Right time for revenge: Seabreeze finishes third in Five Star Conference flag football tournament

Seabreeze notched back-to-back wins against Mainland and Pine Ridge to bounce back from a first-round loss to Deltona.

  • By Michele Meyers
  • | 4:03 p.m. April 7, 2025
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The Seabreeze flag football team finished third in the Five Star Conference Tournament with a 13-0 win in the consolation final against Pine Ridge on April 3 at the Ormond Beach Sports Complex.

The Sandcrabs beat Mainland 6-0 on April 2 after falling to Deltona 13-7 in a first-round game on March 31. Spruce Creek claimed the championship with a win over Deltona in the title match.

Seabreeze coach Todd Barnes said the consolation round gave all of the teams a chance to continue playing in the tournament. After the Sandcrabs’ first-round loss to the Wolves, he said his team was able to play two revenge games. Both Mainland and Pine Ridge had beaten Seabreeze in overtime earlier this season.

After the win over Pine Ridge, Barnes told his players, “What have I told you all year — get better every game and get better at the right time of the season. This is the right time of the season to start winning games.”

Seabreeze was scheduled to hold Senior Night at its final regular-season game Monday, April 7, against Deltona.  District tournaments are scheduled to begin on April 14.

"I’m so proud of you all,” Barnes told his team. “Keep working hard and let’s keep winning.”

The Sandcrabs dominated the first half in the game against Pine Ridge. With 18 seconds left in the second quarter, wide receiver Camryn Chiumento snatched the handoff and sprinted in for a touchdown. The senior finished the game with an interception in the third quarter, three solo tackles and a 20-yard punt return.

“I’m really proud of my team,” she said. “We’ve had a little bit of a losing streak but we never gave up. We always played our hardest no matter what our streak was. These past two games, my teammates have shown up and given it their all. It’s great to see everyone working together in tandem and lifting each other up.”

Chiumento has been playing flag football at Seabreeze since her sophomore year and on Ormond Beach Leisure Services teams since she was 7 years old with her brothers Mac and Carson. Mac is currently a junior at Florida State University where he is a punter on the football team. This is Carson’s first year attending the University of Florida where Camryn said she will be going in the fall and majoring in mechanical engineering.


This is the right time of the season to start winning games. ...  I’m so proud of you all. Keep working hard and let’s keep winning.
—TODD BARNES, Seabreeze head flag football coach 

“You have to be tough growing up with two older brothers,” she said.

Four minutes into the third quarter, Seabreeze’s Amira Ferguson intercepted a pass by Pine Ridge quarterback Keyrielys Roman Burgos. Two minutes later, the Panthers grabbed an interception and three minutes after that, Chiumento intercepted the ball, finishing her return close to the end zone. Sandcrabs’wide receiver Ylan Phan scored just seconds into the fourth quarter followed by an extra point by Natalia Monde.

Phan had 10 carries for 97 yards, received three passes for 34 yards and had one solo tackle. Barnes said the Daytona State College head flag football coach, Brian Colubiale, contacted him about Phan trying out for the Falcons.

Barnes said his team has had it share of close battles this season.

“This season has been tight all year,” he said. “A lot of teams are really close to each other. We lost three overtime games and five games total by six points or less. We’ve struggled a little bit with offense, but it’s starting to click now.”

Chiumento said that before the Senior Night game against Deltona, she and her teammates planned to review past errors and plan out their defense against the Wolves’ talented quarterback, Tasha Williams.

“Senior Night will get us (the seniors) emotional because it is our last season game,” she said. “A lot of us have been playing for a while, so it definitely makes us want to win especially since there will be a lot of family there. We will play with heart and put the last two losses against them behind us. This is a new game.”

 

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