Jay XC tops FR

The Indians had two of the top three runners in each race. But it wasn’t enough to take down the hosts.

The Jay County High School cross country teams both picked up wins in a dual meet with the Fort Recovery Indians Tuesday at Hudson Park. The Patriots finished with 24 points in both races, while the Tribe boys trailed by five with a 31 and the girls finished with 34.

Makenna Huelskamp won the girls race with a time of 21 minutes, 18 seconds and Riley Heitkamp claimed third in 22:20.

Abby Fifer split the two Indians to claim second in 22:09 and five Patriots claimed fourth to eighth place. Scoring for Jay County were Ava May (22:46), Brooklynn Byrum (22:55), Jessie Homan (23:40) and Paityn Wendel (25:05).

The remaining scores for the Fort Recovery girls came from Kendall Rany (26:51), Claire Grube (28:44) and Addie Heitkamp (29:29).

JCHS junior Caleb Garringer won the boys race with a time of 18:26. Two Indians followed as Alex Roessner crossed the finish line in 18:58 and Reese Diller ran a 19:28.

The next three places went to Patriots. They were Grant Glentzer (19:59), Max Klopfenstein (20:37) and Caison Lloyd (20:59). Alex Rivers rounded out the scoring with an eighth-place finish in 22:10.

Russell Hart (22:10) broke up the back to finish seventh for FRHS. The remaining two scores came from Evan Diller (22:11) in ninth and Ben Vogel (22:47) in 10th.

Other runners who didn’t score for Fort Recovery were Addie Heitkamp (29:29), Yoselyn Juarez (30:17), Henry Jutte (23:04), Charlie Stammen (23:05), and Mason Laux (23:12)

Other runners who didn’t score for Jay County were Alyvia Muhlenkamp (31:38), Ethan Powers (23:20), John Cook (24:23) and Isaac Hawbaker (26:55).

Lloyd leads

Jay County’s girls soccer team only needed one goal to take down Allen County Athletic Conference foe South Adams 1-0 on Tuesday.

The Patriots (4-1, 3-0 ACAC) struck early against the Starfires (2-5, 0-2 ACAC) when Aixa Lopez found London Lloyd for the score with 31 minutes, 1 second remaining in the half.

The defensive efforts of Ariel Beiswanger, Emma Hatzell, Tessa Frazee and Raylah Newton on the back line and Maleah Parsons in the goal held South Adams scoreless. Parsons finished the match with 10 saves.

Jay County had nine players combine for 27 shots on the goal, but they couldn’t manage to find the net.

JCHS will play a trio of non-conference games starting with today’s match against Norwell before visiting Berne for a rematch with the Starfires. They also have ACAC games against Southern Wells, Heritage and Woodlan remaining as they sit atop the conference standings.