Friday

FOOTBALL

Semifinal

Bishop Verot 44, Estero 6: Even before halftime, the only question was who would be coming to Bishop Verot (11-1) for next week’s Region 2S-4 title game.

The Vikings already had a 41-0 lead on Estero, setting up the 10th running clock this season for Bishop Verot.

That question took a while to answer. Updates were not exactly flowing from the Sarasota Booker-Lemon Bay semifinal game.

The answer turned out to be that the Vikings would be taking on a hot ‘dog.

Underdog Booker (8-4), having already stunned region second seed Fort Meade in the first round, eliminated No. 3 Lemon Bay 14-0 on Friday.

There was this one other question for Vikings fans: Just how much damage would new University of Michigan quarterback commit Carter Smith do to the Wildcats?

The answer was: Plenty.

Before halftime, on his touchdown passes to Matt Turner alone, Smith had thrown for 210 yards. He had set a new Lee County career scoring plays record (114), and blown past 7,000 passing yards in 2 1/2 seasons.

Smith’s total of 114 touchdown plays (73 passes, 41 runs) moved him past former South Fort Myers star Dallas Crawford.

As for Turner, four touchdown receptions — including a 99-yarder — and a total of 238 yards on seven catches was a good month’s work for a lot of high school receivers.

It wasn’t all Smith and Turner. Ryan Gadson returned a punt 80 yards for a TD, and Macrae Thompson ran in from 4 yards out. Thomas Lilly added a 22-yard Vikings field goal at the end of the third quarter.

The fourth-seeded Wildcats ended 9-3, with two of their three losses to Bishop Verot.

CROSS COUNTRY

FHSAA State Championships

Bishop Verot’s Mackenzie De Lisle finished second Friday in the Class 2A girls cross country state championship meet in Tallahassee.

De Lisle’s time was 17:52.2. She paced the Vikings to a fourth-place finish in the team standings. Verot’s top five runners all finished in the top 100.

Jazlyn Forbes of Oasis also had a strong performance at Apalachee Regional Park, crossing the line sixth in a time of 18:38.4. She made the state meet as an individual runner.

Bishop Verot’s boys also came in fourth, paced by Andrew Marino (11th in 16:21.7). All five Vikings runners scoring points for their team were in the top 58.

Truman Wiedner of Oasis, an individual competitor, was 155th in a field of 240 runners.

In Class 3A girls, Cape Coral finished 22nd of 32 teams, with North Fort Myers 29th. The Red Knights’ Alexis Neumann was the top local finisher, crossing the line in 21:08.1, 85th overall.

Naples was 10th in the girls team results.

The Cape Coral boys were 13th in the team standings. Individually, the best local finisher was Angel Cruz of Mariner, an individual runner coming in 51st in 16:58.7.

Three other Southwest Florida boys teams finished in the top 10. Naples was second, Fort Myers sixth and Gulf Coast 10th.

Joseph Koraya of Fort Myers came in seventh overall with a time of 15:51.1.

CLASS 2A

At Apalachee Regional Park, Tallahassee

GIRLS

Team (32): 1 Bishop Kenny 69. 2 Bolles 103. 3 Episcopal 165. 4 Bishop Verot 249. 5 Carrollton 290. 6 Ransom Everglades 299. 7 King’s Academy 304. 8 Berkeley Prep 311. 9 Fernandina Beach 327. 10 Monteverde Academy 334.

Individual (235): 1 Annabella Tomasic (LHP) 17:32.9. 2 Mackenzie De Lisle (BV) 17:52.2. 3 Addison Dempsey (CM) 18:01.9. 4 Margaret Bartlow (NBH) 18:09.5. 5 Grace Aldrich (Carr) 18:27.4. 6 Jazlyn Forbes (O) 18:38.4. 7 Sofie Stam (Bol) 18:39.6. 8 Avery Fronrath (KA) 18:40.2 9 Estella Bruneau (Bol) 18:40.3. 10 Hannah Latif (BP) 18:42.5. Also: 31 Gianna Gyurich (BV) 19:44.6. 64 Caroline Ward (BV) 20:43.8. 80 Caroline Muddell (BV) 21:05.4. 111 Erika Romero (BV) 21:34.0. 214 Jocelyn Sweeney (BV) 24:08.3. 231 McKinley Parker (BV) 26:15.6.

BOYS

Team (32): 1 Bolles 56. 2 Bishop Kenny 120. 3 Astronaut 131. 4 Bishop Verot 175. 5 Edgewood 203. 6 Ransom Everglades 365. 7 Bishop Moore 306. 8 Episcopal 317. 9 Mater Lakes 322. 10 Cocoa Beach 350.

