Jay finishes strong against South Adams

The Patriots closed out the season in dominance.

The Jay County Junior High School swim teams had no trouble against the South Adams Starfires on Tuesday as the girls won 154-93 and the boys claimed a 136-61 victory.

Maria Laux, Gabby Gibson and Elly Bryum all were dual-event winners for the Patriot girls.

Gibson got the individual wins started for Jay County with a first-place finish in the 200-yard freestyle before claiming the 100 backstroke later in the meet.

Laux breezed through the 100 individual medley and the 400 freestyle for a pair of wins.

Elly Bryum’s victories came in the 50 butterfly and the 100 breaststroke.

    Jay County Junior High School’s Isabelle Byrum swims the butterfly leg of the 200-yard medley relay during Tuesday’s meet against South Adams. The Patriots claimed all but two events to pull out a 154-93 victory to close the season. (The Commercial Review/Andrew Balko)

Other individual victories for the girls came from Kali Wendel in the 50 freestyle and Isabelle Byrum in the 100 freestyle.

The boys matched the girls with three dual-event winners. Ben Fischer secured wins for Jay in the 100 individual medley and the 100 freestyle. Grant Glentzer mirrored Gibson with wins in the 200 freestyle and 100 backstroke. Grady Warvel was the third Patriot to win two events, claiming the 400 freestyle and 100 breaststroke.

The only other individual win came from Lyle Beiswanger in the 50 butterfly.

Both teams won two relays as well. Both finished first in the 200 medley relay, while the girls came out on top in the 300 freestyle relay and the boys performed better in the 200 freestyle relay.