Thursday

TRACK AND FIELD

Bishop Verot’s Wyatt Whalen won the state Class 2A shot put title Thursday at the FHSAA State Championships in Jacksonville.

Whalen’s 16.48m put gave him the title over second-place Dylan Freet of Tocoi Creek (16.32m). Only one other competitor had a put better than 16 meters.

The Vikings’ Grayson Tubbs came in third in the 800, Logan Schwartz fourth in javelin, and Ryan Peterson fifth in the discus.

In the team standings, Bishop Verot was seventh overall in a field of 55 teams.

Both Bishop Verot’s girls’ and boys’ 3200 meter relay teams placed fourth.

Mackenzie De Lisle was fourth in the girls’ 3200 meters.

The Vikings girls finished 16th overall out of 57 schools.

FHSAA STATE CHAMPIONSHIPS

At the University of North Florida, Jacksonville

CLASS 2A

Area top-8 finishers

GIRLS

3200 meter (4×800) relay: 4. Bishop Verot (Samantha Cuini, Erika Romero, Caroline Muddell, Hannah Manibo, Julia Reitz, Kylie Roman, Daphne Dalton) 9:31.44. 1600: 8. Julia Reitz (BV). 5:07.65. 3200: 4. Mackenzie De Lisle (BV) 10:55.26. Triple jump: 8. Raven Gadson (BV) 11.12m.

BOYS

3200 meter (4×800) relay: 4. Bishop Verot (Stephen Prendiville, Anton Becher, Zachary Zielke, Marino, Tubbs, Dennis Olsen, Zachary Engel) 8:04.70. 800: 3. Grayson Tubbs (BV) 1:56.52. Javelin: 4. Logan Schwartz (BV) 52.68m. Discus: 5. Ryan Peterson (BV) 48.58m. Shot put: 1. Wyatt Whalen (BV) 16.48m.

CLASS 3A

Friday

(* automatic qualifier)

BOYS

CAPE CORAL: Declan Ziomek* and William Canales (3200 meters); boys’ 3200 meter (4×800) relay team (Canales, Nazayer Franco, Jake Jacoby, Ethan Lukow, Ryan Mitchell and Ziomek)

IDA BAKER: Kaiden Crossdale* (high jump)

ISLAND COAST: Ofil Ramos (javelin)

NORTH FORT MYERS: Dustin Castagna (pole vault)

GIRLS

ISLAND COAST: Avery Brincat (javelin)

NORTH FORT MYERS: Giovanna Molloy (pole vault), Kennedy Seidl (javelin)

SOFTBALL

REGION 5A-3

Friday’s region championship

North Fort Myers at Parrish Community, 7 p.m.

REGION 3A-3

Friday’s region championship

Bishop Verot at Calvary Christian, 7 p.m.

SPRING FOOTBALL

May 25

Jamboree: Cardinal Mooney and DeSoto County at Island Coast, 6 p.m.

May 26

North Miami Beach at Bishop Verot, 7 p.m.

Ida Baker at Gateway, 7 p.m.

Mariner at Dunbar, 7:30 p.m.

No game scheduled

Cape Coral, Oasis