Expert Weightlifting Advice

HAWKINSVILLE ? Even without its top four weightlifters, the Americus-Sumter weightlifting team finished second out of 30 teams that spanned 22 counties at the Area 7 Weightlifting Meet on March 6 in Hawkinsville.

UMATILLA ? The Villages High School boys weightlifting team defeated Umatilla 46-44 Wednesday afternoon at Umatilla High School.

Columbia High notched its first home win early in the weightlifting season in a tri-meet on Thursday in Lake City.

VALERIE DEW / The Valley Chronicle HEAVY METALS: Katie, left, and Spencer Moorman, right, show off the metals they?ve won in weightlifting competitions. Spencer won a gold metal and Katie won a bronze in the 2010 National Junior Championships in Minnesota in February.

Carthage High School?s weightlifting team, fueled by an overall team effort, continued competition on Saturday at Kearney High School.

PALM SPRINGS ? Palm Springs High School's boys' track and field coach Randy Small has been around a while and he hasn't seen the Indians do this before.

SARASOTA ? The summer after his freshman year, Drakkar Wilson received weighlifting equipment from his father.

By JIM BROCKMAN Correspondent Spectators could hear the grunting, groaning, yelling and what sounded like anvils being dropped from the ceiling as soon as they pulled into the parking lot adjacent to the gymnasium.

MONDAY: Pre-Contest Solo/Ensemble, 5 p.m., BHS auditorium; Special Olympics Basketball tournament in Springer Gym, 6 p.m. WEDNESDAY: Johnson Community College visit, 9 a.m.

Milton High's Jernigan eyeing a state weightlifting championship after a third-place finish in 2009.