High School for Oct. 24-29: Cross country regional, bowling, golf, swimming district champs crowned
Here are the high school sports results reported for the week of Oct. 24-29. It will be updated each night during the week as games, matches, and meets are completed and reported.
Coaches, please send your scores, highlights, and stat leaders after each contest to sports@news-press.com and/or sports@naplesnews.com to be included in this roundup.
PREVIOUSLY: Southwest Florida sports scores for Oct. 16-22: Cross Country, swimming crown district champs
SATURDAY
Cross Country
Region 4A-2: Palmetto Ridge's Bernardo Barnhart won the regional title in North Port with a time of 15:18.50 which helped the Bears place fourth overall to advance to the state meet net week in Tallahassee. His Bears teammate Chris Amador placed eighth in 15:56.29.
Gulf Coast's William Montanye also advanced to state with a sixth-place finish in 15:34.91.
For the girls, Lehigh's Gianna Del Pizzo also moves on to state after placing ninth in 19:27.04. Kaia Callis was the top Gulf Coast runner, placing 18th in 20:01.74.
FRIDAY
Swimming
District 1A-9: Community School of Naples took home the 1A-9 title in both boys and girls. behind 14 combined first places finishes between the two squads. Carson Feehery, Egor Kuznetsov, and Nick Fabian all earned four gold medals each on the boys side. Christian McAuley tacked on a gold for the Seahawks in the 200 free.
For the girls, Adrianna Achecar-Romanin led the way with two golds in the 50 and 100 freestyle, while Charlotte Norman won the 1m diving. Campbell Steere added a win for the girls in the 100 breaststroke.
Boys Team Results: 1. Community School of Naples, 513; 2. Bishop Verot High School, 369; 3. Oasis High School 264; 4. Saint John Neumann High School, 171 5.; Canterbury, 150; 6. Seacrest Country Day School, 141; 7. Evangelical Christian School, 120; 8. The Village School of Naples, 84; 9. SFCA, 60.
Girls Team Results: 1. Community School of Naples, 442; 2. Bishop Verot High School, 400; 3. SFCA, 302; 4. Evangelical Christian School, 251; 5. Saint John Neumann High School, 164; 6. Oasis High School, 143; 7. Seacrest Country Day School, 100; 8. The Village School of Naples, 91; 9. Canterbury, 80.
THURSDAY
Cross Country
Region 3A-3: Fort Myers and Cape Coral had golden efforts in Lakeland.
The Seahawks' Declan Ziomek won the individual title with a time of 16:00.1 while Fort Myers won the team title as all three Green Wave runners finished in the top 15 and the Seahawks placed second with 83 points. Naples finished third with 111 points, Immokalee fifth with 151, and Barron Collier sixth with 183.
Joseph Koraya led Fort Myers by placing third with a 16:19.8 and he was followed by Jack Shea (9th, 16:55.8), Keaton Roberts (12th, 17:01.3), Timmy Schultz (13th, 17:02.7) and Craig Allard (14th, 17:06).
Cape Coral's William Canales took fifth in 16:45.7 followed by Martin Campusano (18th, 17:14.5), Jake Jacoby (22nd, 17:27.8), and Ryan Mitchinson (43rd, 19:09.3).
Naples' Hector Toro was fourth in 16:36.2 while fellow Golden Eagles Jack Marshall (16:57.8) and Richard Garcia (16:59.7) were 10th and 1tth, respectively. Dunbar's Olmar Bartolon took 15th in 17:09.5.
On the girls' side, Naples placed second with 66 points, Fort Myers third with 103 and Barron Collier fifth with 160.
The Golden Eagles' Tara Watkins finished fourth in 20:10.7, Annabelle Daly ninth (20:33.3), Amelia Jones 11th (20:39.1), Katelyn Stevens 22nd and Madison Bates 32nd. Olivia Olney led the Green wave in 13th (20:46.9) and Masha Dorofeev 16th (21:06.5).
South Fort Myers' Sofia Torres seventh in 20:19.8.
It was a big day for Barron Collier. This is the first season since 2009 that either the Cougars boys or girls qualified for regionals and both are now headed for states in Tallahassee next week for the first time since 2007.
