Sidelines: Both FPC and Matanzas weightlifters place in the Top 20 at state, among other local sports news

Flagler County girl weightlifters place Top 20 at state meet

Matanzas senior Sarah Dillon and FPC’s Taylor Eddy led a large group of Flagler County weightlifters who placed in the Top 20 at the FHSAA Weightlifting Championships on Thursday and Friday, Feb. 3 and 4, at Belleview High School.

The Pirates competed in the 1A finals, while the Bulldogs lifted in 2A.

Matanzas: Dillon placed seventh (310 total weight) in her division; Lorien Givens, 13th (210); Danielle Thompson, seventh (250); Katie Welker, 11th (235); Bianca Secor, 15th (245), Julianna Smith, 20th (255); Chiara Longo 16th (315).

For the Bulldogs, Eddy also placed seventh (310); Tiara Sankar, eighth (245); Eryel Gilyard, 10th (250); Anisa Zwolinski, 12th (310); Jael Jara 13th (300). All of the Bulldogs lifters set new PRs.

Bulldogs wrestling captures another conference title

For the fourth consecutive season, FPC dominated its conference foes to win the Five-Star Conference championship.

FPC finished with 231.50 team points, while the others scored the following: University (157.50). Atlantic (154), DeLand (126.50), New Smyrna (64), Seabreeze (46), Pine Ridge (29) and Deltona (21).

Christian Sheppard, Michael DeAugustino, Avery Holder, Damion Figuoera, Michael Martins, Tyrone Jones, Eddie Bryant and Vincent Ebanks all placed first. Curtis Brock, Keith Boswell and Steve Canidate took runner-up.

DeAugustino also avenged one of his two season losses by defeating Osceola’s Malyke Hines last Thursday in a dual meet.

Up next the Bulldogs will wrestle crosstown rivals Matanzas at 5:30 p.m. on Wednesday, Feb. 8, at Matanzas.

Up for some dodgeball?

The Daytona State College Psychology Club will host a dodgeball tournament at 3 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 9, at the FPC campus.

The charity event will raise money for the Family Life Center. The cost to participate is $2.00 per person or $20.00 for a 10-person team. Grilled food will be available for purchase.

Contact club President Bobi Mason at 568-9925 for more information.

Spring sports to watch this week

As the winter sports come to an end, this week many of the spring sports will go into play. Those will include lacrosse, boys weightlifting, baseball, football, track and field, softball and tennis.

Home spring events from Feb. 9-16

For Matanzas: lacrosse boys play Father Lopez at 7 p.m. Friday, Feb. 10. Matanzas weightlifting will host its preseason classic on Friday and Saturday, beginning at 3 p.m. And Pirates baseball will host Father Lopez at 6 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 14. And, for softball, Matanzas will host a preseason classic on Friday and Saturday.

For FPC, girls softball will participate in the Matanzas preseason class; tennis will host Seabreeze at 3:30 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 14; track and field will host its annual Flagler Pinnacle Class preseason event at 3:30 Friday, Feb. 10; fpc girls host Buchholz at 6 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 9; and boys weightlifting will host Pedro Menendez at 4 p.m. on Thursday;