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mhs spring football by andrew O’Brien | Staff Writer

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u.S. maSTErS by andrew O’Brien | Staff Writer

In golf, one day you’re up, and the next you’re down. Take Ty Capps, our hope as a tour player.

At a Hoot-ers Tour event in South Car-olina, he fin-ished among the top five, m a k i n g $1,500. The next week, a qualifying spot for the U.S. Open was in his back pocket with one hole to go. That’s

when the downer hit. He went triple-bogey, missing the cut by three shots.

Shay Hall is yet to get the downer — she plays that well. Her first hole-in-one will be an upper for years. Hall, playing at Grand Reserve with the wom-en’s league, nailed the 10th hole from 86 yards out while using a 9-iron. Sue Ammerman and Ann Beach witnessed the feat.

Grand Haven’s Walt McRae, a former top executive with Ford Motors, has had his share of downers. One that drove him up a wall was the putting stick. He couldn’t putt the ball in the hole if it stood up and waved at him.

An outing with the Matanzas Association at Cypress changed that. He took first place in the B flight by six shots. Then he walked off with closest-to-the-pin on No. 5 from 8 feet 6 inches. To prove the demons had left, he waltzed out on the ninth hole and struck on target from 11 feet 7 inches. He closed out the day by earning third-place dough on No. 14, with Al Parker and Joel Schwalb ahead of him. You get those awful downers, and then all of a sudden you can putt bet-ter than Phil Mickelson. I was going to use another big name but that might irritate some ...

Pro golfers from the Grand Club don’t get many downers. Take South Hampton. It was all smiles and dances. Andrew Dailidonis, Charles Bisignano, Cindy Jackson, Mike Tsour-karis, Eric Gonzales and Alan Howell joined 18 amateurs in tournament play. Howell shot two under par on his first look at the course. That led his team of Jake Jacoby, Kee Rhee and Stew Manthey to a thumping minus-26 win. Jackson had a siz-zling back nine, while Gonzales nailed down two closest-to-the-pins.

Uppers and downers are going to happen. Maybe you are like me: The barn is so full of down-ers there’s no room for uppers. But we golfers know that will change. Won’t it?

Listen to the Jock MacKenzie Golf Show at 7:05 a.m. Sundays, on WNZF 106.3 FM or 1550 AM.

Pirates test watersmatanzas tested the spread in a 35-7 loss to Orange Park.

Three Palm Coast Dynoswim members finished in the top 10 in the National Short Course Swimming Championships.

Next upperto come soon ... we hope

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The game started out 180 degrees dif-ferently from the way coach Keith Lagocki and the rest of the Matanzas High School football team would have liked. The Pi-rates, who competed in their first game since implementing the new spread offense this spring, showed their youth in the com-mand of the new playbook, and fell to to Orange Park High School 35-7 Friday, May 21, at Orange Park.

Lagocki said he kept his first-stringers in for most of the first half, when the team was losing 28-7 after the first two quarters to the Raiders, who did not lose last year until the state Class 6-A semifinals.

“We wanted to take a team on in the spring that was going to really challenge us,” Lagocki said. “It forced us to show why we went to this offense. So we can play with the bigger, stronger teams.”

Despite the score, Lagocki saw glimpses of what the team is capable of.

Tim Morely, a transfer student who will play his first season as a senior in August for the Pirates, went 8-for-17 passing for 112 yards and one touchdown pass. How-ever, six of the nine incomplete passes were dropped by potential receivers. The down-fall: Morely threw three interceptions.

“We are in the learning phase in all as-pects of the offense, including catching the ball,” Lagocki said. “We’ve probably thrown

the ball more in these three weeks of spring than in the first four years of varsity foot-ball combined.”

The Pirates showed their jitters in the first few minutes of the game. Their first snap was called dead because of a false start. That’s something that Lagocki said rarely happened in practice. After getting pushed back five yards, Morely’s first pass of the game was an interception that the Raiders returned for a touchdown. After the ensuing kickoff, Morely completed a pass to wide receiver Jay Jones, who then lost a fumble after losing the ball while get-ting tackled.

