Jay baseball picks up first conference win over Woodlan Warriors

WOODBURN — Not much has gone the way of the Patriots in the early part of the season, but as they entered Allen County Athletic Conference play, they finally broke through.

The Jay County High School baseball team scored two key runs in the top of the seventh inning to beat the Woodlan Warriors 6-5 in Thursday’s ACAC opener.

The Patriots (3-6, 1-0 ACAC) developed a 4-0 lead by pushing a pair of runs across in the first and third innings. Woodlan (7-5, 0-1 ACAC) responded in the bottom of the third by putting up a four spot and taking a 1-run lead in the fifth inning.

Down a run in the top of the seventh inning, Carter Fugiett led off with a single and Drew Schemenaur reached base on an error. Kade Sommers drove in the first run with a single to right field and Garrett Bennett followed it up with an infield single to score the winning run.

Aiden Phillips earned the victory after tossing the final two innings and keeping the Warriors off the board and without a hit.

Can’t score

COLDWATER, Ohio — The floodgates opened in the sixth inning as Fort Recovery’s baseball team fell to the Coldwater Cavaliers 9-0 on Thursday.

Coldwater (11-1, 5-0 Midwest Athletic Conference) scored its first two runs in the first inning before pushing seven more across in the sixth inning on four singles, two doubles, a walk and an error.

Caden Grisez suffered the loss as he gave up two earned runs on five walks and one hit over 3 ⅓ innings of work.

The Indians (8-4, 1-3 MAC) had runners in scoring position in five of the seven innings, but failed to come up with a run. Brody Hart led the offense with a double and a single, while Reece Wendel added two singles.

Dirksens dominate

The Jay County Junior High Junior High School tennis team hosted Adams Central, winning 15 of 19 matches against the Jets.

Leading the day with perfect records at 4-0 were Elly Byrum, Claudia Dirksen, Henry Dirksen and Maria Laux.

Also finishing the day with a perfect record at 3-0 were Job Dirksen and Paul Dirksen.

Cadly Henry, Parker McCory and Aubrie Whetzel all finished 3-1 on the day, while Maddie Clark secured three wins and had one match end in a tie.

Ended early

ALBANY — The Jay County Junior High School golf team fell to Delta 196-218 on Thursday at Albany Golf Club.

Only four golfers for each team finished their rounds before lightning ended the match early.

Karson Hines and Murphy Link both shot 52s for the team low. Right behind them was Kayden Hutzler with a 54.

The final score came from Josh Brown, who needed 60 strokes to get through the match.

Walks power

The Portland Red 10-and-younger All Stars softball team beat Blackford 13-0 on Thursday.

Every single batter in Portland’s lineup drew at least one walk and stole a base once in the victory.

Three players collected hits, the biggest coming from Jo LeMaster with a double into right field. Kendall Snow and Emme Theurer also reached base with a single apiece.

Carsyn Guggenbiller handled business in the circle, striking out five batters over five innings. She didn’t give up any runs despite surrendering a walk and two hits.

Offense thrives

The Portland 8-and-younger Allstars softball team took down Selma 17-4 on Thursday.

Hayden Guggenbiller, Ava Lochtefeld, Kinley McLaughlin, and Maddie Theurer led the way for Portland by going 4-for-4 at the plate. Lochtefeld and Theurer scored all four times they reached base.

Maitlynn Castillo andSkye Ingram were also perfect with the bat, finishing 3-for-3.