Lake Highland has 4 national champs
Four members of Lake Highland Prep’s state title wrestling team won National High School Coaches Association championships over the weekend in Virginia Beach.
and each won national titles at a three-day event that is broken down into individual tournaments for each grade level.
Rogers scored a takedown in overtime to win the 170-pound senior national final 3-1 over three-time Georgia state champ
“He had a good gas tank too, so I just kept putting myself into the best positions I could,” Rogers said. “I was confident that I would come out on top if I just kept doing the things I always do and try not to make mistakes.”
Four-time Florida state champ Silva captured the 132-pound junior title for his third NHSCA championship. He could become the sixth wrestler to win four next season.
Byelick (160) also picked up a title in the junior division and Bele won the freshman 145-pound weight class. Lake Highland wrestlers
and also reached the finals to earn national runner-up spots. Teammates
and also earned All-American honors. Kissimmee Osceola's
earned sophomore All-American status by taking fifth at 120 pounds.
Florida had eight national champions and 23 All-American. Only Pennsylvania had more winners (10).
“I love to see the Florida guys do so well,” Rogers said. “As a young kid, people overlooked me for being from Florida and it wasn’t known as a wrestling state.”
Bishop Moore is paying respect to its baseball past Friday night.
The Hornets will celebrate the anniversaries of the 1967 and 2007 state championship teams during their game against New Jersey’s Don Bosco Prep at Joe Skinner Field at 7 p.m.
Returning players will be recognized in between innings and be presented with medals and commemorative shirts.
Edgewater junior baseball player
will throw out the first pitch. He is the son of former Bishop Moore coach who passed away following a brief battle with cancer earlier this month.
Wheeler, who coached at Bishop Moore from 1994-2010, guided the Hornets to the 2007 Class 4A title game in Sarasota where they won 12-10 over Pensacola Pine Forest.
Coached by in 1967, Bishop Moore went on the road to defeat host Fort Myers Cypress Lake 4-3 for the school’s first state title in any sport.
Apopka, which is ranked fourth in 2A girls flag football by FloridaHSFootball.com, goes to Tallahassee for the Capital City Classic this weekend.
The Blue Darters are in the eightteam Gold bracket, which includes the top-ranked team in 2A, Tampa Alonso, and No. 1 in 1A Tampa Robinson.
Apopka opens on Thursday at DeLand before heading to Tallahassee to face hometown Lincoln on Friday.
Two perennial power boys tennis programs clash when undefeated Lake Mary (10-0) hosts Olympia (10-1) this afternoon at 3:30.
They played to a 3-3 regular season tie that could not be completed due to darkness a year ago. In a rematch in the opening round of the Class 4A state tournament at Sanlando Park, Olympia cruised to a 4-0 victory before losing in the semifinal round.
The match to watch this year pits training partners of Lake Mary and of Olympia vs. each other at No. 1 singles.
Don Bosco Prep is traveling from New Jersey to start its 2017 baseball season in Florida this weekend. The Ironmen play at West Orange on Thursday night before facing Bishop Moore on Friday in games that are listed as preseason dates for Don Bosco. Its regular season opener is at Apopka on Saturday at 1 p.m.
Orange County boys weightlifters seek state meet berths in tonight’s 2A Region 5 qualifier at Timber Creek. Competition begins at 6 p.m.
Winter Park sends its reigning state champion 4x800-meter relay foursome to the FSU Relays this weekend with sights set on a school record, and maybe some other marks, in the rarely-contested distance medley relay. The lineup has running the first 1,200 by 400, Melanie White 800, and
covering the final four laps (1,600). meters, followed running