Lagocki was pleased, for the most part, with how his team performed following the rough start. More precisely, he thought the team played well defensively.

“I really thought we matched the physi-cality of Orange Park,” he said. “In years past, we may have not done that. We went toe-to-toe with them on defense.”

Lagocki said the game against Orange Park was the first step in preparing for the fall schedule.

“We were able to come away with no false pretenses,” he said. “We are still in the de-velopment process in putting our new of-fense together. We’re at about one-third of where we want to be, but the game was a great measuring stick.”

Lagocki added: “We’re heading in the right direction, but we have a ton of work to do.”

The Pirates have reached their state limit of 20 spring practices, and will continue their training June 14. Throughout the summer, the team will compete in a 7-on-7 passing league at DeLand High School.

Meet the members of Dynoswim, a competitive swim team in the U.S. Masters Swimming Organization.

Glenn Partelow coaches the team, which has been to-gether seven years in Palm Coast. He and two other Palm Coast residents were among the field of 2,000 18-and-older competing May 20 to May 23 at the National Short Course Swimming Championships, in Atlanta.

Partelow placed seventh in his age group of 60 to 64 years old in the 1,650-yard freestyle with a time of 21 minutes, 30 seconds. This race is the longest event in the competition, and is the length of the pool 66 times. Par-telow also finished seventh in the 200-yard butterfly and ninth in the 500-yard freestyle.

Partelow and Sheryl Watkins are the two coaches and members of the team, and the third to compete was Kate Sussman. Watkins placed ninth in her age group of 45-49 in the 200-yard backstroke.

Last year, Partelow and Watkins competed in the All-Florida Senior Games in Coral Springs, winning seven gold medals, three silver and one bronze between the two.

At the HammerHead Ocean Marathon, in Jacksonville, Partelow took first place among men older than 60 in the 2.5-mile swim in the ocean. Watkins took first place for overall women in the 2.5-mile swim. Sussman placed first in the 1.25-mile ocean swim.

Dynoswim competes in events over the course of the year, both throughout Florida and in various parts of the country. The team comprises eight swimmers, and it practices 6 to 8 p.m. Monday, Wednesday and Friday at the Frieda Zamba Swimming Pool. Anyone 18 years old and up can join. Contact Glenn Partelow at 586-3437 or via e-mail at gpartelow1@cfl.rr.com.

marissa Thompson, left, takes flight in a lay-up attempt over Bulldog miranda gwinn, at the inaugural Battle of the County basketball game between Buddy Taylor and Indian Trails middle schools Friday, May 14. BTMS won the game 18-13. In the boy’s game, the Mustangs won 42-33.

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+ apperson named coachMatanzas High School has announced

don apperson to be the new Pirates varsity baseball coach. Apperson has a long history of working with students in a variety of capacities, and was one of the original founders of the Police Athletic League. He has been coaching in Flagler County since 1991, and served as assistant baseball coach for Flagler Palm Coast High School from 1991 to 1996. Apper-son also coached Flagler PAL travel teams from 1996 to 2005. At MHS, Apperson has been assistant coach since 2007.

+ force wins third titleFlagler Force, an under-12 girl’s soccer

team that is part of the Flagler Premier Soccer Club in Flagler County, won its third championship in seven months, thanks to playing well at the BSI Cup Tournament in Kissimmee, May 15 and May 16.

The Force lost its first match of the tournament to rivals Ormond Beach Waves, but managed to rebound to win their next two games against ACYS Spirit United and Hunters Creek Makos.

In the finals, the Force would get a sec-ond chance at the Waves, who made it to the finals winning all three games. How-ever, the tide would change on the Waves in the championship, and the Force won 1-0.

“These young ladies left it all on the field and represented Flagler County,” said

+ Shellings signsCorey Shellings, standout on the Fla-

gler Palm Coast High School track team, signed his national letter of intent May 18 for Kansas City Kansas Community College.

Shellings, who earned a scholarship, placed fifth in the 200-meter spring at the state meet this year with a time of 21.58 seconds. Also, his 10.65-second 100-meter dash broke a 21-year school record set by Wayne Clements in 1989.

Corey Shellings Courtesy photo