Region A-3: Community School of Naples' Sergi Guzman finished as the runner-up in 16:17.41 and SFCA's Hayden Tank took third (16:28.46) in the boys' individual race while ECS' Ava Povich placed second (18:28.32) for the girls in Lakeland.
For the teams, the SFCA boys placed third overall with 89 points ahead of fourth-place Community School with 124 points. The CSN girls were the district runners-up with 133 points, far behind champion Cambridge Christian's 33 points. First Baptist took fourth (158), SFCA fifth (167) and Village School sixth (174).
On the boys' side, Donahue's Leonardo Borjon took sixth in 16:54.31 to qualify for state. CSN's Tyler Mastrangelo took eighth in 17:01.62 and SFCA's AJ Duda 12th in 17:11.37.
For the girls, Canterbury's Gabriella Santucci was fifth overall in 19:56.91, CSN's Sloan Wheeler seventh in 20:11.92 and SFCA's Tommie Bade eighth in 20:14.44. FBA's Carissa Heyn (20:29.73) and Katie Beam (20:30.33) finished 11th and 12th, respectively, while CSN's Audrey Sienna was 13th in 20:35.22.
Region 2A-3: Bishop Verot's Mackenzie DeLisle placed third overall (19:02) and Oasis' Jazlyn Forbes sixth (19:51.2) as the area's two top 10 girls finishes. Bishop Verot's Kylie Thomas added a 12th place followed by Estero's Gianna Robinson in 13th (20:54.6). In the team competition, Oasis placed fourth with 131 points.
For the boys, Andrew Marino took eighth in 17:06.9 and teammate Grayson Tubbs placed 12th in 17:30.1 as Cooper Banks (18th), Dennis Olsen (19th) and Anton Belcher (21st) packed in to lead the Vikings to a third-place finish in the region with 75 points, one behind second-place Calvary Christian.
Estero took eighth as a team, led by Max Sedmak in 17th place.
Girls Golf
Region 1A-13: Community School of Naples took home the district 13 title, led by medalist Sydney Young, shooting par even. Alayna Friedt was first runner up, one shot behind Young. Emma McKoan placed third with three-over round of 75.
All four of CSN’s qualifying scores were sub eighty rounds with Berkely Young shooting a four over 76 finishing in a tie for 5th. CSN's combined team score of 296 was 15 strokes better than 2nd place finisher Bishop Verot.
The Lady Seahawks travel to Clearwater on Tuesday for their Regional Tournament.
District 3A-12: The Gulf Coast girls won the title as all four of their golfers placed in the top 4 to score 303, well ahead of second-place Sarasota Riverview with 360.
The top 3 Sharks all shot 75 with tiebreakers leaving Payton Balliet first, Pearl Jenkins second and Madison Roach third. Sara Vitasek was fourth with a 78.
Ida Baker's Maggie Paolino was 11th with a 93.
WEDNESDAY
Girls golf
District 2A-13: Fort Myers took four of the top five spots on their way to the Class 2A-13 title (356), besting Island Coast (474) and Clewiston (517).
The Green Wave's Amelia Alonso took first with a score of 80. Her teammates Ariana Arias (82) and Seina Chappel (96) finished second and third, respectively.
Rounding out the top 10 were: 4. Ayden Dwenger, Island Coast 96; 5. Richelle Britto, Fort Myers 98; 6. Jada Kohlmeier, Mariner 99; 7. Lily Carosiello, Island Coast 111; 8. Olivia Branaman, Clewiston 115; 9. Isabella Lauzon, Cape Coral 115; 10. Megan Waters, North Fort Myers 119.
TUESDAY
Girls Bowling
The Cypress Lake girls dominated the District 6 tournament at Coral Lanes, rolling a 2423 to take the No. 1 seed in the double-elimination tournament and then sweeping the competition to take the title by downing Mariner and Oasis twice 3-1. Cypress Lake and Oasis advance to the state tournament in Orlando.
"I think we have one of the biggest district states, and so it's a real challenge to win a district," said Cypress Lake coach Todd Dusenberry. "In 13 years, this is the girls and Cypress Lake first district win. It's taken a lot of practice and a lot of determination to finally get there."
