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Spring football: Jamboree at Armwood
At Armwood Scores: Plant City 23, Durant 0 Armwood 34, Strawberry Crest 0 Spring game-breakers: Despite a bland scheme that featured three total blitzes, Plant City sacked Cougars rising senior Trey VanDeGrift at least four times and nearly held the Cougars to negative rushing yardage. … Raiders rising junior DB ...
Read moreThu. May 23, 2013 at 10:40 p.m. | Joey Knight
State baseball: With a star frontman, Durant finds way to harmonize
DURANT — On paper, and in the minds of many fans and opponents, Durant is the consummate one-man band: Tyler Danish and the Cougars. Danish leads the team in batting average (.415), RBIs (25) and home runs (a school-record eight). But the UF signee saves his best work for the ...
Read moreWed. May 15, 2013 at 8:42 p.m. | Joel Anderson
HomeTeam Huddle: Notable vacancies in Hillsborough backfields
Where did all the yards go? • All but one of the county’s seven 1,000-yard rushers in 2012 will graduate and move on to college programs, leaving frustrated defensive coordinators and would-be tacklers in their wake. • Now, the game-day burden falls on their old coaches to figure out a ...
Read moreWed. May 08, 2013 at 10:23 p.m. | Times Staff
Spring football primer: Year of the Lineman
When we went looking for the stars of 2013, we zipped right past the pretty-boy quarterbacks, the speedy running backs, the hard-hitting linebackers and the fancy-footed wide receivers and defensive backs. This year, they’ll be taking a back seat to those referred to, lovingly, by their coaches as the big ...
Read moreTue. April 30, 2013 at 8:34 p.m. | John C. Cotey
Ten things from a Sunday 7-on-7 scrimmage
A gorgeous Sunday afternoon just begged for some football, and while not the real stuff, a 7-on-7 scrimmage between Unsigned Preps and the Next Level Nighthawks at Ferrell Middle School seemed a worthy way to catch some rays. Unsigned Preps has a nice little squad, and Next Level was clearly ...
Read moreMon. Feb. 11, 2013 at 2:04 p.m. | John C. Cotey
Determined Durant LB Chris Smith signs with FAMU
The first response came last spring from an NCAA Division III program in Fayetteville, N.C., and Chris Smith could barely contain his excitement. “I went in and told my mom and everything,” he said. “I couldn’t believe they got back with me.” It was Smith’s first bit of evidence that ...
Read moreWed. Feb. 06, 2013 at 6:49 p.m. | Joel Anderson
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Recruit: Chris Smith
Florida A&M University
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Recruit: Chris Smith
Durant FB Jamarlon Hamilton commits to FAMU Rattlers
Durant fullback Jamarlon Hamilton, a Tampa Bay Times first-team all-Suncoast pick, has orally committed to Florida A&M, Cougars head coach Mike Gottman said Saturday morning. The 5-foot-10, 235-pound senior was the offensive centerpiece of Durant’s first unbeaten regular-season in school history, rushing for 1,340 yards and 20 touchdowns. He had ...
Read moreSat. Feb. 02, 2013 at 11:30 a.m. | Joel Anderson
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Recruit: Jamarlon Hamilton
Florida A&M University
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Recruit: Jamarlon Hamilton
Times' all-Suncoast football
Offensive Player of the Year: QB Pete DiNovo, Sr., East Lake It has been a whirlwind two weeks for Pete DiNovo. After competing in the Pinellas senior all-star game Dec. 12, DiNovo was in Orlando two days later for his official visit to the University of Central Florida, where he ...
Read moreMon. Dec. 24, 2012 at 5:32 p.m. | Times Staff
Times' all-Hillsborough football team
Offensive Player of the Year: QB Will Worth, Sr., Newsome Why we picked him: Considering no county player was more vital to his team, Worth also was a bona fide defensive player of the year candidate. We chose him for offense in part because of his staggering playoff performance. The ...
Read moreSat. Dec. 22, 2012 at 11:29 a.m. | Times Staff
Region football: Newsome 21, Durant 14
PLANT CITY — Cornerback Ricardo Rodriguez had heard the song before. “I’m used to getting picked on because I’m a shorter corner,” Rodriguez, generously listed as 5 feet 7 in the Wolves’ program, said. “But I play pretty big.” Rodriguez certainly came up plenty big Friday night, batting away a ...
Read moreSat. Nov. 24, 2012 at 12:57 a.m. | Brandon Wright
Making the old new again? Four football rematches on tap Friday
Before the first frantic shopping day of the season expires, the Lakewood High School Spartans will receive the most tantalizing item on their holiday wish list: a rematch against Robinson. A county away, Armwood will be presented a sleek, shiny new set of 12-minute quarters against Hillsborough. And while irrational ...
Read moreMon. Nov. 19, 2012 at 6:15 p.m. | Joey Knight
Hillsborough: Sunday morning quarterback
Let's play two. Week 2 of the football postseason features four rematches of regular-season showdowns. In order of appeal, we rank them:1. Armwood (8-3) at Hillsborough (9-1)First meeting: Hillsborough 3-0 on Oct. 18Veteran coach Earl Garcia was moved to tears after Hillsborough handed the penalty-prone Hawks their first shutout defeat ...
Read moreSat. Nov. 17, 2012 at 6:23 p.m. | Times Staff
Friday Night Rewind: First-round playoffs
Video highlights from Armwood-Largo, TBT-Durant, North Marion-Pasco and Anclote-Eastside.
Read moreSat. Nov. 17, 2012 at 5:31 a.m. | Times Staff
Region football: Durant 34, Tampa Bay Tech 7 (with video)
PLANT CITY — Durant delivered a resounding message Friday to those who doubted its ability to match up against Tampa Bay Tech. “They’re bigger, faster and we can’t stop their offense,” is what Durant running back Chris Atkins said people were saying heading into the game , which was a ...
Read moreSat. Nov. 17, 2012 at 12:58 a.m. | Travis Puterbaugh
Longtime friends succeed at Durant with old-school approach
PLANT CITY — In many ways, Durant’s undefeated season in fall 2012 started rather inauspiciously about a decade ago with a mediocre youth football team called the Turkey Creek Trojans. Longtime friends Cody Martin, Dalton Wilkerson and Alex Wood made up three-fifths of the starting offensive line for a team ...
Read moreWed. Nov. 14, 2012 at 10:15 p.m. | Joel Anderson