Conlon, Eule named Hillsborough's top soccer players
APOLLO BEACH – Jesuit senior Michael Conlon had completely forgotten about the Alvarez awards for Hillsborough County’s top high school soccer players, so it took him a few minutes after entering the...
View ArticleState softball: Longtime friends lead Carrollwood Day
ODESSA — Savannah Bennett and Amanda Rose aren’t your typical teammates. It goes back a little farther than that. Almost to the beginning. From pre-school play dates to the playoffs, from playing make...
View ArticleState softball: Bloomingdale holds on for second crown
photo gallery VERO BEACH — Bloomingdale entered the postseason as a district runnerup and advanced by surviving three straight region games on the road that were all decided by two runs or fewer. On...
View ArticleArmy All-American Bowl announces local nominees
A handful of Tampa Bay players are among the 400 nominees for the U.S. Army All-American Bowl, event organizers announced Friday afternoon. Fifty-seven players from Florida made the first cut, which...
View ArticleGators offer Wharton WR Auden Tate
Wharton WR Auden Tate claimed one of his biggest offers Friday, from Florida. The 6-foot-4, 195-pound Tate is 247Sports’ No. 189 overall recruit for the class of 2015. The four-star prospect holds...
View ArticleHomeTeam Huddle: Lack of bodies for Bishop McLaughlin
SHADY HILLS — A lack of depth and bodies led Bishop McLaughlin back to independent play after its first and only season in a district. A new start includes a new coach. Former assistant Craig Moore,...
View ArticleState softball: Carrollwood Day fights, falters in 10th inning
photo gallery VERO BEACH — A big deficit late in extra innings proved too much to overcome for Carrollwood Day on Friday afternoon at Historic Dodgertown. The Patriots rallied in the first frame of...
View ArticleRegion baseball: Sunlake plan comes to fruition
When Dick Rohrberg took over at Sunlake six years ago, he preached the importance of playing team baseball. It was better to move runners over with bunts or hits to the opposite field than trying to...
View ArticleRegion baseball: Monahan’s grand slam leads East Lake to state
MELBOURNE — As Andrew Monahan dug into the batter’s box in the top of the ninth inning of East Lake’s Class 7A region final against Melbourne on Friday, he had only one thought.“Hit the crap out of...
View ArticleRegion baseball: Calvary Christian falls in 3A
FORT MYERS — Calvary Christian’s special season came to an end Friday night in the Class 3A, Region 3 final, but not before Johnny Chiaramonte launched a shot that nearly kept it alive a little...
View ArticleRegion baseball roundup: Berkeley Prep can’t quite cap a comeback
TAMPA — Berkeley Prep was forced to fight back from the very start. Fort Myers Bishop Verot took a three-run lead in the first inning of Friday’s Class 4A region final, and the Bucs — who staged a...
View ArticleHomeTeam Hot Shots: Nominations for May 2-9
Each week, our HomeTeam staffers nominate male and female Hot Shot athletes from each of the counties we cover. Then we turn the voting over to readers. These nominations span Saturday, May 3 through...
View ArticleHomeTeam Huddle: Spotlight on Nature Coast OL Christian Pellage
BROOKSVILLE — Whether the audience is recruiters from across the country or fast-food patrons at a recent Nature Coast fundraiser at Wendy’s, offensive tackle Christian Pellage always ends up as the...
View ArticleHomeTeam Hot Shots: Winners for May 2-9
HomeTeam Hot Shots A spotlight on the Times’ bay area players of the week. Female Hot Shot: Darby Bernaldo, BloomingdaleSport: Softball Skinny: The senior shortstop had been a solid hitter all season...
View ArticleRegion baseball: King doesn’t use inexperience as an excuse
TAMPA — His young King High baseball team had been learning as it went all season. Heading into the Class 6A, District 9 championship game against Jefferson on April 24, coach Jim Macaluso knew that,...
View ArticleHomeTeam Huddle: Plant QB tree bountiful
TAMPA — Rex Culpepper completed just 14 passes during Plant High School’s 2013 season as backup quarterback. But the day after he stood on the Dad's Stadium sideline and watched his Panthers fall to...
View ArticleQ&A with new PHU quarterback Brandon Swift
As a backup quarterback last season, Brandon Swift watched in obscurity as East Lake High School set numerous school records en route to its first appearance in the Class 8A state football semifinals....
View ArticleHomeTeam Huddle: Blake's Shavar Manuel goes from unknown to D-I darling
TAMPA — Colleges called Blake High School football coach Darryl Gordon all day Tuesday, just like they had the day before, and the day before that. They want to know about Shavar Manuel, the hulking...
View ArticleRegion baseball roundup: Jesuit, Sunlake defy odds
TAMPA — Others might have doubted Jesuit’s ability to make its 16th final four in program history after nine Tigers were suspended for the remainder of the 2014 baseball season in March. But...
View ArticleNotre Dame, USF extend offers, and Riverview to hold ceremony
A few quick recruiting updates on a Wednesday: Miami became the first program to offer Jefferson OT Jean Marcellus. The 6-foot-4, 282-pound prospect could become one of the area's top prospects in the...
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