Oasis' Katarina Hagler won the district individual title with a 706 followed by Cape Coral's Brooke Pabst, who qualified for state as an individual with a 658. Katelynn Snyder also advances to state as an individual, taking seventh with a 507.
Other top scorers were Cypress lake's Samantha Gardenhouse in third with a 578 followed by Oasis' Lexi Lenius (571), Cypress Lake's Mackenzie Stouffer (566) and Cole Kennedy (516). Rounding out the top 10 were East Lee's Ella Lees in eighth with a 451, Cape Coral's Paige Williams (432) and Mariner's Paige Earley (423).
Girls Golf
District A-12: Community School of Naples claimed the district title with a 296 followed by Bishop Verot (311) and First Baptist (342).
CSN took four of the top five places with sophomore Sydney Young winning medalist honors with a 72 followed by sophomore Alayna Friedt (73), seventh-grader Emma McKoan (75) in third and seventh-grader Berkley Young in fifth (76).
Bishop Verot's Samantha Loninger was fourth with a 75 while teammate Amelia Loninger was sixth with a 76 and Morgan Franklin ninth (77). Rounding out the top 10 were Oasis' Riley Fritz in seventh with a 76, First Baptist's Eva Lye in eighth (76) and St. John Neumann's Catarina Petrovic in 10th (79). Freshman Caraline Hartfield from The Village School of Naples earned an individual spot to advance to regionals with an 85.
District 2A-14: Naples won the district title by 11 strokes over Barron Collier and 23 ahead of third-place Estero at Majestic Golf Club.
Naples' Eliza Kodak won the title by shooting 3-over while Cypress Lake's Jamie Lowry took second one stroke behind.
Rounding out the top 10 were: 3. Brandy Singleton (BC), 4. Rachel Tomodan (BC), 5. Olivia Cardeso (N), 6. Sadie Johnson (E), 7. Greta Olsson (N), 8. Sophia Reed (E), 9. Kacie Challman (BC) and Brittany Streitmatter (E).
Swimming
District 2A-10: Barron Collier picked up the sweep as the girls piled up 636 points to easily outdistance second-place Lemon Bay (238), while the Cougars boys had 521 points to runner-up Estero's 355.
"I'm very proud of both teams from top to bottom," Barron Collier coach Matt Nelson said. "Many swimmers had best times and we had a full roster of successful divers, four of which qualified for regionals. Our depth was instrumental to our success and will continue to be at the regional meet next week."
Barron had four girls win district titles in Catie Laur (200 IM), Carsyn Ide (100 fly), Emilia Mazzola (100 breaststroke) and Lauren Folz (diving) while all three girls relay teams won, adding Ella Bradshaw, Josie Lindstrom, Alyssa Srdanovic, and Rebecca Van't Hoff to the list of event winners. On the boys side, Sam Harvey won diving and Charlie Wu was the top individual swimmer, finishing second in both the 200 IM and the 100 breaststroke. Also, the boys 200 medley relay team of Gavin Davey, Charlie Wu, Jonny Sobczak, and Thor Warnken finished first.
Other individual winners include Estero's Cadence Fort in the 500 freestyle and Lely's Caelan Burt won both of her individual events, the 50 free and the 100 free.
Full results and regional qualifiers will be released after the two other districts in the region compete this weekend
MONDAY
Boys Bowling
The Cape Coral boys bowling team defeated Bishop Verot 3-2 in the final winner-take-all match, winning 203-175 in the deciding fifth game, to win the District 6 title Monday at Coral Lanes.
Bishop Verot, coming out of the four-team losers bracket, beat Cape Coral in the first match of the double-elimination format to force the final match but both teams will move on to the state finals in Orlando.
Cape Coral defeated Mariner and Cypress Lake to reach the final while Bishop Verot lost its first match to Cypress Lake but then beat Mariner and Cypress Lake to reach the final.
The Seahawks also scored the top two individual finishers with Joseph Letobar winning the overall title with a 676 followed by teammates Daniel Lynn with a 668. Cypress Lake's Devin Richards and Gateway's Tanner Abshire qualified for state as individuals, taking third and fourth respectively, with scores of 663 and 658.