Individual (240): 1 David Sierra (RE) 15:19.5. 2 Christopher Joost (Bol) 15:21.9. 3 Liam Jordan (BP) 15:38.65. 4 Henry Lewis (Wak) 16:04.2. 5 Andrew Marello (Wolf) 16:05.9 6 Juan Pablo Castillo-Zima 16:098.8. 7 Marc Gonzalez (ML) 16:10.6. 8 Kal Meffe (LHP) 16:17.1. 9 Parker Adams (Bol) 16:21.5. 10 Andrew Marino (BV) 16:21.7. Also: 28 Dennis Olsen (BV) 16:53.3. 29 Zachary Zielke (BV) 16:54.3. 57 Thomas Eichten (BV) 17:21.9. 63 Zachary Engel (BV) 17:25.6. 89 Rafael Casillas (BV) 17:45.7. 155 Truman Wiedner (O) 18:44.0. 224 Cael Horton (BV) 20:15.0.

CLASS 3A

At Apalachee Regional Park, Tallahassee

GIRLS

Team (32): 1 Dillard 46. 2 Ponte Vedra 66. 3 Lourdes 142. 4 Satellite 147. 5 Osceola Seminole 194. 6 Ocala Vanguard 256. 7 Lake Minneola 256. 8 Naples 308. 9 American Heritage 244. 10 Fort Walton Beach 345. Also: 14 Fort Myers 460. 22 Cape Coral 546. 29 North Fort Myers 713.

Individual (230): 1 Christiana Coleman (D) 17:53.4. 2 Ashley Fitzgerald 18:05.0. 3 Shynah Collins (D) 18:26.5. 4 Lindy White (PV) 18:28.9. 5 Miley Gill (D) 18:29.2. 6 Cheyenne Thomas (Tav) 18:30.9. 7 Masha Dorofeev (FM) 18:45.2. 8 Elle Mehltretter (SO) 18:48.0. 9 Daisy ross (PV) 18:50.5. 10 Alessandra Perez (L) 18:52.8. Also: 85 Alexis Neumann (NFM) 21:08.1. 100 Skyla Stevens (NFM) 21:32.1. 121 Makiah Michaels (CC) 21:55.4. 128 Hannah Green (CC) 22:05.0. 143 Mia Moran (CC) 22:14.4. 166 Isabella Hull (NFM) 22:45.9. 170 Madison Sanchez (CC) 22:56.3. 207 Audrey Gross (CC) 24:06.1. 208 Cay Stevens (NFM) 24:06.9. 219 Abigail Cudnik (CC) 24:46.7. 227 Charli Hilt (NFM) 26:06.6. 230 Jaidyn Flanagan (NFM) 27:49.2.

BOYS

Team (32): 1 Belen Jesuit Prep 33. 2 Naples 146. 3 Leon 150. 4 Fleming Island 159. 5 Ponte Vedra 220. 6 Fort Myers 266. 7 Tampa Jesuit 272. 8 Satellite 355. 9 Wesley Chapel Cypress Creek (362). 10 Gulf Coast 389. Also: 13 Cape Coral 428.

Individual (238): 1 Patrick Koon (TL) 15:02.1. 2 Marcelo Mantecon (BJP) 15:09.9. 3 Graham Myers (FI) 15:23.32. 4 Andrew Beroset (GB) 15:25.0. 5 Joseph Ruiz (BJP) 15:40.2 6 Justin Ruiz (BJP) 15:49.3. 7 Joseph Koraya (FM) 15:51.1. 8 Joshua Ruiz (BJP) 15:51.5. 9 Clayton Knight (OV) 15:53.0. 10 William Poe (Z) 15:55.7. Also: 51 Angel Cruz (M) 16:58.7. 69 Jake Jacoby (CC) 17:08.7. 78 Nazayer Franco (CC) 17:14.0. 87 Zander Forneris (CC) 17:18.4. 105 Ryan Mitchinson (CC) 17:35.7. 148 Isaac Towenko (CC) 18:15.9. 196 Ben Westerhouse (CC) 19:04.0.

Ida Baker 3, Imagine School North Port 1: Aubrey Tansey led the Bulldogs (3-3) with a pair of goals.

North Fort Myers 9, Bonita Springs 0: Kenlee Dominguez scored four goals and made two assists, while Megan Bergin added a hat trick as North rolle to the win. The Red Knights (3-0) kept Bonita winless (0-4). Sophia Kerns had a goal and three assists, and Evie McCarthy also scored.

BOYS SOCCER

North Fort Myers 2, Bonita Springs 1: The Red Knights are 4-0 after edging the 1-2-1 Bull Sharks.

Estero 2, Island Coast 1: Diego Gonzalez’s assist set up Diego Quijada’s goal for the Gators (1-3). Damian Llano made eight saves out of 10 shots on goal.