- October 23, 2024
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Flagler Palm Coast freshman Peyton Cerasi has been fast on cross country courses all season. She also wasted little time in moving up in the school record book.
Cerasi broke the Bulldogs’ girls cross country school record with a 5K time of 18 minutes, 35 seconds on Oct. 19 at the New World Fall Spectacular at Cecil Field Golf Course in Jacksonville.
She broke the converted record time of 18:41, set by Kelly Walker in 1999, more than a decade before Cerasi was born. That year, cross country courses were slightly shorter at 3 miles.
Although this was a fast course, Cerasi will probably break her own record at least a few more times before she graduates in 2028.
Ceraci placed 20th in the Elite Girls division at the New World race. Spruce Creek’s Mackenzie Roy won the race with a personal-record 17:14. FPC placed eighth as a team with Arianna Slaughter placing 45th with a PR of 19:07 and Cassidy De Young placing 59th in 19:26.
Among the boys, FPC’s Jevin Luna dropped more than a minute off his previous best time with a 16:18 to finish 76th in the Elite Boys division. In the Boys B division, Matanzas’ Blaine Vogel placed fourth with a time of 16:49, while Matt Ciardi, also of Matanzas, ran 17:18 to place 12th.
In the Volusia-Flagler Invitational on Oct. 16 at New Smyrna Beach, Matanzas sophomore Lupita Galeano won the girls Freshman-Sophomore Championship with a time of 21:03.7. Matanzas junior Sara Van Buren placed second in the Junior-Senior Open in 20:33.4.
Seabreeze’s Hunter Shuler won the boys junior-senior race with a 16:54.5. Matanzas’ Blaine Vogel and Matt Ciardi were fourth and fifth, respectively, in 17:34.6 and 17:34.7.
Jackson Lowitz, 15, a sophomore at Matanzas High School, took home the silver medal at the men’s singles Pink ’N Pickle pickleball tournament Oct. 18 at the Southern Recreation Center in Palm Coast.
Daryl Noble won the tournament title with an 11-6 win over Lowitz in the final. Lowitz has been playing pickleball for a little over a year, his mother, Stephanie Lowitz, said. He beat City Councilman Nick Klufas twice in the double elimination tournament, and lost to Noble twice.
The tournament was for players with a 4.0 skill level and below.
The First Baptist Christian Aacademy volleyball team won a district championship for the first time in school history with a 3-1 win over Trinity Christian of Deltona in the District 5-1A final on Oct. 17 at Calvary Christian in Ormond Beach.
Syanigh Arneaud led the Crusaders with 15 kills while Joanna Fernandez had nine kills, 14 digs and four aces and Syrenity Arneaud had 23 assists, 13 digs and four aces.
First Baptist’s season ended in the first round of regionals on Oct. 23, with a 3-0 loss to Brevard HEAT. The Crusaders finished with a 13-7 record.
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