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Nick Lilavois won at 129 pounds at March 1 meet with a 445 traditional total and a 415 Olympic total. Photo by Brent Woronoff
FPC 139-pound lifter Richard Beltrami completed a 190-pound clean and jerk on his second lift at a March 1 meet. Photo by Brent Woronoff
FPC 154-pound lifter Luke Laura succeeded on all three of his clean and jerk lifts with a high of 205 at a March 1 meet. Photo by Brent Woronoff
FPC's Dylan Bennett placed fourth in the 169-pound traditional competition with a 380 total at a March 1 meet. Photo by Brent Woronoff
Mainland's Cheyenne Wigley checks the clock during a match at the state championships. Photo by Rachel Mills.
The ref raises Cheyenne Wigley's arm after Mainland's 235-pounder wins a match. Photo by Rachel Mills
Mya Hill smiles after receiving her seventh-place medal. Photo by Rachel Mills.
Mainland's Mya Hill pinned three opponents and placed seventh at state. Photo by Rachel Mills
Mainland's Mya Hill placed seventh at 155 pounds at the girls state wrestling championships. Photo by Rachel Mills
FPC's Ania Martynuk hits a backhand against Nease on March 1. Photo by Brent Woronoff
FPC's No. 2 singles player Ania Martynuk in a match against Nease on March 1. Photo by Brent Woronoff
Alessandro Bevacqua played No. 4 singles against Nease on March 1. Photo by Brent Woronoff
FPC's Alessandro Bevacqua in a match against Nease on March 1. Photo by Brent Woronoff
Ormond Beach Lions Club president Hank Lunsford presents Seeabreeze senior Dominic Marinaccio with a plaque honoring him as the club's February Student Athlete of the Month. Courtesy photo
In its final match before the Five Star Conference championships, Flagler Palm Coast's boys weightlifting team hosted Winter Springs, Bartram Trail and Deltona on March 1.
The Bulldogs finished second in both the traditional and Olympic competition. Winter Springs edged FPC 57-50 in traditional with Deltona (28) third and Bartram Trail (3) fourth. In the Olympic competition, Winter Springs was first with 59 points, followed by FPC (39), Bartram Trail (37) and Deltona (17).
FPC's Nick Lilavois, (129 pounds) and Nick Groth (183) won their weight classes in both competitions. Charley Perry (238) and Kobe Murphy (unlimited) won in traditional.
Lilavois hoisted 445 pounds (225 clean and jerk, 220 bench press) in the traditional competition and 415 (190 snatch) in Olympic. Lilavois, who won both competitions handily, missed his third clean and jerk attempt of 235 pounds.
Last year, 445 pounds was the second-best traditional total by 129-pounders at the Class 3A state championships. Lilavois moved up a weight class this year after finishing second at 119 pounds in traditional lifts and winning the snatch title at state last year.
Groth had the best clean and jerk lift of 295 pounds at the March 1 meet. He totaled 560 in traditional and 515 in Olympic.
Perry won the 235-pound traditional competition by 150 pounds with a 600-pound total. He tied Bartram Trail's Marcos Ramos for the highest Olympic total (420 pounds), but Ramos won the competition by body weight, weighing one pound lighter than Perry.
Murphy did not miss a traditional lift. He completed a 280 pound clean and jerk and benched 360 pounds for a 640-pound total.
The Five Star meet is scheduled for Wednesday, March 8, at FPC.
Mainland's Cheyenne Wigley and Mya Hill each placed seventh at the girls state weightlifting championships March 1-4 at the Silver Spurs Arena in Kissimmee.
Wigley wrestled at 235 pounds, while Hill was in the 155-pound class. Both wrestlers placed at state for the second year in a row.
The Ormond Beach Lions Club honored Seabreeze High School senior Dominic Marinaccio as its student athlete of the month for February. Marinaccio plays soccer for the Sandcrabs and was also on the cross country team.
He was awarded SuperCrab of Athletics for the first quarter this year and was named best newcomer for cross country. He also assists soccer coach Jon Kinsler in refereeing and coaching 3 vs. 3 tournaments and practices for the Under 10 and Under 8 soccer club divisions.
Marinaccio has a 4.53 GPA and is secretary of Seabreeze's National Honor Society. For the last two years he has been drum captain of the drum line and has been chosen to be in the Tomorrow's Leaders program. He has recorded over 400 hours of community service. He plans to study chemical engineering at the University of South Florida or Florida State.
A pro pickleball tournament is scheduled March 9-12 at Pictona at Holly Hill. The Carvana PPA Tour will host the Red Clay Florida Open. This event will be the PPA Tour’s first-ever tournament held in the Volusia-Flagler county area.
The event is a professional and amateur tournament that will feature 1,100 pickleball players in multiple divisions. This will be the fifth event on the pro tour's calendar of 25 events during the 2023 season.
The competitors include the world’s top male and female pros, including Anna Leigh Waters (women’s No. 1), Ben Johns (men’s No. 1), Riley Newman (men’s No. 2) and Catherine Parenteau (women’s No. 2). The professional purse is $238,314 in prize money.
Seabreeze's boys and girls tennis teams were both 6-0 entering the Five Star Conference tournament which is scheduled to conclude Thursday, March 9, at the Florida Tennis Center in Daytona Beach.
FPC's girls tennis team was 3-2, while its young boys team was 1-6 entering the tournament.
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