The two Hillsborough County girls soccer teams alive at this week's FHSAA state tournament at UT's Pepin Stadium know each other well, but they're taken very different paths here. As rivals, Tampa Prep and Berkeley Prep play each other annually for bragging rights, but come postseason they're in different classifications. ...
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Wed. Feb. 10, 2010 at 6:30 p.m. | Eduardo A. Encina
FORT MYERS —Berkeley Prep used relentless offensive pressure and a stifling defense to defeat Bishop Verot 4-1 in Friday's Class 3A, Region 3 final. With the victory, the Buccaneers (20-4-2) advance to next week's state semifinals at the University of Tampa's Pepin Stadium. It is Berkeley's first trip to states ...
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Fri. Feb. 05, 2010 at 8:25 p.m. | Special to Times -
TAMPA — You wouldn't know it by the final score, but for 71 minutes of Tuesday night's Class 3A second-round match Berkeley Prep was in a fight for its life against Clearwater Central Catholic. One sequence of plays changed everything. First, the Buccaneers got a stop. Then Taylor Batye, after ...
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Tue. Feb. 02, 2010 at 9:27 p.m. | Keith Niebuhr
Class 6A Plant (21-1-1) at Palm Harbor University (19-0-1) The Panthers are arguably Hillsborough County's top team, and the Hurricanes can easily claim the same title in Pinellas. One state contender's season will end tonight. Neither team was its best in the quarters, needing overtime to advance. Plant middle back ...
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Mon. Feb. 01, 2010 at 4:53 p.m. | Eduardo A. Encina
PSSSSSSST! Don't forget to check back today at 2 p.m. for our first-ever livestream of a football player making his college decision when Gibbs' Tim Jackson picks ...well, we can't tell you who, that would ruin all the fun. That, and, well, we're not really sure. TEAM OF THE NIGHT ...
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Fri. Jan. 29, 2010 at 9:34 a.m. | John C. Cotey
TAMPA — Berkeley Prep played 40 minutes Thursday night, but really only needed 37. That was how long it took for the Buccaneers to score eight goals against Frostproof, their Class 3A region quarterfinal opponent. Since the score was 8-0, the game was called by mercy rule at halftime. "In ...
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Thu. Jan. 28, 2010 at 7:37 p.m. | Times Correspondent
Karl Kukec is not only a fine girls soccer coach, he’s pretty good at juggling, too. More and more these days, the two jobs go hand in hand. At Mitchell High, Kukec has to wait until fall sports like volleyball and swimming end to field his full team, an overlap ...
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Tue. Jan. 26, 2010 at 6:40 p.m. | John C. Cotey
ST. PETERSBURG — With it being reasonably apparent that scoring chances might be limited, Sam Newhaller didn't want to let a good opportunity slip away when a perfect pass from Taylor Batye came her way in the 18th minute of Friday's Class 3A, District 10 final. "I knew I had ...
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Fri. Jan. 22, 2010 at 9:10 p.m. | Keith Niebuhr
ST. PETERSBURG — It was a much too familiar scenario for Tampa Catholic.The Crusaders held heavily favored Berkeley Prep at bay for a half but a succession of quick-fire, early second-half strikes by the Buccaneers erased any momentum in a 5-2 Berkeley Prep victory.The result was strikingly similar to the ...
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Thu. Jan. 21, 2010 at 12:29 a.m. | Bryan Burns
GIBSONTON — East Bay High basketball player Shytina Harley isn’t used to looking into the stands during games, but for some reason she glanced into the bleachers at the Indians gym midway through her district home game against Plant City early last month.And there was her mother, smiling back, watching ...
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Mon. Jan. 18, 2010 at 6:55 p.m. | Eduardo A. Encina
Skip Holtz is here! Skip Holtz is here! Skip Holtz is here! ... Okay, let me turn the page here and see what's going on in my world: BALLERS 1. Everyone knows Keswick Christian's Tanner Wozniak has skills, so his 38 points against Academy at the Lakes Thursday night is ...
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Fri. Jan. 15, 2010 at 10:06 a.m. | John C. Cotey
Girls1. Plant (18-1-1): Panthers keep rolling, have established themselves as the county’s best.2. Berkeley Prep (13-4-2): Bucs are 12-1-1 in their past 14 games, and senior leadership will help them this time of the year.3. Bloomingdale (12-4-2): As usual, Bulls are coming on at the right time.4. Newsome (13-3-3): Despite ...
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Wed. Jan. 13, 2010 at 3:36 p.m. | Times Staff
The Berkeley Prep girls soccer team, one of the favorites to make the state tournament next month at UT, will likely have to do it without one of the county's top goalkeepers. Bryane Heaberlin has been invited to the U.S. Women's Under-17 team camp in Sunrise in preparation for qualifying for the FIFA Under-17 World Cup later ...
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Wed. Jan. 13, 2010 at 1:05 a.m. | Eduardo A. Encina
TAMPA — Berkeley Prep's regular-season schedule is designed to prepare the Buccaneers for the playoffs, which loom in a week with district tournament openers. But before then, Class 3A Berkeley tested itself against Class 5A power Venice on Monday night. It was the Bucs' third game in four days — ...
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Mon. Jan. 11, 2010 at 8:49 p.m. | Eduardo A. Encina
TAMPA — On a cold Saturday afternoon, the Berkeley Prep girls soccer team got off to a hot start in its Headmasters' Challenge match with Tampa Prep. The Buccaneers scored two early first-half goals and cruised to a 3-0 shutout in the challenge, a one-day winter sports competition between the ...
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Sat. Jan. 09, 2010 at 5:52 p.m. | Times Correspondent