Each week, our HomeTeam staffers will nominate male and female Hot Shot athletes from each of the counties we cover. These nominations span Saturday, Jan. 5 through Friday, Jan. 11. The winners get a free T-shirt and bragging rights over every other school in the area. Read up on what ...
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Sat. Jan. 12, 2013 at 4:29 p.m. | Times Staff
Records through Wednesday Girls 1. Lakewood (17-3): Beat Boca Ciega for the second time this season Tuesday and got Deja Swinton back from injury. 2. Clearwater (20-2): Won two games at the Queen of Palms tournament in Fort Myers over the winter break and beat St. Petersburg on Wednesday. 3. ...
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Thu. Jan. 10, 2013 at 1:34 p.m. | Times Staff
GULFPORT — Longtime Boca Ciega coach Randy Shuman had a simple explanation for his team’s run-n-gun, come-from-behind 82-80 overtime thriller against Lakewood on Tuesday. “That’s Lakewood-Bogie,” Shuman said. “When these two teams play each other, that’s pretty much what you get.” What players and fans got was a Class 5A, ...
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Tue. Jan. 08, 2013 at 9:50 p.m. | Rodney Page
ST. PETERSBURG — Tampa Prep coach Joe Fenlon hoped his team's hot shooting and stifling defense would continue in the final of the Northeast Christmas Invitational on Saturday night. Boca Ciega coach Randy Shuman hoped his team's habit of starting slowly would end.Only Fenlon got his wish.The Terrapins blitzed the ...
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Sat. Dec. 29, 2012 at 9:25 p.m. | Rodney Page
ST. PETERSBURG — Lakewood coach Anthony Lawrence had one final plea as his team broke the huddle to start the second half of its Northeast Christmas Invitational semifinal game Friday night against Boca Ciega: "Don't let Dallas get going."Dallas is Pirates guard Dallas Moore, and while the Spartans were trying ...
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Fri. Dec. 28, 2012 at 9:30 p.m. | Rodney Page
ST. PETERSBURG — There are times when Lakewood's fastbreak offense goes too fast, which causes rushed shots, errant passes and missed opportunities. So Spartans coach Anthony Lawrence Sr. stressed execution in practice over the past few days. It all came together against Seminole on Thursday in the first round of ...
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Thu. Dec. 27, 2012 at 9:13 p.m. | Bob Putnam
CLEARWATER — Whether he was slashing, leaping or flinging shots from 20 feet, Justin Gray could hardly miss Friday night. The one time he did, the Berkeley Prep junior smiled, which said everything that needed to be said about the Bright House Tournament semifinal against Gainesville.Berkeley Prep scored a lot, ...
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Fri. Dec. 21, 2012 at 9:23 p.m. | Bob Putnam
CLEARWATER — After playing away from the basket for much of the first half, Berkeley Prep coach Bobby Reinhart wanted his players to move closer.On defense, he wanted his small guys with quick feet to cut off driving lanes. On offense, he wanted his players to bulldoze toward easy, inside ...
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Thu. Dec. 20, 2012 at 9:39 p.m. | Bob Putnam
GULFPORT — Michael Clark strings together important night-in and night-out numbers in every statistic that is kept, soaring through the climate-controlled air of various arenas and rebounding with flat-out abandon that can draw in the crowd. The junior leads Boca Ciega in scoring with a 13-point average. The box scores ...
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Thu. Dec. 13, 2012 at 8:54 p.m. | Bob Putnam
Each week, our HomeTeam staffers will nominate male and female Hot Shot athletes from each of the counties we cover, then we turn the voting over to our readers. These nominations span Saturday, Dec. 1 through Friday, Dec. 7. The winners get a free T-shirt and bragging rights over every ...
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Sat. Dec. 08, 2012 at 1:55 a.m. | Times Staff
ST. PETERSBURG — Boca Ciega’s Caleb McCullough sank two free throws with three seconds remaining Friday to give the Pirates a thrilling 52-50 win over St. Petersburg. The Pirates (4-0) trailed for much of the game, but never by more than a few points. Good rebounding by St. Petersburg at ...
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Fri. Dec. 07, 2012 at 11:38 p.m. | Anthony Salveggi
Pinellas basketball super 7 Records through Wednesday Boys 1. St. Petersburg (2-1): Bounced back from a weekend loss to Haines City to knock off rival Seminole in a big Class 7A, District 10 game. 2. Boca Ciega (3-0): Strong start to season gets a test with a game tonight against ...
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Thu. Dec. 06, 2012 at 3:13 p.m. | Times Staff
What's hoopening, people? Get it, happening, hoopening? Yessir, the kind of brilliance you can only find here at Morning Meanderings, where coffee and a cranberry Christmas bagel fuel the machine. You know the drill: johncotey@gmail.com, and follow me at @JohnnyHomeTeam Here's some notes, observations and a look at Friday's slate ...
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Thu. Dec. 06, 2012 at 10:52 a.m. | John C. Cotey
Hey there: quick note about Morning Meanderings for the unidoctrinated -- I occasionally put this together by drinking lots of coffee as I read over the morning boxscores on our website. I just do it because it keeps me in the know, to steal someone's advertising slogan, but also to ...
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Wed. Dec. 05, 2012 at 9:55 a.m. | John C. Cotey
Girls basketball IRC 40, Northside 33: Just two games removed from getting beat by 48 against Seffner Christian, IRC earned its second straight win. Center Rachel Boyette, who was sick against Seffner, scored 10. Autumn Frost also scored 10 and Caroline Shelton added eight. The Mustangs were led by 12 ...
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Wed. Dec. 05, 2012 at 12:33 a.m. | Times Staff