SIDELINES: Four Flagler Bulldogs teams advance to Super Bowl; FPC, Matanzas cross country teams advance to regionals | Observer Local News

All four Flagler Bulldogs tackle football teams will be playing in the Mid-Florida Football and Cheer Conference Super Bowl on Nov. 10 at the New Smyrna Beach Sports Complex.

The 6U (4-0) and 10U (8-0) teams went undefeated, while the 12U team went 7-1 and the 8U teams went 6-2.

The 6U team automatically advanced to the Super Bowl, while the other teams won their second-round games on Nov. 3 in Rockledge.

Two Flagler Bulldogs football players were named Mr. Mid-Florida in their age groups: CJ Perkins in 12U and Derron Green Jr. in 6U.

The 6U cheer team placed second and the 10U team placed third at the cheer competition on Oct. 19 in Kissimmee.

Flagler Bulldogs President RicShay Nelson said he was proud to see the 12U group advance to the Super Bowl for the third time.

''I can't put into words how proud I am of all these players," he said. "I've watched some of these kids play football since (they were) 4 and 5 years old, and to now see some of them going back to the Super Bowl next Sunday for the third time, I know we're doing something right. Next thing you'll know, they'll be playing high school and hopefully college football, and to say that our coaches and myself played a part of their success makes me sleep great at night.''

All four Flagler Palm Coast and Matanzas cross country teams advanced to regionals. FPC's girls placed third, while the boys were fifth at the District 1-4A meet at Bartram Trail. Peyton Cerasi (19:03.5) led the girls with a sixth-place finish. Arianna Slaughter (19:29.1) was ninth and Madison Lagarde (20:09.5) was 19th.

Braedyn Wormeck (16:56.7) placed 19th for the FPC boys. Brant Tarsitano was 21st, breaking 17 minutes for the first time at 16:59.6 and Jevin Luna (17:29.5) was 31st.

Matanzas' boys were fourth and the girls were sixth in the District 2-3A meet at Middleburg. Blaine Vogel (16:54.0) placed fourth in the boys race. Matt Ciardi (17:33.3) was 10th. Sara Van Buren (20:11.1) was one second off her personal record in finishing 10th in the girls race. Megan Rhee ran a PR time of 21:25.0 to place 24th, while Lupita Galeano was 28th in 21:43.9.

Matanzas defeated Menendez in both competitions on Oct. 30 in the Pirates' season-opening girls weightlifting match. The Pirates' Ryann Parkingson (101 pounds) won both Olympic and traditional competitions and set two school records (65 pounds in snatch, 160 in Olympic total). Jordan Crews won both titles at 139 and set school records in snatch (105) and Olympic total (250) and tied the school record in clean and jerk at 145 pounds.

Other Matanzas winners included 129-pounder Addison Hoeni in traditional, 154-pounder Zaliah King in both competitions, Sarah Sanchez (169) in both competitions and Kaitlin Kostal (199) in both competitions.

FPC hosted Fleming Island, New Smyrna Beach and DeLand on Oct. 30. The Bulldogs' winners were Madeline Brinker in both competitions at 110 pounds and Nya Williams in traditional at 129 pounds.