Winter sports hit the home stretch

 

 

By Ryan Seeloff

Here's a little update on the winter varsity sports seasons as they wrap up for the year. We have representatives from Brevard County in each sport and we'll continue to follow them as long as they manage to stay alive.

First up we have the West Shore Jr/Sr High Boys Soccer team who has made it to the 2A Final where they will play Berkeley Prep on 2/17/12 at Corbett Stadium (USF) at 7:30 p.m. (read about West Shore's last game at the bottom of this page).

On Valentine's Day Night we have five girls basketball teams playing to advance to the finals. Here is the schedule (all games begin at 7p.m.)

Girls Basketball Regional Semifinals

2A- Merritt Island Christian at Foundation Academy

3A- Melbourne Central Catholic at Trinity Prep

5A- Lake Nona at Titusville

6A- Edgewater at Melbourne (We'll see you there)

7A- Evans at Viera

The boys take to the courts on Thursday evening for regional quarterfinal action (all games begin at 7 p.m.)

Boys Basketball Regional Quarterfinals

3A- Melbourne Central Catholic at First Academy and Trinity Prep at Florida Air

4A- Satellite at Lake Highland Prep and Jones at Cocoa Beach

5A- Auburndale at Rockledge and Merritt Island at Lake Wales

6A- Mainland at Heritage and Palm Bay at Edgewater

7A- Winter Springs at Viera (We'll see you there)

 

Congratulations to the following wrestlers that have made it to the State Finals later this week (2/17 & 2/18) in Lakeland.  Click this link http://www.fhsaa.org/sports/wrestling for more information and results from the tournament.

1A

106- Pound Class- Tim Bunting (Cocoa), Travis Ahrens (Titusville), Steve Arce (Titusville)

113-Pound Class- Donald Gahres (Space Coast)

120-Pound Class- Philip Gross (Cocoa Beach)

126-Pound Class- Antonio Landono (Space Coast)

132-Pound Class- Mat Watson (Cocoa Beach), Trace Woxberg (Cocoa), Matt Seymour (Titusville)

138-Pound Class- Devin Cayton (Astronaut), Nick Houston (Satellite)

145-Pound Class- Josh Teartt (Space Coast), Julien Pinelli (Satellite), Jonathan Pickens (Astronaut)

152-Pound Class- Dean Porreca (Satellite), Tim Goff (Astronaut)

160-Pound Class- Shaun Dauphinais (Astronaut)

170-Pound Class- Mike Seymour (Titusville)

195-Pound Class- Conner Horvath (Rockledge)

2A

106-Pound Class- David Richards (Bayside)

120-Pound Class- Joe Miuccio (Melbourne)

126-Pound Class- Shamir Dominique (Palm Bay), Jeffery Bayonne Jr (Heritage)

132-Pound Class- Isaac Garcia (Heritage)

138-Pound Class- Steven Vonniederhauser (Palm Bay)

145-Pound Class- Casey Malloy Jr. (Heritage), Michael Everette (Palm Bay)

160-Pound Class- Hunter Stewart (Palm Bay)

182-Pound Class- Joseph Kennedy (Palm Bay)

195-Pound Class- Grant Eller (Melbourne)

220-Pound Class- Aaron Berynadott (Palm Bay), Rodney Winfrey (Eau Gallie)

285-Pound Class- Derek Munnings (Heritage)

3A

152-Pound Class- Dalton Rennie (Viera)

160-Pound Class- Jonathan Kenney (Viera)

*Coverage of West Shore Junior/Senior High's post season from Lyn Dowling*

Sometimes, smarts and steadiness beats size and strength. If they didn’t, West Shore Junior/Senior High School’s boys soccer team would not be headed to the FHSAA Class 2A state championship next Friday night at the University of South Florida in Tampa.

The Wildcats defeated Bolles 1-0 in Jacksonville Friday in the state semifinal, a match viewed by 130 fans from the soccer-crazed school in Melbourne, who traveled by bus to the private school in North Florida, which has one of the better athletic programs in the state.

The match was scoreless through the first and most of the second halves, the Wildcats faced by a team that coach Scott Armstrong called “bigger and much stronger than we were.” But after Bolles made some changes to its defensive alignment, Armstrong shifted the Wildcats’ offensive plans to attacks on the left.

In the 59th minute, the changes paid off and Kevin Kurtz danced through the home team’s midfield and defenders, took on his last man one-on-one, cut inside and fired home from 18 yards.

“For me, as a coach, (the match) was tactically perfect,” Armstrong said.

He believes West Shore is well-placed to defeat its opponent in the final, which will be either American Heritage of Delray or Berkeley Prep.

“We work harder than any other team and I am so proud of the boys,” he said. “This was a huge win for us because Bolles is a goliath program. This was massive.”

 

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