GREEN COVE SPRINGS - Clay High soccer ace, now flag football ace, Kirra Dodson found the end zone three times for Clay flag football coach Jared Moses and came back with two catches for scores as the Lady Blue Devils won 13-0 over Menendez in the district 8-1A championship game on Thurs., April 11 at Clay High School.

"We saw them with bigger girls near the line of scrimmage and that made our short crossing passes to Yuliana Garcia a little tougher for my quarterback, Teaghan Moses, to find," said Moses, now 10-1 with a 10th shutout win against just a 14-7 loss to unbeaten 2A runnerup Fleming Island High on April 1. "We knew Kirra could get open a little deeper and it was just a matter of Teaghan seeing her and delivering the ball and Kirra making the catch."

Dodson, on her 17th birthday, found the mark twice behind the Menendez secondary with one catch and run away from a defender and the second a lone grab in the corner of the end zone. Dodson did bobble a third would-be score in the second half amidst traffic in the end zone.

"I had it, but thought I was going to run into the other girl," said Dodson. "That was a bummer."

For Fleming Island, in Class 2A and the district 3-2A title game against Oakleaf, a defensive effort of interceptions by safety London Jenkins who had one returned to the five before she scored on the first play of offense and a second score off a 38-yard interception to the end zone to get a 20-0 lead and final 27-6 championship for the Golden Eagles over Oakleaf.

Jenkins accounted for three scores for Fleming Island with wide-out Addie Campolettano snagging a Jenkins six-yard pass for the 20-0 halftime score. Jenkins' pick-six in the third got the score to 27-0 before Oakleaf quarterback Jada Cumberbatch scored on a four-yard run to put six points on the board.

Fleming Island beat Orange Park 40-7 to advance. Orange Park finished at 4-6 overall. Oakleaf finished at 9-5 overall.

Fleming Island is 14-0 now, 16-1 last year with a lone loss in the 2A title game against Alonso 33-6, and the top seed in the Class 2A region playoff bracket with a region playoff opener against No. 8 Mandarin (9-5) on Thurs., April 18 at Fleming Island High School. Alonso is 16-0 and the No. 1 seed in Region 2 and ranked fifth in Class 2A with Fleming Island seventh. Western High, who Fleming Island beat in last year's state semifinal, is ranked number one in Class 2A.

At the opposite end of the Fleming Island bracket, No. 4 Fletcher (10-3) will host No. 5 Chiles (12-3), with the winners playing Tues., April 23 in the region semifinal.

Finishing the 2A regions on Fleming Island bracket are No. 2 Navarre (14-2) hosting No. 7 Ocala Forest (10-5) and No. 3 Pace (12-5) hosting No. 6 Niceville (9-6). Pace, Fletcher, Chiles and Fleming Island are all repeat region qualifiers.

In Class 1A, with Clay County sending three schools; Clay as the top seed, Middleburg as the sixth seed and Ridgeview as the seventh seed, opens playoffs of Wed., April 17 with Clay (10-1) hosting No. 8 Westside (7-5), No. 6 Middleburg (8-5) traveling to No. 3 Bradford (8-1) and No. 7 Ridgeview (6-8) heading to No. 2 ED White (14-3).

Middleburg lost a 7-0 match to Bradford in their district 4-1A final while Ridgeview lost a tough 21-13 to ED White in their district after beating Riverside 19-0 to advance. Ridgeview led 13-7 at the half with ED White scoring twice in the fourth quarter. Middleburg beat Baker County 27-6 to advance to the final against Bradford. Bradford beat Keystone Heights 6-0 to advance. Keystone Heights beat Baldwin 21-0 in the quarterfinals to advance.