Wolfberg has 2 state meets today

Timber Creek junior

will be on her third of four straight days of state tournament play when she competes in the FHSAA state tennis final and the state track and field championships on the same day in two different cities today.

But the two-time defending state tennis champion took a soothing ice bath at home after playing four tennis matches on Thursday and said she’s ready to roll.

“I took an ice bath once before and I literally couldn’t stand it and got out,” Wolfberg said. “But it was good tonight. My legs are a lot less sore. I’m excited. I’m ready.”

She better be. Wolfberg, who is ranked No. 1 in Florida’s 18s age group and as the nation’s No. 7 college prospect in the Class of 2019 by Tennis Recruiting, will play for her third consecutive state singles title today at 11 a.m. at Sanlando Park in Altamonte Springs. She’ll then make a 122-mile trip to Jacksonville to run a 4x400-meter relay prelim at 7:30 p.m. at the University of Florida in Jacksonville.

Wolfberg, 17, is also on a Wolves 4x800 relay that runs a Saturday morning state final at UNF.

“I’m ready to get a good night sleep and play one more match and then we’ll go right from there to state track,” she said.

Montverde Academy’s undefeated boys team repeated as the 2A team champion with a 4-1 finals win over Fort Lauderdale Pine Crest. Freedom middle distance dynamo

and Timber Creek pole vaulter will seek to win state track and field championships on their future college campus at UNFthis weekend.

Doyle, the two-time defending Class 4A champion in the 1,600-meter run, will run for a an 800 title this morning and for a three-peat in the metric mile on Saturday.

Thompson, who joined with Doyle in signing with UNF, was fourth at state in the pole vault as a junior. But he has soared nearly a foot higher this year with a best of 15 feet, 7 inches that leads 4A.

“I’m super-excited. It’s going to feel more like a college meet because I’ll be practicing there every day next year,” Thompson said after he nearly succeeded on two attempts to clear 16-1 in his Region 1 victory last week at Flagler Palm Coast. Competition begins at 8:30 a.m. Saturday’s first races will be the girls 4x800 relays at 10 a.m., where Winter Park will attempt to win that 4A event for the fourth consecutive season with seniors

and Other top 4A girls top seeds include Olympia ninth-grader

in both the 100 and 200, Seminole’s 4x100 relay, and Oak Ridge’s senior in the triple jump. West Orange senior

a bruising football fullback/tight end and basketball power forward for the Warriors, is a favorite in the boys 4A shot put after unleashing a careerbest 53-footer last week.

Three junior sprinters who are expected to excel in football in 2018, of Lake Brantley, of Apopka and

of Winter Springs, are also state title contenders. The First Academy sophomore

was the 1A state champ in both the 110 and 300 hurdles, and the long jump runner-up, as a freshman. He also runs on a 4x400 relay that helps put the Royals in the hunt for the team championship.

TFA was the state runner-up each of the past five seasons. FSU football recruit

leads a speedy Daytona Beach Mainland group that is the area’s best 3A squad. in

In the wake of a controversial ruling on a region final, two all-Central Florida semifinals are qeued up for today’s water polo state tournament at Ransom Everglades in Miami.

Olympia, which won the girls state championship last season, sends its 27-2 boys team to Miami this time to face Lake Nona (22-6) in a 7 p.m. boys semifinal. It’s the first final four berth for the Olympia boys program.

A 4 p.m. girls game pits a youthful Lake Nona (23-5) squad against Lake Mary (24-4), which was declared the Region 1 winner by the FHSAA after referees mistakenly allowed its game vs. Winter Park last Saturday to go to triple-overtime.

Winter Park was initially reported as a 7-6 winner but the FHSAA ruled Lake Mary the victor by a 5-4 score because it scored the first goal in what by rule was supposed to be a suddenvictory overtime.

Lake Mary had to wait out a Tuesday afternoon emergency appeal hearing for Winter Park, where the FHSAA’s board of directors upheld its administrative ruling.

“I’m trying to get a group of 18 girls who’ve gone through a whirlwind of emotions in the past two days focused on moving forward and getting ready to go to these state games,” Rams coach said after the hearing.

It is the first trip to state for a Lake Mary girls water polo team since Baker was a standout senior for the Rams in 2007.

Lake Nona is making its seventh girls state tourney appearance in its nine years as a program and its fourth boys state trip under veteran coach

Semifinal winners advance to Saturday state finals. Celebration boys volleyball coach

said this week that his boys are having a blast this spring. A 25-1 season will do that for you. The Storm will look to stretch their streak of success when they play Palm Beach Central (19-3) in a state quarterfinal tonight at Boca Raton.

Lake Mary (25-2) plays host Boca Raton (21-3) in the early semi.