Four Patriots receive callbacks to regional

The Patriots already had eight qualifiers for the regional meet by finishing in the top three. Now they have word that they will get to compete in four more events as well.

The Jay County High School girls track team got callbacks in four events based off the results from Tuesday's IHSAA Sectional 12 hosted by Delta.

After finishing fourth with a time of 10 minutes, 31.62 seconds, the 4x800-meter relay team of Paityn Wendel, Jessie Homan, Ava May and Brooklynn Byrum received a callback to compete at the Regional 3 hosted by Carroll on May 27. The relay team is seeded 12th in the event.

Another fourth-place finisher, Maria Hemmelgarn, will compete in the regional as well after having one of the top four marks among non-qualifying athletes in the pole vault. Her height of 8 feet that she achieved on the first attempt has her tied for the 15th seed.

Jordyn Hutzler finished fifth in the discus with a throw of 95 feet even, but received a callback as well. She was the final athlete to make the field, leaving her as the 16th seed.

Despite finishing seventh in the long jump at the sectional, Peyton Carpenter received a callback as all four of the extra spots went to competitors from the Delta sectional. Her distance of 15 feet, 9 inches, is seeded 12th in the field.

Tribe wins

FORT RECOVERY — Fort Recovery’s baseball team scored four runs in the sixth inning to lift it to a 5-1 victory over Fort Loramie on Thursday.

Brodie Hart tied the game at 1-1 in the bottom of the fifth as his single brought Caden Grisez home.

The first two Indians of the sixth inning were outs before Colson Post drew a walk. Reece Wendel followed with a home run to left field, giving Fort Recovery (15-8) a 3-1 lead. A pair of errors by Fort Loramie (12-10) gave Alex Gaerke the opportunity to drive two more runs in on a double to center field.

Grisez got the win for the Tribe after throwing three innings. He gave up one hit and one walk, while not allowing any runs to score. Gaerke started the game off for FRHS, striking out seven batters over four innings.

DeHoff leads

NEW HAVEN — Cody DeHoff led the effort of the Jay County boys golf team as it took down the Woodlan Warriors 167-175 on Thursday at Whispering Creek Golf Club.

DeHoff posted the low score for the Patriots (8-4, 3-1 Allen County Athletic Conference) 41 strokes.

A trio of JCHS golfers carded 42s to round out the team score. Griffin Byrum, Dawson Goldsworthy and Isaac Homan all shot just one stroke worse than DeHoff.

Tucker Griffin finished with a 45 on the day, which didn’t play into the team’s final score.

Winters leads

Cook’s Nursery and Patriot Auto both won their Portland Junior League Rookie baseball games on Thursday.

Daylan Winters led Patriot Auto with an inside-the-park home run and a double in the 8-2 victory over POET.

Rickey Heitkamp followed with two doubles, while Kylo Cooke smacked a double and a single.

Kayden Alberson, Waylon Huelskamp and Steven Robbins led Cook’s past Barnetts Auto Parts with three hits apiece.