Olympia girls stay perfect in water polo

The Olympia girls water polo team continued its unprecedented undefeated run, swimming to an easy 13-2 win over Lake Nona in a state first round play-in game at Lake Highland Prep on Saturday.

The Titans (28-0), last year’s state runner-up, will face South Broward on Friday in an FHSAA state quarterfinal game hosted by Miami Ransom Everglades School.

“Our (season) goal was not to be undefeated to this point,” said Olympia coach

who is in her eighth year as coach of both the girls and boys teams. “Our goal is to win one possession, one goal, one game at a time.”

Junior Lake Nona’s lone returning starter from last year, put the Lions (18-9) up 1-0 with a goal thirty seconds into the game.

Olympia senior tied the score at 1-1 midway through the first quarter, followed by goals from fellow seniors and led 6-1 by halftime. Delisle finished with five goals. Olympia goalkeeper

had 12 saves and two steals. Her counterpart, had 16 saves for Lake Nona.

The two schools’ boys teams also and the Titans faced off on Saturday, with Olympia coming away with a gritty 9-8 victory. The Titans (21-7) led until Lake Nona managed to tie at 8-8 with 5 minutes and 22 seconds to go. Olympia answered two minutes later and held on for the win.

Olympia senior had five goals and two assists and fellow senior had 13 saves.

Winter Park swept a doubleheader at its home pool. The Wildcats girls team came back from a 6-4 halftime deficit to advance to state with a 13-9 win over Lake Brantley.

scored four and

NASCAR CUP AT MARTINSVILLE, 2 P.M. FS1 goals seniors and contributed to the second half comeback as the Wildcats improved to 26-2. The Winter Park boys (23-5), led by a stellar effort in goal by overpowered Seminole 14-3.

Montverde Academy bolted out to an impressive start in Saturday’s Dick’s Sporting Goods High School Nationals championship boys basketball game against La Lumiere School of Indiana.

But Montverde’s shooting cooled and the top-seeded Lakers took control in the second half en route to a 70-52 victory at Christ the King School in New York City.

The Eagles led 28-27 at the half, but momentum shifted to top-seeded La Lumiere (28-1) for good when its standout guard, Jordan Poole, made a fadeaway 3-point shot for 47-38 lead as the third quarter ended.

Montverde, which finished 26-5, was again led in scoring by sophomore with 25 points. But the prized Canadian prospect was limited to 10-of-24 shooting. Orange City junior edged Lyman senior

by five-hundredths of a second to win the Embry-Riddle Spikes Classic boys 110-meter hurdles (14.13 seconds to 14.18).

Thyme came back to win Saturday’s 300 hurdles with a career-best 37.86 time ahead of Lingard’s 38.00. Girls state shot put leader

of Oviedo upped her personal best to 43-feet, 10½-inches and won by nearly 10 feet.