Patriots end regular season with a sweep

The boys haven’t had the opportunity to celebrate too many wins this season.

Victories in over half of the events led to the Patriots getting to celebrate one final time in the regular-season finale.

The Jay County High School boys swim team took 7-of-12 events to squash the Marion Giants 156-107 on Tuesday, while the girls team cruised to a 189-82 beating.

Matthew Fisher and David Keen won all four of their events. Fisher took care of the 200-yard individual medley with a time of 2 minutes, 44.15 seconds and the 100 backstroke in 1:09.2.

Keed swam unopposed in the 100 butterfly (1:10.93), but a time of 2:19.11 earned him the top spot in the 200 freestyle.

Fisher and Keen were both on the 200 individual medley relay along with Lincoln Clamme and Joseph Dow.

Other first-place finishes for the boys came from Brasen Glassford in the 1-meter diving and the 400 freestyle relay team of Hugo Gutierrez, Max Klopfenstien, Kamdyn Carter and Keen.

The girls came out on top of 10 events, including all three relays.

Sweeping their events were Aubrey Millspaugh (200 IM, 100 backstroke) and Lauren Fisher (50 freestyle, 100 breaststroke). The other three victories came from Morgan DeHoff (100 butterfly), Kenzie Huey (100 freestyle) and Maddy Snow (diving).

Two lead Patriots

Elizabeth Brunswick and Raylin Hummer led the way for the Jay County eighth grade basketball team as it swamped the Adams Central Jets in the second round of the Allen County Athletic Conference tournament on Thursday 41-24.

They each scored a team-high 11 points in the win for the Patriots (15-1). Natalie May and Stella Skirvin each added seven points to aid Brunswick and Hummer’s scoring efforts.

Amara Crawford and Gabi Petro rounded out the scoring for Jay County with one point each.

The win earns the Patriots the opportunity to play in the ACAC tournament championship today at Southern Wells.

Jay finishes strong

MONROE — The Jay County eighth grade boys basketball team pulled away from the Adams Central Jets in the fourth quarter for a 39-30 win Thursday in the Allen County Athletic Conference tournament semifinal.

Jay County (16-4) only held a 2-point lead or less at the end of the first three quarters, before scoring the Jets 14-6 in the final period.

Nick Snow led the scoring effort with 12 points. Four players added multiple baskets for Jay County, those being Cohen Shimp (eight points), Tyler Wasson (seven), Raif Beiswanger (six) and Kadyn Carpenter (four). Brayden O’Brien hit one bucket.

Jay County will travel to Southern Wells to play in the championship game this morning.