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Andy Mikula, Correspondent     Over the last decade, one of the strengths of Flagler Palm Coast’s vaunted track program has been the excellence in relay events, and it looks like the Class 4A state meet will be no exception.    The Bulldogs’ 4x400 relay team of Vijay Weeden, Brandon Kalasnik, Marcus Freeman and Matt Flint took second place in photo finish fashion May 1 at the Region 1-4A track meet at FPC’s Sal Campanella Memorial Stadium. The foursome ran the final event of the re...

Andy Mikula, Correspondent    Matanzas’s wrestling team is sending three of its squad to the Class 2A state tournament in Kissimmee after they placed at the Region 1-2A qualifier at Lynn Haven Mosley on Feb. 26 and 27.     Brothers Tyson and Jordan Mills both placed second at the tournament in their weight classes, while Carter Wilder earned a third-place showing. Matanzas took 11th as a team.     Tyson Mills, Matanzas’s 152-pound junior, went up against with Joel Rodriguez of F...

Andy Mikula, Correspondent Matanzas will advance eight wrestlers and claimed four weight class championships last week at home during the District 4-2A tournament. Capturing individual titles at the Feb. 17 meet were Carter Wilder, brothers Tyson and Jordan Mills and Robert Elder. Quincy Cuthbert was second in his weight class, Braden Hawley Logan Mayer and Brandyn Cox all took third place, and Toryion Stallings was fourth.    Wilder (106) won his title with a pin of Gavin Barrio of St. Augus...

Andy Mikula, Correspondent WRESTLING Five Flagler Palm Coast wrestlers placed and the Bulldogs took seventh in team points at the Cradle Cancer Invitational at Jensen Beach on Jan. 8 and 9. Kyle Peacock led the FPC squad with a second-place finish in the 160-pound class. He pinned his first round opponent in 49 seconds and then picked up wins by decision in the next two, including a 3-0 win in the bracket semi-finals. He was defeated 6-2 in the championship match by Riley Orr of Fort Pierce Cen...

Andy Mikula, Correspondent WRESTLING Flagler Palm Coast upperweight Garrick Schwartz was a champion and nine other Bulldog wrestlers placed at the Danny Byron Invitational Dec. 12 at Kissimmee Osceola. Schwartz, who wrestles at 195, was 3-0 with three pinfalls in the tournament and earned the championship by defeating his wrestling room sparring partner in the round robin final. Dalton Schell placed second and had two wins before being pinned at the 1:47 mark of the head-to-head match by Schwar...

Andy Mikula, Correspondent WRESTLING Flagler Palm Coast got the new season off to a fast start Dec. 5 winning the 10-team Kenny Pfeifer Invitational at Sebastian River with four weight class champions among more than a dozen place winners. Kyle Peacock (152), Tim King (160), Marcelo Gonzalez (182) and Garrick Schwartz (195) all sported 5-0 records in the round robin format tournament, with Peacock pinning all five of his opponents for 35 team points. King and Schwartz were both had four pins an...