KEYSTONE HEIGHTS - With five individual champions in Traditional and six in Olympics scoring, the Keystone Heights boys weightlifting team dominated their region 4-1A championship tournament Friday.
"We are doing what we do, the standard here is the standard," said Keystone Heights head weightlifting coach Leavy Alvarez, noting the historic three state titles won by former head coach Lantz Lowery, now at Palatka High School. "We want to go nine for nine for every lift. That's what we are supposed to do."
For Alvarez, with champions Dylan Curington at 119, Elijah Mize at 129, Colton Hollingsworth at 139, Kyle Perkins at 183, Ben Scott at 199 and Logan Madden-Moore at 238, the team scores finished with Keystone Heights ahead of district runnerup Father Lopez 84-66 with Crescent City third at 22 in Olympics scoring.
In Traditional, Curington, Mize, Hollingsworth, Perkins and Madden-Moore all won their second title of the day with Keystone Heights winning over Father Lopez 68-45 with Crescent City also tied at 45, but with Lopez awarded second on body weight totals.
Statewide region tournaments continue over the weekend with champions automatically advancing to the state championships in Lakeland May 6-8. The rest of the lineup for state is based on weight totals throughout the regions.