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  • HomeTeam Huddle: Hernando expects Hart to play a bigger role

    HomeTeam Huddle: Hernando expects Hart to play a bigger role BROOKSVILLE One of Hernando’s biggest challenges this spring is to find a replacement for Tyrail Hawkins, the do-it-all athlete who lined up everywhere from quarterback to defensive back to returner and signed with Georgia Southern. • “We won’t have just that one guy,” Leopards coach Dwayne Mobley said. “We’ve got ...
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    Wed. May 08, 2013 at 3:49 p.m. | Matt Baker

  • Hudson hosting basketball shootout this weekend

    Hudson’s basketball team will host its West Pasco Shootout on Saturday with a day full of competition among teams from the North Suncoast and beyond. Here’s the schedule, from Cobras coach Jason Vetter:   9 a.m. – Wiregrass Ranch vs. Hudson 10:05 a.m.  – Nature Coast vs. Hudson 11:10 a.m. ...
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    Wed. May 08, 2013 at 11:07 a.m. | Matt Baker

  • Region baseball semifinals roundup: Wiregrass, Drury stun Steinbrenner

    Region baseball semifinals roundup: Wiregrass, Drury stun Steinbrenner LUTZ — Wiregrass Ranch junior Zach Drury had the utmost respect for nationally ranked Steinbrenner before he took the mound Tuesday night. Two hours later, Warriors coach John Crumbley thought just as highly of Drury, whose two-hit shutout led the Bulls to a stunning 4-0 victory in the Class 7A ...
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    Tue. May 07, 2013 at 11:04 p.m. | Don Jensen

  • Purdue football gives Hernando OL Connor Foradas his first offer

    Hernando County recruiting is having one of its biggest springs ever. Hernando lineman Connor Foradas is the latest piece of evidence. The 6-foot-5, 300-pound senior earned his first college offer Tuesday, from Purdue, Foradas said in a text message. Foradas was one of the top linemen for the Leopards last ...
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    Tue. May 07, 2013 at 10:49 p.m. | Matt Baker

  • HomeTeam Huddle: Change accompanies new Wiregrass regime

    HomeTeam Huddle: Change accompanies new Wiregrass regime WESLEY CHAPEL Soon after Wiregrass Ranch promoted assistant Mike Lawrence to turn around a struggling Bulls team, Lawrence reached out to a few experts in rebuilding programs: Bill Snyder, Bob Stoops and Mark Mangino. • Lawrence knows the trio from his playing days as a running back at Kansas State. ...
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    Tue. May 07, 2013 at 6:26 p.m. | Matt Baker

  • Tulane football is Rohan Blackwood's 10th offer

    Rohan Blackwood, Nature Coast DE (6-5, 208) The latest: The senior-to-be picked up his 10th offer Tuesday after Tulane stopped by campus, Sharks coach Charles Liggett said. The Green Wave hasn’t always recruited Tampa Bay heavily but will join USF in the new-look Big East starting in 2014. Offers: UMass, ...
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    Tue. May 07, 2013 at 12:32 p.m. | Matt Baker

    • Recruit: Rohan Blackwood
      Mississippi State, University of Massachusetts, University of Minnesota, University of South Florida, University of Wisconsin

  • FAU offers Applefield, UMass football offers Hernando's Jackson

    Two North Suncoast prospects landed scholarship offers Monday. UMass became the second program to offer Hernando LB/RB Jeremiah Jackson, the Leopards senior said in a text message. Purdue has also offered Jackson, a hard-hitting 6-foot, 215-pound all-North Suncoast prospect. Last fall, he rushed for almost 500 yards while racking up ...
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    Mon. May 06, 2013 at 6:51 p.m. | Matt Baker

    • Recruit: Marcus Applefield
      Florida Atlantic University, Marshall University, Rutgers University, University of Massachusetts
    • Recruit: Jeremiah Jackson
      Purdue University, University of Massachusetts

  • HomeTeam Hot Shots: Winners for April 27-May 3

    HomeTeam Hot Shots    A spotlight on the Times’ bay area players of the week. Female Hot Shot: Chaise Cook-Martin, Sr., Boca Ciega Sport: Track Skinny: For three years, Cook-Martin waited to claim gold in the triple jump, her signature event. After clearing 38 feet, 4 inches in Friday’s Class ...
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    Mon. May 06, 2013 at 6:21 p.m. | Times Staff

  • HomeTeam Huddle: Fivay's Sutton among North Suncoast's top returning RBs

    HomeTeam Huddle: Fivay's Sutton among North Suncoast's top returning RBs Fivay has plenty of holes to plug after a 6-4 season, losing all-North Suncoast quarterback Tyler Degen, star receiver Andrew Meyer and key parts of the offensive line. All of these questions fade to the background once you talk to coach Chris Taylor about his starting tailback. Rising senior Davion ...
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    Mon. May 06, 2013 at 6:02 p.m. | Matt Baker

  • Region baseball: The arms behind the aces

    Region baseball: The arms behind the aces With only one high school playoff game last week, area baseball coaches didn’t have much of a decision to make. They just handed the ball to their top pitchers and let them do their thing. This is the week coaches earn their paychecks. Do they throw their ace in Tuesday’s ...
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    Mon. May 06, 2013 at 4:57 p.m. | Times Staff

  • Florida Gators commit Christian Arroyo named FACA District 10 MVP

    Hernando SS and Florida commit Christian Arroyo has been named the District 10 MVP by the Florida Athletic Coaches Association, Leopards coach Tim Sims said Monday. Arroyo has brought a string of pro scouts to Brooksville. He ranks among Tampa Bay’s top talents with a .515 batting average, 10 home ...
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    Mon. May 06, 2013 at 3:56 p.m. | Matt Baker

  • Region 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, took over and shut out Countryside the rest of the way as the Bulls continued ...
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    Sat. May 04, 2013 at 9:11 p.m. | Michael Hinman

  • HomeTeam 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. Winners get a free T-shirt and bragging rights over every other school in the area. Read up ...
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    Sat. May 04, 2013 at 12:35 p.m. | Times Staff

  • Region 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. Whether it was the nerves attached to the magnitude of the Class 5A region final or the condition of ...
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    Fri. May 03, 2013 at 11:15 p.m. | Derek J. LaRiviere

  • Column: Bromell will surpass you in a flash (with video)

    Column: 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 wind and pelting rain. Whoomp …whoomp…whoomp… It’s a track tradition, this whoomping, and a warning of sorts ...
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    Fri. May 03, 2013 at 10:37 p.m. | John C. Cotey

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