins in her second game helped her to a total score of 554, but Memorial’s Chole Gibson matched with 222 pins to total 577, taking the sectional championship.

Brooklyn Wyerick also threw a 200 game as she tied for fifth with Memorial’s Kayla Homan at 536 pins.

Three more Indians finished in the top 20 with Deanna Brown finishing 11th (486), Emily Lauber 16th (478) and Kayla Heitkamp 20th (449).

FRHS won baker play with 988 pins, while Memorial netted 973, but the strong individual play carried the Rough Riders to the sectional championship.

Champ leads

NEW CASTLE — Addisyn Champ finished as the high point winner in the 9-10-year-old girls age group as the Jay County Winter Swim Team competed at the TAC Winter Invite at New Castle Middle School on Sunday.

While Champ claimed the top spot, Carsyn Guggenbiller earned the third-most points in the age group.

Both girls competed on relay teams that captured the only first-place finishes. Champ led the 200-yard medley relay that finished in 2 minutes, 48.72 seconds, by swimming the backstroke. Emme Theurer followed with the breaststroke, before Guggenbiller swam the butterfly and Ellie Wiggins closed with the freestyle.

Champ also led the 200 freestyle relay that finished in 2:30.63. Joining Champ and Guggenbiller were Wiggins and Kynlee Homan.

Jay County had 19 other finishes in the top 5.