- December 26, 2024
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Two days after winning two titles at the Five Star Conference boys weightlifting championships, Flagler Palm Coast senior Nick Groth broke three school records at a meet at Suwannee High School on March 15.
Groth set records for 183 pounds in the clean and jerk (320 pounds), snatch (255) and Olympic total (575).
Groth won the Olympic and traditional championships in the 183-pound class at the Five Star meet on March 13 at Spruce Creek High School. He lifted a 550-pound Olympic total and a 595 traditional total with a 315-pound clean and jerk and 280-pound bench press.
The Bulldogs placed fourth in both the traditional and Olympic competitions at the conference meet. They also had a runner-up: Joseph Casanova in Olympic at 235 pounds. Seabreeze's Ezra Williams (199 pounds, Olympic) and FPC's Cody Strawster (119 pouds, Olympic and traditional) took home third-place medals.
Seabreeze hit three home runs in its 7-1 baseball win against Matanzas on March 15 at Jackie Robinson Ballpark. Rustin Hurley and Noah Katsikos smacked solo homers, while Zane Barron hit a two-run shot. Micah Sanders pitched six shutout innings for the Sandcrabs. Sanders struck out 10, walked two and allowed two hits.
Mainland won the girls team title and finished second among boys teams at the Big D Relays in DeLand on March 16. Matanzas placed third among girls and fifth among boys. Seabreeze’s girls team was fifth and boys team sixth.
Among the few individual events, Mainland’s Marquis McCants won the boys long jump with a leap of 20 feet, 5.25 inches; Seabreeze’s Hunter Shuler won the boys 1,600 with a time of 4:39.74; and Matanzas’ Jeffrey Powell won the boys triple jump at 42 feet, 2 inches.
Flagler Palm Coast’s Colby Cronk won the shot put at the Bob Hayes Invitational in Jacksonville on March 16 with a new school record of 53 feet, 11 inches. Cronk broke his own record of 52-11.5 at the North Florida/South Florida Challenge a week earlier.
Cronk also finished second in discus at the Bob Hayes meet with a toss of 153-06. FPC’s Jack Gilvary and Summer Barnes were scholarship winners at the meet.
Matanzas freshman Henry Robinson Jr. is one of 10 freshmen and 65 basketball players overall to be invited to participate in the USA Men’s Jr. National Team Minicamp at the NCAA Final Four in Phoenix on April 4-7.
“This is definitely a proud papa moment,” said Henry Robinson Sr., Matanzas’ High’s head boys basketball coach and Henry Jr.’s dad. The 6-6 forward averaged 20.8 points and 9.8 rebounds this season.
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