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  • Hundreds gather to remember former LOL coach John Benedetto

    Hundreds gather to remember former LOL coach John Benedetto LUTZ — His Carrollwood Village backyard was a resplendent testament to his botanical side. John Benedetto, son of a Long Island gardener, cultivated roses and run-block schemes in equal profusion. “He could take an old swingset and turn it into a botanical miracle,” Al Claggett, who met Benedetto at the ...
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    Sat. April 27, 2013 at 4:04 p.m. | Joey Knight

  • Region softball roundup: Chargers' Tyler endures pain for win

    DOVER — The only thing higher than Sammy Tyler’s strikeout total Thursday was her pain threshold. Pitching with a partially torn left quad, the Strawberry Crest junior grimaced her way through a masterpiece: 12 strikeouts, two hits, no walks in a 5-0 victory against Palmetto in the Class 6A region ...
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    Thu. April 25, 2013 at 11:37 p.m. | Joey Knight

  • 3A-3 region track: Relay teams notch Hillsborough County's lone titles

    At Punta Gorda, Strawberry Crest’s girls 4x100 relay team and the East Bay boys 4x400 squad captured the county’s lone 3A-3 region track titles. The Chargers foursome, led by seniors Brittany Barber and Yasmine Gardiner, placed third in the prelims (49.27 seconds) before recording a season-best time (48.58) in the ...
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    Thu. April 25, 2013 at 11:07 p.m. | Joey Knight

  • Several Knights to sign Monday

    Nineteen Robinson athletes, including a dozen members of the the Knights' 11-2 football team, will sign college paperwork Monday morning, the school announced. Among them are QB Zain Gilmore, Jr., who will sign with Division I-AA Eastern Kentucky after receiving an offer late last week. Linemen Ted Kelly and Brooks ...
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    Thu. April 25, 2013 at 5:13 p.m. | Joey Knight

  • Claggett remembers Benedetto: 'He was magic'

    Claggett remembers Benedetto: 'He was magic' His 68-year-old eyes gleam as the memory bubbles to the surface. His smile widens as it crashes upward, dripping with joy and irreverence after decades of submergence. Al Claggett can just see his best friend, John Benedetto, spinning a throng of second-graders on one of those manual merry-go-rounds — the ...
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    Thu. April 25, 2013 at 2:13 p.m. | Joey Knight

  • Region track: Green Devils get fired up

    Region track: Green Devils get fired up TAMPA — For St. Petersburg senior Shantel Bentley, race time is rage time. “I always get really, really angry before running,” the Green Devils senior 4x100-meter relay star said. “I don’t know why, I just think of a lot of stuff and I’ll be like, ‘This (anger) is what has ...
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    Wed. April 24, 2013 at 11:46 p.m. | Joey Knight

  • Region track: Freedom's Akachukwu steals the show

    Region track: Freedom's Akachukwu steals the show TAMPA — After more than eight hours, four events and several attempts at correct pronunciation, the public address guy at Wednesday’s super regional at Leto High still was butchering Sandra Akachukwu’s last name. For the record, it’s ah-ka-CHOO-kwoo. Champ, for short. For the second spring in a row, the Freedom ...
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    Wed. April 24, 2013 at 11:01 p.m. | Joey Knight

  • C.J. McGill an 8A all-state pick

    C.J. McGill an 8A all-state pick Two days after signing with the University of Mobile, Wharton PG C.J. McGill has been named a second-team pick on the Florida Association of Basketball Coaches (FABC)/Source Hoops Class 8A all-state squad. McGill is the only bay area player named to the 15-player squad, and one of 10 locals to ...
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    Wed. April 24, 2013 at 10:21 a.m. | Joey Knight

  • Terps' Juwan Durham an All-American

    Tampa Prep 6-foot-9 freshman Juwan Durham, who averaged nearly a double-double (14 points, nine rebounds) for the 27-3 Terrapins this past season, is a second-team pick on the MaxPreps 2012-13 Freshman All-American Team. Durham is the only Florida representative on the 26-player team. A Tampa native who arrived at Tampa ...
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    Tue. April 23, 2013 at 4:57 p.m. | Joey Knight

  • State track: Robinson's DeYoung shows resilience on road back to health

    State track: Robinson's DeYoung shows resilience on road back to health TAMPA — Rarely do his badge and stopwatch intersect. For years, Tampa police Cpl. Mark Altimari successfully has moonlighted as Robinson distance-running coach, with the roles never being blurred. But at the dawn of track season, he wanted to bust Julia DeYoung for lethargy. Only months before, the junior International ...
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    Mon. April 22, 2013 at 9:36 p.m. | Joey Knight

  • Wharton's C.J. McGill to sign with University of Mobile

    Wharton's C.J. McGill to sign with University of Mobile Wharton PG C.J. McGill, the diminutive backcourt dynamo who led the Wildcats to the Class 8A final four in March, has signed with the University of Mobile (Ala.). The 2013 recipient of the "Mac" McGahagin Award as Hillsborough County's top senior player, McGill visited the NAIA program last week. He'll ...
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    Sun. April 21, 2013 at 8:37 p.m. | Joey Knight

  • District softball: Delay doesn't deter Durant

    At Durant, the top-seeded Cougars spent a muggy Friday afternoon finishing off what they started on a rainy Thursday night — a shutout of sixth-seeded Wharton in the Class 8A, District 7 final. Senior ace Paige Davis tossed a five-hitter and had the official  winning RBI to lead the reigning ...
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    Fri. April 19, 2013 at 4:24 p.m. | Joey Knight

  • Knights' Zain Gilmore commits to Eastern Kentucky

    Knights' Zain Gilmore commits to Eastern Kentucky More than two months after national signing day, Robinson QB Zain Gilmore finally has found a college home. Gilmore, a Blake transfer who directed the Knights (11-2) to the Class 5A state semifinals in his only year at the Port Tampa school, has committed to Division I-AA Eastern Kentucky, first-year ...
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    Thu. April 18, 2013 at 10:03 p.m. | Joey Knight

  • Freedom's Romeo bound for prestigious junior golf event

    Freedom's Romeo bound for prestigious junior golf event Freedom sophomore Terese Romeo, who rebounded from wrist surgery to capture district and region titles last season, heads to South Carolina next week for one of junior golf's premier events. Romeo has been chosen to play in The First Tee Challenge during the Junior Invitational at Sage Valley Golf Club ...
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    Thu. April 18, 2013 at 3:51 p.m. | Joey Knight

  • District track roundup: Steinbrenner boys go the distance

    TAMPA — Stomach virus and all, Hillsborough sprinting and soaring dynamo Jeremiah Green still ruled the day at the Class 3A, District 8 meet. But the Steinbrenner Warriors ruled the dusk. Following an afternoon of record-tying heat, the Warriors dominated the distance events in the evening’s running finals to capture ...
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    Wed. April 17, 2013 at 11:40 p.m. | Joey Knight

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