Jay beat South Adams by 103

BERNE — The Jay County swimmers haven’t had much of a threat of losing a meet throughout the front half of their season.

The Starfish were able to push them more than most, but still fell short by more than100 points.

The Jay County Summer Swim Team beat the South Adams Starfish 599-496 at Berne pool on Thursday.

Jay County claimed 14 out of the 20 relays and won 43 of the 61 individual events to claim the meet. Nine Jay tankers picked up a trio of individual wins, leading to sweeps of the 11-12-year-old girls, 13-14-year-old boys and 15-and-older boys divisions.

Isabell Byrum and Addisyn Champ handled the 11-12-year-old girls division with the former winning the 100-meter freestyle, 50 butterfly and 50 freestyle and the latter claiming the 50 breaststroke, 50 backstroke and 100 individual medley.

Ben Fisher claimed first-place finishes in the 100 freestyle, 50 backstroke and 50 breaststroke, while Grant Glentzer topped the 50 butterfly, 100 individual medley and 50 freestyle to complete the sweep of the 13-14-year-old division.

Cooper Glentzer picked up wins in the 100 freestyle, 100 individual medley and 50 freestyle for the 15-and-older boys while Carson Westgerdes cleaned up with victories in the 50 butterfly, 50 backstroke and 50 breaststroke.

Other triple event winners were Jaley Knapschafer, Sam Benirschke and Brooklynn Byrum. Jay County (4-0) also had seven swimmers win a pair of events and two to claim one.

Fort falls

FORT RECOVERY — The Tribe fell to the Flyers by one run during the regular season. When they met in the postseason, the Indians got on top early but couldn’t keep up.

The fifth-seeded Fort Recovery ACME baseball team got booted to the loser’s bracket on Friday as it fell to the No. 4 seed Marion Local Flyers 7-2.

The host Tribe (5-3) put up an initial run in the top of the first inning on a single by Luke Fortkamp. Marion Local immediately responded with two runs in the bottom of the frame and never relinquished the lead.

The Flyers put up four runs on Dylan Klenke, who suffered the loss in 3 ⅓ innings of work. They tacked on three more runs at the expense of Fortkamp in the sixth to secure the victory.

Fort Recovery’s only other run came in the fifth on an error after Ian McCain hit a ball to shortstop, allowing Reece LeFevre to score.

The Indians will get another chance to move on with a game Monday against the loser of No. 1 Celina and eighth-seeded Parkway.