Lake Mary’s side of story
Lake Mary athletic director
said Wednesday that his school and his girls water polo coach, are getting unfairly “butchered” by critics in the aftermath of a Florida High School Athletic Association decision that made the Rams the winner of Saturday’s region final vs. Winter Park.
Peters said Lake Mary did not file a protest asking the FHSAA to overturn what was originally reported as a 7-6 tripleovertime Winter Park win.
The FHSAA on Monday said that by rule the game should have ended with the first goal scored in overtime and declared Lake Mary the winner by a 5-4 score.
“Winter Park’s girls must feel like the rug is pulled out from under them. Everybody here understands that,” Peters said. “Going by the rule, we actually feel like we won. I do see both sides, I honestly do.
“But I don’t feel like it’s fair to Lake Mary High School the way we’re being portrayed. And Paige is really getting unfair treatment.”
Peters said he did send an email to FHSAA water polo administrator
“to let them know that we felt the officials made a mistake and that my coach stated that at the captain’s meeting [before overtime was played].
“We did not file an actual protest of any type, and I really didn’t expect anything to come of it,” Peters said.
What came of it was the FHSAA ruling, an unsuccessful appeal by Winter Park on Tuesday, and a barrage of criticism of Lake Mary for raising a stink.
“My coach [Baker]said she questioned the official at the appropriate time,” Peters said.
“I feel like if they could have taken a few minutes to check that rule when she voiced her opinion all of this could have been avoided. She was as polite as she possibly could be and she’s getting butchered. And she was the one who was right the whole time.”
Senior extended Timber Creek’s baseball season with a walk-off home run in a 5-3 district semifinal win over Winter Park on Wednesday.
Roque homered over the wall in left field in the bottom of the seventh in the Class 9A, District 6 tournament at Colonial. Timber Creek (17-7), ranked No. 6 in the
Super Six, trailed 2-0 in the first after Winter Park scored runs on an error.
The defending state champion Wolves advance to play in the district final on Friday at 7 p.m.
“It’s a big stepping stone for this team,” Timber Creek coach said. “This is the first game all year where we’ve gotten behind early and came back to win it.”
Roque finished 3-for-4 with three runs batted in. Sophomore homered for the Wolves in the first inning.
Senior pitcher went the distance and finished with nine strikeouts and one earned run allowed.
Olympia boys and Winter Park’s girls won Wednesday to advance to state tennis tournament semifinal matches today at Red Bug Lake Park.
Montverde Academy’s also advanced. Two-time girls 4A state singles champ and Lake Mary senior both will play individual bracket singles finals today.
Gorshein pulled out an upset win vs. the No. 2 seed, of Sarasota Riverview, in a third-set tiebreaker. boys and girls