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Matanzas celebrated senior day during its bowling match with Pedro Menendez on Oct. 4. From left, back row: Brandon Page, Jett Walden, Mason Evans, Sean Rouzier; front row: Grant McMillan, Azariyah Copeland and Austin Weeks.
Matanzas junior Trevor Challice finished third with a 70 at the Volusia-Flagler Boys Golf Tournament on Oct. 9 at Crane Lakes.
FPC's Braedyn Wormeck (903) placed fourth at the Alligator Lake Invitational in Lake City on Oct. 7.
Former FPC goalkeeper Tanner Paulo will coach goalkeepers for both the Bulldogs' boys and girls teams.
FPC's volleyball team celebrated senior Lily Puritis' 575th career kill on Oct. 4 after the Bulldogs' final regular-season home match.
FPC swimmers (left): Matilda Noble, Emma Gilbert, Malina Hreib and Michelle Marinez placed second in the girls 200 medley relay at the Five Star Conference swimming championships.
Matanzas' boys and girls bowling teams celebrated senior day in a match against Pedro Matanzas on Oct. 4 at Palm Coast Lanes.
The Pirates honored seven seniors — six boys (Brandon Page, Jett Walden, Mason Evans, Grant McMillan, Sean Rouzier and Austin Weeks) and one girl (Azariyah Copeland). The Matanzas boys improved to 10-3 on the season with a 5-2 win. The Matanzas girls shut out the Falcons 7-0 to improve to 8-5.
Three Matanzas girls wrestlers have been ranked among the top 30 in the nation in their weight classes in the USA Wrestling, FloWrestling and National Wrestling Hall of Fame and Museum High School Preseason Girls Rankings.
Mariah Mills is ranked 24th in the 110-pound weight class, Christina Borgmann is ranked 27th in the 125-pound class and Kendall bibla is ranked 28th in the 145-pound class.
The Matanzas volleyball team won four of six matches at the Spruce Creek DME Tournament to improve to 19-5. The Pirates will try to win 20 games for the first time in school history when they play their final regular-season match at Tocoi Creek on Thursday, Oct. 12.
Matanzas, the fourth seed in District 4-6A, will open district tournament play with a home match against No. 5 Gainesville Buchholz at 7 p.m. Monday, Oct. 16. The winner will meet top seed Gainesville in a semifinal at New Smyrna Beach on Oct. 17.
Seabreeze (6-12) and Mainland (4-10) will both play on the road Oct. 16 in District 4-5A. FPC (10-15).
FPC (10-15) honored eight seniors on senior night Oct. 4. On Oct. 5, the Bulldogs celebrated senior Lily Puritis' 575th career kill. The other seniors are Natalya Pilaski, Taylor Flynn, Marcy Seay, Kenna Kirshy, Kayla Ramirez, Ella Thacker and Emma Thacker. FPC will open District 1-7A play on the road on Oct. 16.
Seabreeze tied for third place at the Volusia-Flagler Boys Golf Tournament on Oct. 9 at Crane Lake Golf and Country Club in Port Orange.
Matanzas junior Trevor Challice tied for third place overall with a 4-over-par 70. Flagler Palm Coast's Wynter Dodson placed sixth with a 71. Seabreeze's Isaac Baldwin and Father Lopez's Jack Rossheim were among a tie for sixth place with a 72. Seabreeze's Kyler Crafton finished 11th with a 74.
New Smyrna Beach's Brody Kelly and Spruce Creek's Michael Watson tied for medalist honors. Each shot a 3-over 69. Spruce Creek won the team title with a score of 282. New Smyrna (302) was second. Seabreeze and DeLand tied for third at 308. Matanzas (324) was fifth. Father Lopez (354) was sixth and FPC (362) was eighth out of 12 teams.
FPC's girls swim team won one event and placed second in two others at the Five Star Conference meet on Oct. 7 at the Port Orange YMCA. Freshman Emma Gilbert was seeded third in the 100-yard breaststroke but out-touched top seed Ava Broome of Spruce Creek to win the event with a time of 1:14.49. Broome was second at 1:14.61.
Gilbert also helped the Bulldogs place second in the 200 medley relay with a time of 2:04.19. Matilda Noble swam the backstroke leg, Gilbert swam the breaststroke, Malina Hreib swam the butterfly and Michelle Marinez swam the freestyle. Hreib also placed second in the 50 free with a time of 27.36.
Spruce Creek won the girls title. Seabreeze finished second, while FPC was fourth behind DeLand.
Former Flagler Palm Coast boys soccer goalkeeper Tanner Paulo will coach goalies for both the Bulldogs' boys and girls soccer teams this season. Paulo a 2022 FPC grad, is taking online classes at the University of North Florida, FPC boys coach Ramtin Amiri said.
“We haven't had goalkeeper coaches for a long time," Amiri said. “Goalkeepers are often left out during the training sessions, so we felt that was a position where we needed a specific coach. He'll be at all the games for the girls and boys. Now they'll have someone to warm them up properly. Goalkeeping has a lot of mechanics, so it will be real beneficial for both teams.”
FPC's Braedyn Wormeck placed fourth in the boys 5-kilometer race at the Alligator Lake Invitational cross country meet in Lake City on Oct. 7 with a time of 16:31.20. Arianna Slaughter led the FPC girls with a 14th-place finish in 20:31.10. The boys placed sixth among 22 teams, while the girls placed ninth.
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