Girls basketball: Two Freedom players pick colleges
Two more players from Freedom’s Class 7A regional champion team will continue playing basketball in college, according to coach Laurie Pacholke.Whitney Ivey, a guard, will play at Johnson & Wales...
View ArticleRiverview DL Brown settles on Indiana college
Riverview defensive lineman Antonio Brown has signed with Division III Franklin College in Indiana, according to Sharks coach Mike Thornton.The 6-foot, 250-pound Brown was a team captain and...
View ArticleFABC all-star girls basketball team has several local players
The Florida Association of Basketball Coaches released its 2013 all-star teams for Classes A-8A. Several players from the Tampa Bay area are on this year’s team. Here is a breakdown:Class 3A Tesha...
View ArticleEast Lake boys tennis coach Robert Carlbo named PTR Professional of the Year
East Lake boys tennis coach Robert Carlbo has been named the Professional Tennis Registry’s Professional of the Year. Carlbo received the award in a ceremony Thursday night in Hilton Head Island, S.C....
View ArticleMitchell's TJ Cortright signs with PHCC
Mitchell forward TJ Cortright signed with PHCC on Friday, Mustangs coach Jared St. Charles said in a text message. The 6-foot-4 senior was a key part in Mitchell’s balanced attack that won the Class...
View ArticleBaseball: Plant City hopes to regroup, make win stick this time
The triumphant bus ride home had been over for a while and Plant City baseball coach Michael Fryrear was settling in for the evening Thursday when he got a text message from his athletic director. The...
View ArticleHomeTeam Huddle: Q&A with Armwood's Sean Callahan
A brief Q&A with Armwood coach Sean Callahan, whose program appears free of Florida High School Athletic Association scrutiny for the first time since the fall of 2011:A lot of people are unsure...
View ArticleRegion softball finals roundup: PHU can't slow offensive-minded foe
PALM HARBOR — All season Palm Harbor University thrived with an offense that scored runs by the bushel, averaging nine per game. In Friday’s Class 8A region final, the Hurricanes ran into a team even...
View ArticleFHSAA dodges legislative bullet as bills die on final day
When the state’s legislative session ended Friday, few groups were happier than the Florida High School Athletic Association. Two bills critical of the FHSAA died after the Senate failed to vote on...
View Article3A state track: Springstead's Harris, River Ridge's Bales win fight...
Photo gallery JACKSONVILLE — It was a day made for ponchos, not personal records. One taste of Friday’s meteorological cocktail of gray skies, gusts and a ceaseless drizzle, and Springstead high jumper...
View Article3A state track: Terriers' Green golden on a gray day
photo gallery JACKSONVILLE — He embarked on the Class 3A meet with a state record in his sights. He ended it with pellets of rain in his face. Hoping to make a splash in the final meet of his prolific...
View ArticleColumn: Bromell will surpass you in a flash (with video)
JACKSONVILLE — It started with about 50 meters remaining in the 4x100-meter relay. And it started in the stands, where just about everyone was, umbrella or no umbrella, standing and braving a stiff...
View ArticleRegion softball finals roundup: Leopards off their game in shutout
BROOKSVILLE — For Hernando, this was a new experience. The Leopards haven’t been in the region finals since 2001, when then-coach Ernie Chatman led the program to back-to-back state semifinal berths....
View Article3A state track: Boca Ciega's Cook-Martin finally a golden girl
JACKSONVILLE — In six days, Chaise Cook-Martin will announce which college she is attending this fall. But first things first.“I wanted to go into college with a state title,” said Cook-Martin. And...
View ArticleHomeTeam Hot Shots: Nominations for April 27-May 3
HomeTeam Hot Shots Each week, our HomeTeam staffers will nominate male and female Hot Shot athletes from each of the counties we cover. These nominations span Saturday, April 27 through Friday, May 3....
View ArticleRegion softball final: Whiteside's first HR delivers another first for...
SARASOTA — Freedom’s Caroline Whiteside was just thinking to make contact when she stepped up to the plate in the seventh inning with the score tied 1-all. Normally a singles hitter who bunts at the...
View ArticleRegion baseball roundup: Steinbrenner’s first playoff win’s worth the wait
LUTZ — Logan LaPace could hardly settle himself long enough to sleep, he was so ready to take the mound Thursday. But when steady rain left Steinbrenner’s baseball field a virtual mud puddle, LaPace...
View ArticleRegion baseball roundup: Seminole loses steam at season’s end
LUTZ — Logan LaPace could hardly settle himself long enough to sleep, he was so ready to take the mound Thursday. But when steady rain left Steinbrenner’s baseball field a virtual mud puddle, LaPace...
View ArticleRegion baseball roundup: Early pitching change boosts Wiregrass Ranch
CLEARWATER — With the score tied at 2, Wiregrass Ranch coach Jeff Swymer made a tough decision to pull starter Zach Drury after just a third of an inning. But Drury’s lefty younger brother, Austin,...
View Article4A track: St. Petersburg vaulter at best in less-than-ideal conditions
Photo gallery JACKSONVILLE — As gusts of roughly 20 mph sent pellets of rain blowing horizontally across Hodges Stadium, St. Petersburg pole vaulter Cayman Ellis wondered if the atonement for which he...
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