First Coast Varsity Weekly: Bolles' D.J. Moore commits to Coastal Carolina football
D.J. Moore is on his way to Coastal Carolina.
The Bolles junior quarterback committed to the Chanticleers on Sunday night, announcing his decision on Twitter. He had received more than a dozen scholarship offers, which had included Cincinnati, UCF and Tennessee.
Moore completed 73 of 139 passes for 1,101 yards, 11 touchdowns and seven interceptions for the Class 2M semifinalists in 2022, missing some time due to injury. He completed 62 percent of his attempts in 2021, when he split playing time with Middle Tennessee signee Jakson Judge.
The 6-1, 165-pound Moore is ranked as a three-star prospect by major recruiting outlets and a top-70 quarterback nationwide in the 247Sports composite.
Moore becomes the latest in a growing list of college-committed Northeast Florida quarterbacks in the 2024 class. Already committed are Bartram Trail's Riley Trujillo (UCF), Bishop Kenny's James Resar (Iowa) and Fletcher's Marcelis Tate (USF), while Trinity Christian's LSU-committed Colin Hurley is now classified as a 2024 recruit.
Coastal Carolina finished with a 9-4 record in 2022, one year after briefly breaking into the top 10 in the Associated Press poll.
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Champions Paridon, Cruce lead county list
Florida High School Athletic Association Class 2A champion Jayce Paridon headlined a Fleming Island-heavy selection on Clay County's All-County boys wrestling squad.
Paridon, the state champion at 132 pounds, led nine Golden Eagles on the first team along with Shane Duhaylungsod (113), Kaden Schaefer (145), Matthew Kotler (152), Christopher Chop (160), Ronan Bozeman (170), Joshua Sandoval (182), Jhoel Robinson (220) and Ethan Hoffstetter (285).
Clay's Jacob Bucci (106), Middleburg's Grady Woodard (120), Oakleaf's Sebastian Bonachea (126) and Isaiah Shevchook (195) and Ridgeview's Christian Garcia (138) completed the first team.
Second-team picks were Drew Holmquist (113), Landon Soloman (138), Dominic Martin (170) and Kedtric Wilborn (220) from Clay; Matthew Newman (106) and Laird Duhaylungsod (126) from Fleming Island; Wyatt Leduc (132), Logan Moore (145), Chad Raines (152) and Tucker Cody (285) from Middleburg; Ion Hortinela (120) from Oakleaf; and James Laycock (182) and Rayhn Hutchinson (195) from Ridgeview.
State champion Cheyenne Cruce was among eight Middleburg selections to the county's girls wrestling team, joining Gracie Bradshaw, Memphis Moses, Sarah Walsh, Heidi Castleberry, Lily Bradshaw, Savannah Huckins and Skyla Fisher.
Aubrianna Apple of Clay and Lillian Heflin of Ridgeview also made the squad, along with the Oakleaf quartet of Adrianna Barrientos, Kailani Barrientos, Sofia Shirley-Montijo and Jayla Harrison.
Keystone, Suwannee win weightlifting regions
Host Suwannee and Keystone Heights led the pack in Friday's Region 2-1A boys weightlifting tournament, the final step before this week's state championships.
Keystone edged Suwannee 56-53 for top spot in the traditional standings, while Suwannee scored 74 to Keystone's 54 in the Olympic category. No other school came within 30 points of the winners.
Chris Gonzalez (119 pounds), Marquavious Owens (154), Sam Wainwright (183) and Will Wainwright (199) won their respective weight divisions in both the traditional and Olympic categories for Suwannee, and Brandon Robinson placed first in the 219-pound Olympic division. Champions for Keystone were Brian Overton (169, traditional and Olympic), Larry Jeffries III (219, traditional) and Tyeler Anthony-Rozier (238, traditional and Olympic).
Bolles' Iowa State-signed senior offensive lineman Brendan Black won both traditional and Olympic competitions in the unlimited weight class, Union County's Christian Simmons swept the 129-pound division and Hilliard's Colton Conner placed first in traditional weightlifting for 139 pounds.
Simmons was the region's top traditional lifter overall with his 510-pound aggregate, while Sam Wainwright placed first in the Olympic standings with his 575-pound mark. Those awards are based on the Schwartz formula, used to evaluate pound-for-pound performance.
Winning in Region 1-2A in Live Oak were Fleming Island's Tyler Beverly (169, Olympic), Zach Davis (154, traditional and Olympic), Gage Isbell (unlimited, Olympic) and Jered Rhodes (199, traditional); Middleburg's Josh Senear (169, traditional); Ridgeview's Randy Emmanuel (129, traditional and Olympic) and Collier Stephens (238, traditional); and Yulee's Coen Brehmer (119, traditional and Olympic).
In Region 1-3A at Flagler Palm Coast, Oakleaf's Cristian Rodriguez won the 139-pound division in both traditional and Olympic categories, while other victors were Creekside's Tanner Owens (219, traditional) and Bartram Trail's Landon Perez (unlimited, Olympic).
The FHSAA finals are set for Friday and Saturday at Lakeland's RP Funding Center, the site of the state basketball finals.
Wild comeback for Fightin' Tigers
Down five runs in extra innings? No problem for Union County.
The Fightin' Tigers fought back in another candidate for softball game of the year on Tuesday, winning 17-16 against Alachua Santa Fe in the bottom of the ninth.
Santa Fe scored five times in the top of the ninth before Union County responded with six in the bottom half, winning it on a walk-off single from senior infielder Hannah Rivera.
For Union County, the rally was their second major comeback of the game. Leah Clark, who went 4 for 6, had whacked a two-run single in the bottom of the seventh to send the game into extra innings.
The teams combined for 38 hits and some staggering statistics. Amy Crosby, Grace Mattson and Madie Crosby, at the top of Santa Fe's batting order, combined to go 12 for 18 with five doubles, a triple, seven RBI and eight runs scored.
Clayton Freeman covers high school sports and more for the Florida Times-Union. Follow him on Twitter at @CFreemanJAX.
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