Patriot boys shutout Peru

PERU — The Patriots didn’t start the season the way they wanted as a draw kept them out of the win column.

They didn’t have to wait any longer as they broke that barrier in game No. 2.

The Jay County High School boys soccer team picked up its first win of the season Saturday by beating the Peru Tigers 3-0.

It only took two minutes for either team to find the net, as Jay County (1-0-1) struck first when Raif Beiswanger found Elias Mueller for his third goal of the season. The Patriots put up a second score on Peru (2-1) Jacoby Penrod assisted Rockland Beiswanger with 12 minutes until half time.

Mueller scored the third goal in the second half by crashing the net on an initial shot.

The JCHS midfield and defense kept the ball from getting too close to the goal. Peyton Yowell only needed to record four saves to secure the shutout.

Huelskamp leads

WEST MILTON, Ohio — Fort Recovery’s cross country teams competed in the Bob Schul Invitational over the weekend, with the girls placing 15th out of 22 teams with 380 points and the boys claiming 16th of 26 with a 421.

(Summit Country Day won the girls race with 68 points, while Versailles snagged the top spot in the boys race with 28.)

Makenna Huelskamp had the best finish of the day as her time of 21 minutes, 20.6 seconds had her cross the line in 14th place. Riley Heitkamp came in next for the girls at 42nd in 22:37.6.

Other scores for the girls came from Madison Heitkamp (100th, 24:32.9), Kendall Ranly (160th, 26:45.1) and Claire Grube (179th, 27:54.2).

Alex Roessner and Reese Diller both finished in the top 100 for the boys. Roessner ran a career-best 17:52.4 to place 24th, while Diller’s 71st-place finish came in 18:53.2.

Other scores for the boys came from Gavin Heitkamp (123rd, 19:50.3), Russell Hart (128th, 19:54.8) and Evan Diller (173rd, 20:56.2).

Tribe is fourth

The Fort Recovery junior varsity boys golf team finished fourth at the Midwest Athletic Conference meet at Portland Golf Club Saturday.

The Tribe shot a 204 for the fourth-place finish, while Minster topped the field with a score of 181.

Carson Fullenkamp led Fort Recovery with a 45, just five strokes behind MAC champion Cole McClung of Minster.

Kolton Thompson followed with a 51 and Kale Diller trailed with a 53. Will Faller and Owen Grieshop both shot 55s to round out the team score.

Will Westgerdes’ 56 strokes did not impact the team final.

Three perfect

Three players from the Jay County Junior High School tennis team finished the day perfect as the Patriots hosted Winchester and Hagerstown on Saturday.

Finn Hemmelgarn led the way winning four matches for Jay County. Tuck Hemmelgarn was also perfect, going 3-0, while Job Dirksen won both matches he played in.

Grace Huelskamp and Ellie Wiggins both matched Dirksen with two wins, but dropped a match.

Veronica Dirksen, Bentley Brunswick, Sawyer Hemmelgarn, Zayden Jester and Haruki Kato both went 1-2 on the day, while Lydia Hoevel dropped all three of her matches.