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  • HomeTeam Hot Shots: Winners for April 6-12

    HomeTeam Hot Shots A spotlight on the Times’ bay area players of the week. Female Hot Shot: Melissa Dones, So., Lakewood Sport: Track and field Skinny: Dones encountered the most daunting hurdle of the Class 2A, District 10 meet before even checking in. A hearing-impaired sophomore, she lost battery power ...
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    Mon. April 15, 2013 at 2:19 p.m. | Joey Knight

  • Leto kicker Amoreto Curraj bound for Marshall

    Leto kicker Amoreto Curraj, an honorable mention pick on the Times' All-Hillsborough County team last fall, has signed a "letter of commitment" to play at Division I Marshall, Falcons coach Matt Kitchie announced. According to Kitchie, Curraj, who booted three field goals last season and has shined on the statewide ...
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    Mon. April 15, 2013 at 1:40 p.m. | Joey Knight

  • Jesuit's Devin Harris commits to ETSU

    Jesuit's Devin Harris commits to ETSU Jesuit guard Devin Harris, arguably the most versatile player from the Tigers' Class 5A state championship team, confirmed Saturday he has committed to East Tennessee State. Harris becomes the fourth member of the team -- so far -- who will compete athletically in college. The others: shooting guard Jack Fleming ...
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    Sat. April 13, 2013 at 7:38 p.m. | Joey Knight

  • District track: Again, pain accompanies gain for AHN's McEnany

    District track: Again, pain accompanies gain for AHN's McEnany TAMPA -- For the second district meet in a row, Ryann McEnany winced her way up the medal stand, basking in the agony of victory. One year after winning a pair of district hurdles titles with ankle tendinitis, the Academy of the Holy Names senior defended them at Friday's 2A-9 ...
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    Fri. April 12, 2013 at 11:13 p.m. | Joey Knight

  • Ried's redemption leads Sharks at districts

    Ried's redemption leads Sharks at districts TAMPA -- With grayness overhead and gusts at his back Friday, Anclote junior Jamaree Ried stared down the same straightaway in the same stadium at which he had struggled miserably only seven days before. In that meet, the Berkeley Tailgate, Ried hit the first hurdle and stepped on the second ...
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    Fri. April 12, 2013 at 10:17 p.m. | Joey Knight

  • Softball: There's one remedy for Chargers' disappointment

    Softball: There's one remedy for Chargers' disappointment DOVER — After five minutes, the softball lifer could take no more. It wasn’t chin music forcing Mindy Miltner to bail. More like chin-up music. It’s okay. Keep your head high. You guys still had a great year. They were the kind of well-meaning condolences Miltner didn’t want to hear ...
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    Fri. April 12, 2013 at 6:45 p.m. | Joey Knight

  • Offers mounting for Raiders trio

    Offers mounting for Raiders trio If their sack and pancake totals can match their scholarship offer tally, Montel McBride and Sedrick King could spark a Plant City football resurgence this fall. McBride (6-foot-4, 330 pounds) and King (6-4, 220) have six and seven offers, respectively, after a series of solid performances at various combines. Both ...
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    Fri. April 12, 2013 at 10:10 a.m. | Joey Knight

    • Recruit: Montel McBride
      Florida International University, University of Central Florida, University of South Florida

  • Track: Spartans' wins no surprise at 2A-10 meet

    Track: Spartans' wins no surprise at 2A-10 meet RIVERVIEW — The only smidgen of drama provided by Lakewood’s track program Thursday came courtesy of 15-year-old hurdler Melissa Dones. A hearing-impaired sophomore, Dones was warming up at the outset of the Class 2A, District 10 meet when she was startled by the ominous beep in her right hearing aid, ...
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    Thu. April 11, 2013 at 10:03 p.m. | Joey Knight

  • Jesuit PG J.J. Weir bound for Rhodes College

    Jesuit PG J.J. Weir bound for Rhodes College Jesuit senior G J.J. Weir, a starter on the Tigers' Class 5A state championship team, will sign Wednesday with Division III Rhodes College in Memphis, Tenn., the school announced. Weir will become the third signee -- but far from the last -- from that championship squad. SG Jack Fleming signed ...
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    Thu. April 11, 2013 at 9:58 p.m. | Joey Knight

    • Recruit: JJ Weir
      Rhodes (Tenn.) College

  • Track: Spoto's Moate makes things right at 2A-10 meet

    Track: Spoto's Moate makes things right at 2A-10 meet RIVERVIEW — His hamstrings throbbed, like “somebody dropped bars” on them. On a 1-10 scale, Spoto senior Eric Moate said, the pain registered a nine. In lieu of a Gatorade shower Thursday evening, he was planning an ice bath. Such is how redemption feels. A day shy of the one-year ...
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    Thu. April 11, 2013 at 9:11 p.m. | Joey Knight

  • Hillsborough: Softball super seven, stats

    Softball super seven Records through Tuesday 1. Strawberry Crest (20-2): Chargers won seven of their 10 district games by 10-run rule 2. Durant (16-8): Cougars, 2-0 winners Tuesday vs. Chamberlain, are team no one wants to play 3. Chamberlain (17-7): Chiefs coach Bobby Diez livid over his team’s offensive execution ...
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    Wed. April 10, 2013 at 11:38 a.m. | Joey Knight

  • Pink power: Cougars prevail on cancer awareness night

    Pink power: Cougars prevail on cancer awareness night PLANT CITY — On the most poignant night of Durant's season, senior ace Paige Davis got an inspirational boost from the Cougars' celestial team mom and a generous strike zone from the umpire. The result was a 2-0 victory against Chamberlain in a clash of reigning state champions on the ...
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    Tue. April 09, 2013 at 11:10 p.m. | Joey Knight

  • District track: Spoto's Eric Moate up for next challenge

    District track: Spoto's Eric Moate up for next challenge TAMPA — An authentic senior portrait of Eric Moate would call for more grimace than grin. For a solid year, pain — to some degree — has been affixed to the Spoto senior with all the profundity and permanence of a forearm tattoo. It fades, yet never vanishes. Sort of ...
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    Mon. April 08, 2013 at 2:31 p.m. | Joey Knight

  • King baseball alums, coaches reunite for Lions' share of memories

    King baseball alums, coaches reunite for Lions' share of memories On a bright, cloudless day, beneath a tent erected just beyond the first-base line of King High's ballpark, a half-century's worth of generations converged Saturday. So did three of the four baseball coaches in the school's 53-year history. Dozens of former Lions players partook of sandwiches, sodas and a smorgasbord ...
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    Sat. April 06, 2013 at 3:11 p.m. | Joey Knight

  • Hillsborough County roundup for Friday, April 5

    HomeTeam Hot Shots Andrea Aaron, Chamberlain. Two days after winning girls shot put and discus titles for the second season in a row at the Hillsborough County Championships, the Chiefs senior finished fourth Thursday in the discus with a personal-best effort (130 feet, 10 inches) at the Florida Relays in ...
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    Fri. April 05, 2013 at 11:01 p.m. | Joey Knight

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