Patriots draw Rebels

ALEXANDRIA — The Patriots now know their sectional opponents and it's the one team they have yet to play.

The ISHAA announced the girls tennis sectional matchups on Monday evening and the Jay County High School girls tennis team drew the Randolph Southern Rebels in the Sectional 53 hosted by Jay County.

The Patriots (7-6) and Rebels will square off today at 5 p.m. on one court as the Winchester Falcons take on the Union City Indians in the other semifinal.

JCHS previously beat Winchester and Union City 4-1 in both matchups. The match against Randolph Southern on May 7 got canceled due to weather concerns.

The championship match will take place at 5 p.m. on Thursday.

Jay County also fell to the Alexandria-Monroe Tigers 3-2 in the regular season finale.

Brenna Bailey and Maggie Dillon dominated the No. 2 and 3 singles matches for JCHS. Dillon swept her opponent, while Bailey only surrendered one game for a 6-1, 6-0 victory.

Zion Beiswanger and Lucie Henneaux forced a third set, but ultimately fell in the No. 2 doubles contest 6-2, 2-6, 6-1.

Meredith Dirksen and Sophia Sprunger also dropped their No. 1 doubles match 6-1, 6-4.

Brenna Hanies fell as the only singles player to not secure a win. She slipped up 7-5, 6-3 in the No. 1 singles contest.

All-MAC announced

Four members of the Fort Recovery softball team received all Midwest Athletic Conference honors on Monday.

The Indians (12-12) had one representative on the First Team All-MAC that ended up being 17 players deep. Emma Will received the spot after leading FRHS in batting average (.382), on base percentage (.411), hits (34), runs (34) and triples (2).

Both Jenna Homan and Ella Schoen got named to the second team. They followed Will in batting average, sporting .381 and .375, respectively. They both led FRHS with eight doubles and  Homan filled the role of the Indians’ primary pitcher, eating up 109 innings with a 4.37 ERA.

Ava Grisez was listed as an honorable mention. The junior earned the fourth-best batting average of .345  while leading the Indians with three home runs and 22 RBIs.

Shimp doubles

MONROEVILLE — A two-out double by Jozey Shimp propelled the Jay County softball team to a 3-2 victory on Monday against the Heritage Patriots.

JCHS got its first run in the second inning off of a sacrifice fly by Carley Trinidad.

The first two Jay County (13-4, 4-2 Allen County Athletic Conference) batters struck out to begin the third. Following up the outs, Riah Champ and Jaelynn Lykins reached base on a walk and a single, respectively.

With two outs, Shimp watched the first two pitches before blasting a double to right field to get the runs home.

Heritage (8-8, 3-2 ACAC) answered with two runs in the bottom of the third, but they couldn’t tie the game up over the final four frames. Runs scored on a Danica Fuller double and an Abriyah James single.

Mallory Winner held on for Jay County in the circle. She went the distance, striking out four batters without issuing a walk. She gave up two runs on nine hits.

Tribe dominates

FORT RECOVERY — The Fort Recovery baseball team dominated the Spencerville Bearcats 11-1 in an added game Monday.

The Indians (9-11) didn’t get their offense going right away, but rattled off five runs in the fourth inning to take a commanding 6-0 lead. They tacked on three more in the fifth and two in the sixth to end the game early by the mercy rule.

Riggs Tobe had the strongest day at the plate with three RBIs, two runs, two hits and two walks. He also walked off the game against the Bearcats (3-19) with a bases loaded walk.

Spencerville’s only run came in the top of the fifth inning on a single by Cooper Chapman.

Reece Evers secured the win by tossing five innings for Fort Recovery, while striking out seven Bearcats. He surrendered six hits and one walk, while only allowing one run.

Hines leads

MUNCIE — The Jay County Junior High golf team edged past Daleville 238-240 in the first nine-hole match it played this year on Monday at Crestview Golf Club.

Karson Hines led the Patriots with 42 strokes. He only parred the first hole, but shot bogeys on the third, fourth, sixth and eighth holes.

Camden Buckland wasn’t far behind with a score of 48. Buckland shot par twice in the match on holes No. 2 and 9.

Tying for the third best score, Tobe Swartzentruber and Bailey Towel both had 48s.

Because Daleville calculated all five scores to come to the team score, Crystal Swartzentruber’s 55 strokes came into play for the Patriots’ victory.