Jay girls swim returns by beating Braves

DECATUR — The Patriot girls came out of the break looking as strong as ever.

The boys had a solid showing too, but didn’t have the depth for the win.

The Jay County High School girls swim team demolished the Bellmont Braves 132-46, while the boys fell 92-87.

The Patriot girls (6-1) nearly swept the meet, as they won every event other than the 1-meter diving. The boys (3-4) claimed eight of the 12 events, but only had four runners-up and two third-place finishes.

Maria Laux and Elly Byrum led the girls side with two wins apiece, while Carson Westgerdes and Cooper Glentzer each claimed two events.

Laux topped the 200-yard individual medley in 2 minutes, 39.67 seconds and the 500 freestyle in 6:30.89. Elly Bryrum’s wins came in the 50 freestyle (27.01) and 100 breaststroke (1:21.10).

Westgerdes matched Laux with wins in the 200 IM (2:15.55) and 500 freestyle (5:41.75). Glentzer’s time of 58.16 seconds won the 100 butterfly, while he claimed the 100 backstroke in 1:01.94.

Other individual wins for the girls came from Brooklynn Byrum (200 freestyle), Lauren Fisher (100 butterfly), Sophia Hoevel (100 freestyle) and Avery Wentz (100 backstroke). Grady Warvel claimed the 200 freestyle for the boys, while Peyton Yowell claimed the 50 freestyle.

The Patriot girls won all three relays. The JCHS boys claimed the 200 medley relay and the 400 freestyle relay.

Three wins each

BERNE — Fort Recovery’s swim teams battled with South Adams and Minster on Tuesday night.

The girls and boys each had a trio of first-place finishes.

Theresa Hipple started the meet right for Tribe girls with a win in the 1-meter diving. Autumn Luethold had the other individual victory in the 100-yard breaststroke.

Luethold, Claire Wenning, Aubrey Shuttleworth and Liza Knapke combined to win the 200 freestyle relay as well.

The victories for the boys came from Carson Fullenkamp and Caleb Smith. Fullenkamp won both the 200 individual medley and 100 butterfly. Smith placed first in the 50 freestyle. While he only finished second in the 100 breaststroke, he broke his school record for the third time this season with a swim of 1 minute, 7.39 seconds.

Pats fall

COLDWATER, Ohio — The Jay County boys wrestling team dropped a close match to the Coldwater Cavaliers on Tuesday 30-25.

The Patriots (11-5) did well in the lower weight classes as they claimed wins in the 113, 120, 126 and 138-pound matches.

Jason Landers ran off 16 points to get a tech fall on Cameron Bradley 3 minutes, 6 seconds into the 138 contest. Corbin Lothridge and Alexander Rivers both earned major decisions with the former beating T.J. Gross 12-0 in the 113-pound match and the latter topping Brent Heuing 12-3 in the 126 contest.

The only other JCHS victory came from Bryan Fields in the 175 match. He needed just 41 seconds to pin Coldwater’s Landon Garcia.

Jay County lost the other four matches via fall to end up with the loss.

Eighth grade wins

YORKTOWN — Jay County Junior High School’s boys basketball teams split with the Yorktown Tigers on Tuesday with the eighth graders winning 44-37 and the seventh graders losing 48-16.

Abram Lee and Bentley Comer led the eighth grade team with 16 and 15 points, respectively. Finn Hemmelgarn and Job Dirksen followed up with five points apiece. Jaylen Brown scored the final three for Jay County as it moved to 11-0 on the season.

Benson Collins had the team-high for the seventh graders with five points. Ethan Paxson, Cruz Darby and Nicholas Pintos-Penrod all had three points and Maverick McGill found the hoop for two.

Jay splits

The Jay County Junior High School girls basketball teams picked up one win and one loss against the Yorktown Tigers on Tuesday.

The eighth grade team fell 31-29 with Arabella Link scoring 10 points. Following Link were Boo Towell, Kinze Homan and Brenna Weitzel with seven, six and five points, respectively. Emmi Clark also hit a free throw.

The seventh graders pulled out a 25-6 victory against the Tigers. Gretchen Petro led the way with eight points, while Haley Comer had seven. Kendall Farr and Alyssa Schwieterman both had three points, while Makenna Wellman and Brooklyn McGill each found the basket once for two apiece.