Times’ softball super 7 Records through Tuesday 1. Chamberlain (15-1): Chiefs re-assume top spot after winning Bartow Home of Champions tourney 2. Durant (13-1): Loss to Chamberlain in finals of Bartow tourney is Cougars’ lone blemish 3. Plant City (8-2): Raiders showed mettle in rallying past Riverview on road Tuesday ...
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Wed. March 21, 2012 at 3:55 p.m. | Joey Knight
Times’ Super Seven Records through Tuesday 1. Durant (9-0): Perfect record will be challenged mightily this weekend at Bartow tourney 2. Chamberlain (11-1): Chiefs also headed to Bartow, where they lost two in the preseason 3. Plant City (7-2): Raiders have only themselves to blame for last week’s loss at ...
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Wed. March 14, 2012 at 6:44 p.m. | Joey Knight
Times’ Super Seven Records through Tuesday 1. Durant (8-0): Cougars’ game Thursday at Plant City will be toughest test yet 2. Chamberlain (10-1): Chiefs, who needed nine innings to beat Jefferson, sputtering on offense lately 3. Plant City (7-1): Raiders hitting .392 as a team entering Thursday’s showdown with Durant ...
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Wed. March 07, 2012 at 5:43 p.m. | Joey Knight
Times’ super 7 Records through Tuesday’s games 1. Chamberlain (7-0): Chiefs averaging nearly 12 runs a game and hitting better than .450 as a team 2. Durant (6-0): Cougars remained perfect with Tuesday’s nine-inning, 5-4 win vs. Alonso 3. Sickles (7-0): Are Gryphons for real? Next three games (Strawberry Crest, ...
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Wed. Feb. 29, 2012 at 2:15 p.m. | Joey Knight
TAMPA — On a breezy night in Westchase, struggling Alonso sophomore Elly Pillers was clutch, and hitting coach Sherman Johnson was clairvoyant. Credit Johnson for calling the Pillers shot — a one-out single in the bottom of the seventh — that lifted the Ravens (5-0, 2-0) to a 3-2 triumph ...
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Fri. Feb. 24, 2012 at 11:39 p.m. | Joey Knight
We admit it, we’re embarking on the 2012 prep softball season a tad behind in the count. Officially, the regular season began Monday, but we’re fighting off that technicality as if it were a pesky rise ball and taking another swing at starting things off with some pop. In light ...
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Tue. Feb. 07, 2012 at 2:05 p.m. | Joey Knight
VALRICO — The season series between Plant and Alonso (17-8, 4-5) was split before Thursday’s 6A-8 district final, but after overcoming a three-run deficit to defeat Wharton in a semifinal, the Panthers gained confidence and showed off their defensive skills in the district final, defeating Alonso 1-0. “We were rejuvenated ...
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Fri. April 22, 2011 at 12:30 a.m. | Patti McDonald
BLOOMINGDALE — The adage about it being tough to defeat an opponent three times rang true in the second game of Tuesday’s Class 6A-8 tournament at Bloomingdale, which beat Alonso twice during the regular season. The Ravens won when it counted most, coming out on top in a 10-7 slugfest ...
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Tue. April 19, 2011 at 11:39 p.m. | Steve Lee
As she recounts the most prolific night of her softball life from a metal bleacher seat, one truth quickly becomes glaring: Jessica “Jessie” Warren has faced a full count or two in her day. “My first at-bat, I had three balls, two strikes, she threw me a rise ball, I ...
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Wed. March 23, 2011 at 3:23 p.m. | Joey Knight
Times’ Super Seven1. Chamberlain (13-2): Chiefs’ win streak at 13 after Amber Fullwood’s one-hitter Wednesday at Freedom2. Plant (16-2): Panthers prevail in Spring Fling despite missing a handful of key players in final3. East Bay (15-7): Catcher-turned-pitcher C.C. Rock may have delivered gutsiest performance of Spring Fling4. Newsome (14-4): In ...
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Thu. April 01, 2010 at 5:15 p.m. | Joey Knight
Times’ Super 71. Plant (8-1): Panthers have won their five district games by a combined score of 35-52. East Bay (8-4): Coach Glenn Rodriguez wants it known: His defense behind Kayla Cox is pretty good, too.3. Newsome (7-3): Wolves coming off impressive wins over Riverview and Plant City.4. Chamberlain (7-2): ...
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Thu. March 18, 2010 at 11:53 a.m. | Joey Knight
Times’ Super 71. Plant (7-1): Behind pitchers Miranda Clark and Rose Yanger, Panthers have shut out past three foes.2. East Bay (7-4): Indians are 5-0 in county’s best district behind Kayla Cox, who has yet to surrender an earned run.3. Newsome (6-3): Dropped two of last three entering tonight’s game ...
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Thu. March 11, 2010 at 2:06 p.m. | Joey Knight
Alonso softball player Kaitlin Shortt has committed to play at Division II Eckerd and will participate in a signing ceremony Thursday at the school. Short, a pitcher, chose Eckerd over UT and UCF. As a junior, she was 2-3 with a 0.88 ERA for the Ravens. Short plans to major ...
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Wed. Nov. 18, 2009 at 11:53 a.m. | Eduardo A. Encina