Rounding out the top 10 were Paul Goliot (Cypress Lake, 651), Nickolas Tompson (Ida Baker) 650, Randy Ayala (Cape Coral, 649), Bo Laventure (Mariner, 620), Chris Davis (Bishop Verot) 608, Adam Belof (Bishop Verot, 608) and Chayce Stouffer (Cypress Lake, 601).
Boys Golf
District A-12: Bishop Verot had four of the top six golfers to roll to the district title at Old Corkscrew with a 303 team score, well ahead of runner-up St. John Neumann's 332.
The Vikings' Zach Loninger placed second overall with a 73 with teammate Dalton Payne fourth (76) and Kevin Kelly and Christian Allen both carding 77s, but Kelly took fifth on the tiebreaker.
St. John Neumann's Connor Shea won the individual title with a 72 and Seacrest's Jonathan Elter shot a 76 and beat Allen in the tiebreaker to place third. Rounding out the top 10 were Canterbury's Arnav Adi (78) in seventh followed by First Baptist's Ryan Kriz (79) with Village School's Luke Bower taking a tiebreaker for ninth over CSN's Spencer Ives as both shot 80.
For the teams, CSN placed third with a 340, followed by Canterbury (347), Seacrest (360) and First Baptist (366) to round out the top six.
District 2A-14: Barron Collier claimed the district title with a team score of 320, six strokes ahead of runner-up Estero at Majestic Golf Club in Lehigh. Naples High finished third with a team score of 340 as all three schools move on to the regional tournament at Plantation Preserve next Monday.
Individually, Braden Miller from Barron Collier was the medalist with a score of 73. Oliver Marshall from Naples finished second with a 74 and JD Dintino from Estero placed third with a 75.
Rounding out the top 10 were: 4. Jake Debroux, Naples 77; 5. Christopher O'Dell, Estero 80; 6. Aidan MacInnes, Barron Collier 81; 7. Adin McMaster, Estero 81; 8. Keegan McGinn, Bonita Springs 81; 9. Harrison White, Barron Collier 82; 10. Mason Stieler, Barron Collier 84.
2A-13: Fort Myers won the district title with a 334 at Babcock Ranch, besting North Fort Myers (391) and Mariner (410).
Cape Coral's Cole Tolbert won medalist honors with a 75 followed by four Fort Myers golfers in runner-up Benjamin O'Brien with a 77, Julian Alonso (81), Alex Munoz (88) and Don Kennedy (88). North Fort Myers' Kaleb NeSmith and Daniel Berkley took sixth and seventh, respectively, each shooting an 89.
3A-12: Gulf Coast won the district title with a 291 ahead of Sarasota Riverview's 300 and the Sharks' Noah Kent won the individual title with a 69, beating Riverview's Justin Zullin in a tiebreaker.
Palmetto Ridge's Jack Donovan beat Ryan Miller via tiebreaker for third place while the Sharks' each shot 75 to place seventh and eighth.
FOOTBALL
Fort Myers 48, East Lee 0
The Green Wave (5-2) went on the road and secured a District 3S-15 win over East Lee (0-7).
On Fort Myers' first possession, junior quarterback Christopher McFoley found sophomore Madrid Tucker for a 30-yard touchdown pass to put the Green Wave up 7-0. McFoley, wasting little time on his next possession, used his legs to scamper into the end zone on a 15-yard quarterback draw.
“Chris has been in our program and led our freshman team to an undefeated season," Fort Myers coach Sammy Sirianni said. II thought he did a good job tonight. When he goes our offense runs a lot smoother.”
The Green Wave led 35-0 at halftime despite a strong effort late in the second quarter by the Jaguars' defense that caused a turnover on downs as well as an interception.
The Green Wave will host Cypress Lake on a quick turnaround this Friday in the hopes of securing a win to build momentum for their big match-up against Dunbar the following week. The Jaguars will be looking to secure their first win of the season for their homecoming when they face 5-2 Barron Collier.
This article originally appeared on Fort Myers News-Press: See which SW FL teams won bowling, golf, cross country, swimming titles
