- December 7, 2025
Seabreeze bowling coach Paul Shuler takes a selfie with the boys team, which will try to defend its state championship on Oct. 28-30 at Boardwalk Bowl Entertainment Center. Photo by Brent Woronoff
Flagler Palm Coast, left, and Matanzas swept the two District 3 spots in the girls state championships for Flagler County. Photo by Brent Woronoff
Seabreeze's Logan Compton celebrates after rolling a strike. Photo by Brent Woronoff
District 3 girls bowling individual champ Olivia Rabbat of Matanzas. Photo by Brent Woronoff
Disrict 3 boys bowling champs, Seabreeze Sandcrabs: Jonathan King, Logan Compton, Xavier Subia, Dalton Boyce, Braydon Russell and coach Paul Shuler. Photo by Brent Woronoff
District 3 girls bowling champs, Flagler Palm Coast Bulldogs: Destiny Bonvouloir, Casey Martin, coach Vicky Eaton, Victoria DaSilva Carvalheira, coach Kevin Hand, Izzy Oliva, Mya Kelly, Jenet Serrano, Kailyn Ball (front). Photo by Brent Woronoff
District 3 boys runners-up, Mainland Bucs: Judah McFarran, Riley Boyce, Hayden French, Leiten Lundell, coach Joe Giddens, Grashawn Ager, Jack Patulski. Photo by Brent Woronoff
District 3 girls runners-up, Matanzas Pirates (back row): Madelyn Hate, Skyleen Ramos, Olivia Rabbat, Emma Ball, coach Jennifer Warren. (front): Julia McNeal, Kayleigh Nelson-Blasksza, Natalie Beaulieu. Photo by Brent Woronoff
District 3 boys individual champ Logan Compton and runner-up Braydon Russell of Seabreeze. Photo by Brent Woronoff
The Seabreeze will get the chance to defend its boys state bowling championship.
The Sandcrabs are returning to the state championships after winning the District 3 boys championship on Monday, Oct. 20, at Palm Coast Lanes. Seabreeze had to come out of the consolation bracket and defeat Mainland twice in Baker matches to win the title. The Sandcrabs won the championship match 3-1, with the final Baker game decided by one pin, 212-211.
The Bucs will be joining the Sandcrabs at state as the district runner-up.
Flagler Palm Coast won the girls championship, with Matanzas taking the runner-up spot to advance to the state championships for the first time.
Matanzas senior Olivia Rabbat won the individual title with 652 total pins for a 217.3 average. There were only three 200 games among the 47 girls who bowled and Rabbat had two of them — a 203 and a 276.
Rabbat will be making her second trip to states — she was district runner-up last year. But this year she will be joined by all of her teammates.
“That makes it really special,” she said. “I was all alone last year, and I had to just push through by myself.”
FPC won three straight Baker matches to win the team title, beating Tallahassee Lincoln 3-0, Matanzas 3-2 and Matanzas again in the championship match, 3-1. The Pirates beat Orange Park Ridgeview 3-2 in the first round and beat Ridgeview 3-0 again in the consolation final.
When the Bulldogs and Pirates weren’t competing against each other they were rooting for each other.
“That’s typical,” FPC coach Vicky Eaton said. “We make sure to support them and they come out to support us.”
Three FPC bowlers finished among the top 10 in the morning rounds with Victoria DaSilva Carvalheira fifth with a 165.3 average, Destiny Bonvouloir sixth with a 162.0 average and Kailyn Ball ninth with a 159.67. Seabreeze’s Katelyn Miller was 10th with a 153.67.
The Seabreeze and Mainland boys claimed five of the top six individual spots. Logan Compton was first with a 239.67 average with teammate Braydon Russell second with a 236.67, Mainland’s Leiten Lundell — who bowled for Seabreeze last year — third with a 231.67, Menendez’s John McGauhey fourth with a 229.33, Seabreeze’s Dalton Boyce fifth with a 228.0 and Mainland’s Jack Patulski sixth with a 225.33.
“I had a really good start,” Compton said. “I wasn’t throwing the most consistent shots, but I got some lucky breaks. For me, it was taking more time on my shots.”
Boyce rolled a strike in the 10th frame of Game 4 in the final Baker match to clinch the Sandcrabs’ second straight district title. Seabreeze had to play 23 Baker games in the afternoon session to come out on top.
It was a long day. We had to beat everybody (twice). Last year we won everything; we didn't have to go into the loser's bracket.
— XAVIER SUBIA, Seabreeze junior
“It was a long day,” Seabreeze’s Xavier Subia said. “We had to beat everybody (twice). Last year we won everything; we didn't have to go into the loser's bracket. This year we only have five players, so everyone has to play.”
The Sandcrabs had the top team score in the morning but lost their first Baker match to Pedro Menendez 3-2 to drop to the consolation bracket, where they beat Tallahassee Rickards 3-2 after losing the first two games, and then beat Menendez 3-1 to face Mainland for the championship.
“We were worried about not making the finals after losing the first one to Pedro,” Seabreeze coach Paul Shuler said.
The Bucs won two straight 3-0 matches in the double-elimination event to face their crosstown rivals in the finals and could afford to lose a match. Seabreeze beat Mainland 3-2 to set up the final match, winning the third game by one pin, 183-182, and winning the fifth game, 215-190.
The Sandcrabs bowled over 200 in all four games of the final match. The Bucs put up consecutive 211 scores in games 3 and 4, but that wasn't enough as Seabreeze closed with a 247 and a 212.
With four bowlers returning from last year’s state championship team, Compton said experience was the difference.
“It goes down to experience and keeping your cool,” he said.
The state championships are scheduled for Oct. 28-30 at Boardwalk Bowl Entertainment Center in Orlando.
