SIDELINES

SIDELINES: Flagler Palm Coast baseball team falls 1-0 in regional quarterfinal

Also: Seth, Cerace place at middle school track championships; Marker 14 Sculling brings home medals; FPC basketball, Matanzas soccer camps on tap.


FPC's Kevin Maya pitches against Spruce Creek in a game last season. The senior allowed one run in a 1-0 loss to Timber Creek in a Region 1-7A quarterfinal on May 7. File photo by Brent Woronoff
FPC's Kevin Maya pitches against Spruce Creek in a game last season. The senior allowed one run in a 1-0 loss to Timber Creek in a Region 1-7A quarterfinal on May 7. File photo by Brent Woronoff
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MAYA, BULLDOGS FALL 1-0

Flagler Palm Coast senior Kevin Maya kept his team in the game against Orlando Timber Creek in the Region 1-7A baseball quarterfinals, but the Bulldogs couldn’t get their bats going against Wolves pitcher Connor Mulready.

Mulready tossed a three-hit shutout against FPC as top-seeded Timber Creek defeated No. 8 seed FPC 1-0 on May 7.

Maya, who along with FPC teammate Connor May will play for Methodist University in Fayetteville, North Carolina, next season, scattered 11 hits in six innings against host Timber Creek. After giving up a run in the first on an RBI by Michael Thomas, Maya threw five shutout innings.

Mulready, who has committed to Rollins College, struck out nine and did not walk a batter. Cody Clymer, Brenin Striplin and Marion Clayton each got a hit for the Bulldogs.

Timber Creek (24-6) went on to beat Spruce Creek on May 10 and Creekside on May 13 to advance to the Class 7A state semifinals.

The Bulldogs struggled at the plate throughout the season, finishing with a .194 team batting average, but they advanced to the regional playoffs for the second year in a row under coach Kyle Marsh, won the Five Star Conference tournament for the first time and finished with a winning record at 14-13.

After losing five in a row in midseason, the Bulldogs won seven straight from April 4 to April 18 and closed the regular season with nine wins in 10 games.

SETH, CERACE PLACE AT TRACK CHAMPIONSHIPS

Seventh grader Douglas Seth placed in the top six in two events at the FLYRA Middle School State Track and Field Championship. Courtesy photo

Douglas Seth finished in the top 20 in three events and Peyton Cerace finished among the top 11 in three events at the Florida Youth Running Association Middle School State Track and Field Championship on May 3-4 at IMG Academy in Bradenton.

Seth, a seventh grader at Buddy Taylor Middle School who runs with Mike Pane’s Imagine School At Town Center club team, placed fourth in the 3,000-meter run with a personal-record time of 9:26.69, sixth in the 1,500 meters (4:22.57) and 19th in the 800 meters (2:15.65).

Indian Trails Middle School eighth grader Peyton Cerace placed fourth in the girls 3,000 meters with a time of 10:31.01, sixth in the 1,500 (4:53.62) and 11th in the 800 (2:26.26).

Douglas Seth in the lead at the FLYRA Middle School State Track and Field Championship. Courtesy photo

Seth won the 3,000 meters at the Middle School Indoor Championship on Feb. 10 with a state record time of 9:33.40. At the outdoor championship, he was the only seventh grader to finish among the top 11 in the 3,000 meters, the only seventh grader to finish among the top eight in the 1,500 and the only seventh grader to finish among the top 20 in the 800.

Eighth grader Owen Stackpole of the Imagine School club also qualified for the FYRA Championship and finished 72nd in the 3,000 meters with a time of 11:08.30.

SCULLING SQUAD BRINGS HOME MEDALS

Marker 14 Sculling Squad: Dan Bryant (Silver, Men's Single Novice); Carole Phelan (Gold, Women's Single); Tom Hury (Bronze, Men's Single Lightweight); Robin Jaeger (fourth, Women's Single Lightweight); Carla Sallese Bice (Silver, Women's Single); Don Davis, coach. Courtesy photo

The Marker 14 Sculling Squad, rowing out of the Intracoastal Waterway in Flagler Beach, brought home medals from the Florida Masters Regatta in Orlando on May 4.

Carole Phelan won gold in the Women's Single catgeory, Carla Sallese Bice won silver in Women's Single, Dan Bryant won silver in Men's Single Novice, Tom Hury won bronze in Men's Single Lightweight and Robin Jaeger placed fourth in Women's Single Lightweight. Don Davis is the squad’s coach.

FPC BASKETBALL CAMP

The Flagler Palm Coast girls basketball team will host a basketball camp for boys and girls ages 6-13 on May 27-29. The camp, led by coach George Butts, will run three days from 8 a.m. to noon at FPC's E.W. "Andy" Anderson Athletic Center. Cost is $130. Register at https://rb.gy/yjp6ca. For more information, call 386-437-7540.

MATANZAS SOCCER CAMP

Matanzas will host a soccer camp for boys and girls in grades 3-8 on May 29-31, 8:30-11:30 a.m. at Matanzas High School. Campers are asked to bring shinguards, cleats and a water bottle and wear athletic clothes.

The camp will be led by Matanzas coaches and players. Campers will learn technical and tactical skills and participate in competitive drills and scrimmages. Cost is $100. To register, go to https://bit.ly/3wotGjO. For more information, email [email protected]

Email news and story ideas for Associated Editor Brent Woronoff at [email protected] 

 

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