CLEARWATER — So far this season, Calvary Christian has managed to do just enough to win. That pattern continued Friday afternoon in a 4-1 win over St. Petersburg Catholic. After giving up a run in the top of the second, the Warriors answered with three runs in the bottom of ...
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Fri. March 01, 2013 at 8:31 p.m. | Rodney Page
ST. PETERSBURG — Another high school baseball season has begun and the usual suspects are the teams to watch. Seminole is especially loaded. East Lake has pitching depth and unlike last season, the Eagles are hitting. Countryside, Osceola, Clearwater Central Catholic, Tarpon Springs, Calvary Christian, Dunedin and Indian Rocks Christian ...
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Thu. Feb. 28, 2013 at 2:30 p.m. | Rodney Page
Basketball season winds down this week with the boys state tournament in Lakeland, but the season officially ended last week for Pinellas County teams. We’ll select all-county and all-area teams in the weeks to come, but for now we thought it would be fun to look back on some of ...
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Tue. Feb. 26, 2013 at 6:26 p.m. | Times Staff
Pinellas County keeps adding former Tampa Bay Buccaneers to its coaching ranks. Calvary Christian has hired Todd Yoder to take over its football program, school officials confirmed Monday. Yoder replaces Mark Everett, who decided to step down after one season to be an assistant. Everett, who teaches at Dunedin, said ...
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Mon. Feb. 25, 2013 at 3:55 p.m. | Bob Putnam
LAKELAND — It was a long day for Tampa Bay’s girls basketball teams at the state tournament in Lakeland — no wins, three losses, none of them close. Two of the losses, both state semifinals, were by nine points, and the state championship game was FAMU’s 57-34 triumph over Academy ...
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Wed. Feb. 20, 2013 at 11:30 p.m. | John C. Cotey
LAKELAND — As shot after shot missed its target, Calvary Christian coach Brooke Sibert didn’t flinch. Her team got to Wednesday’s Class 3A semifinal against Daytona Beach Father Lopez by shooting from long range, and that strategy wasn’t about to change. “I was once a shooter so I know how ...
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Wed. Feb. 20, 2013 at 4:28 p.m. | Rodney Page
Calvary Christian (25-3) is making its first state final four appearance in girls basketball. The Warriors take on Daytona Beach Father Lopez (25-5), which won state in 2005, in Wednesday's Class 3A semifinals in Lakeland. Join us at noon as we live blog all the action from the Lakeland Center. ...
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Wed. Feb. 20, 2013 at 10:59 a.m. | Times Staff
CLEARWATER — Wednesday will be such a rare day at Calvary Christian that it had to come up with some sort of special name. In honor of the Warriors’ first appearance at the Class 3A state girls basketball tournament — the school’s first state tournament in any FHSAA-sanctioned sport — ...
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Tue. Feb. 19, 2013 at 7:43 p.m. | Rodney Page
ST. PETERSBURG — Battling a cold she got from coach Necole Tunsil and bruised ribs she got in the region semifinal against Boca Ciega, Lakewood guard Alexis Ungro was in pretty bad shape when she left midway through the fourth quarter of Saturday’s region final against Lake Wales. The Spartans ...
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Sat. Feb. 16, 2013 at 10:48 p.m. | Rodney Page
A funny thing happened to Caroline Andreassen on the way to her senior season. For three years Andreassen was Calvary Christian’s starting point guard. She was the best player on a struggling team that never won a district tournament game. If she didn’t try to score 30 points a night, ...
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Fri. Feb. 15, 2013 at 6:39 p.m. | Rodney Page
ST. PETERSBURG — Tuesday night’s Class 5A region semifinal between Lakewood and Boca Ciega was survival of the fittest. The Pirates were playing without Kenya Joseph and lost senior guard Destiny Brown to a right ankle sprain early in the second quarter. The Spartans’ Alexis Ungro, Kyah Woody and Deja ...
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Tue. Feb. 12, 2013 at 11:01 p.m. | Rodney Page
Calvary Christian administrator David Kilgore said the school has received approval to play the first baseball game at its new $1.5 million stadium Friday against Tampa Prep. In October, Calvary started construction on the complex, the only baseball field in the area with an artificial playing surface. The stadium project ...
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Tue. Feb. 12, 2013 at 6:53 p.m. | Bob Putnam
TAMPA — Robinson freshman Autumn Carson had the 3-point shot lined up and the ball out of her hand before the fourth quarter-clock hit zero. Moments earlier, Carson swished a 3 with 23 seconds left to cap a fourth-quarter rally that saw the Knights make up a seven-point deficit in ...
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Thu. Feb. 07, 2013 at 10:07 p.m. | Bryan Burns
ST. PETERSBURG — If St. Petersburg plays the way it did Friday night against Clearwater in the Class 7A-10 district final, expect the Green Devils to stick around a while in the postseason. Using a menacing defense and a potent offense, St. Petersburg jumped on the Tornadoes early and never ...
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Fri. Feb. 01, 2013 at 11:47 p.m. | Rodney Page
ST. PETERSBURG — Calvary Christian and Indian Rocks Christian, the top seeds in Class 3A-9, advanced to tonight’s district final in convincing fashion. The Warriors had no trouble with No. 4 seed Northside Christian, winning 48-19. In the second game the Golden Eagles defeated No. 3 seed St. Petersburg Catholic ...
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Thu. Jan. 31, 2013 at 10:04 p.m. | Rodney Page