IronDawgs win APC national title

PEORIA, ILLINOIS -- The local Georgia IronDawgs weightlifting team, who won the State championship back in April, added more honors to its resume.

The IronDawgs won the 2009 APC National Powerlifting and Bench Press Championships.

Men and women of different ages and weights all came home with individual gold. The Superman of the Century team, mostly out of Florida, was the runner-up.

The Georgians got off to a good start on Friday when teenagers, Jacob Townsend, a North Hall alum, and Tyler Brown, a 2009 East Hall graduate, had record setting days.

Townsend set national records in his class (100 kg- about 220.5 lbs.) in the bench press-almost 353 lbs; and the deadlift- over 529 lbs.; and a world record in the squat at almost 557. His total of over 1405 lbs. (637.5 kg) was also a national record.

Brown, headed to Western Carolina to play football, set national and world marks in all three lifts: over 650 lbs. on the squat; over 551 on the bench; and almost 535 on the deadlift as well as total- over 1736 lbs. He was granted a 4th attempt on the bench and set that world record even higher with a press of 265 kg. (584.219 lbs.).

The strong performances for the IronDawgs continued on Saturday as Dahlonegaâ