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Softball: Durant's Taylor shows she belongs with two-run homer
TAMPA — Durant junior Madi Taylor spent the first varsity start of her life assuring herself of a second. Taylor’s first hit of 2013 was a two-run home run to leftfield in the top of the fifth inning, highlighting the reigning Class 8A state champions’ 5-1 victory Tuesday against Alonso. ...
Read moreTue. Feb. 26, 2013 at 11:03 p.m. | Joey Knight
Times' all-Suncoast softball teams
Player of the Year: Bianka Bell, Sr., Chamberlain Put a 34-inch Easton Synergy in Bell’s hands, and the term “softball” never seemed more contradictory. The line-drive homers, the scorching grounders capable of ripping off a shortstop’s glove, the laser-type comebackers to the circle — try ascertaining what’s soft about any ...
Read moreWed. June 13, 2012 at 2:05 p.m. | Times Staff
Times' all-Hillsborough County softball teams
Player of the year: Bianka Bell, Sr., Chamberlain Why we picked her: Arguably the most powerful hitter in Hillsborough County fast-pitch history, Bell was a leadoff hit — or homer — waiting to happen for the Class 7A state champs. The younger sister of two SEC players, she hit .720 ...
Read moreFri. June 01, 2012 at 11:47 a.m. | Joey Knight
Clock strikes midnight and Durant's Cinderella postseason rolls on
For one surreal postseason, they brandished courage and camaraderie, power and persistence, fortitude and fielding prowess. But at the very end, the Durant Cougars found themselves bereft of one vital quality: sleep. Insomnia never seemed so blissful. Well after midnight Tuesday morning, following a second rain delay, the Cardiac Cougars ...
Read moreTue. May 15, 2012 at 1:08 p.m. | Joey Knight
State softball: Durant claims first title
CLERMONT — Durant’s mystical playoff run of happy bounces and goose-bump wins wrapped up in the wee hours this morning. The Cougars, undeterred by rain delays before and during the game, won their first state softball title with an 8-2 victory over Miami Palmetto in the Class 8A championship. Once ...
Read moreTue. May 15, 2012 at 12:51 a.m. | Bob Putnam
Team mom's cancer fight strengthens Durant softball team
PLANT CITY — The pickups and PT Cruisers that follow the area’s most flabbergasting softball story into the stomach of Florida’s peninsula Sunday will be accompanied by two certainties. Pink ribbons will secure the ponytails of Durant High School’s softball players, and “Momma C” will be there. Will she ever. ...
Read moreFri. May 11, 2012 at 6:07 p.m. | Joey Knight
Region softball roundup: Durant can breathe easy in this win
PLANT CITY — For the first time in their surreal postseason run, the Durant Cougars had no eleventh-hour rally, heart-palpitating home run, nor canyon-sized deficit out of which to climb Tuesday night. The only part of this playoff contest that resembled all the others: the postgame euphoria. The Cardiac Cougars ...
Read moreTue. May 01, 2012 at 10:53 p.m. | Joey Knight
Region softball: No such thing as an insurmountable deficit to Durant
Euphoria traveled a well-worn path Friday night, with bliss and exhilaration in tow. After originating at the softball field at Durant High’s Ron Frost Athletic Complex, they wafted down Turkey Creek Road, hung a left on State Road 60 and exited at the Valrico Beef ‘O’ Brady’s. There, they lingered ...
Read moreMon. April 30, 2012 at 4:35 p.m. | Joey Knight
Region softball roundup: Durant's latest comeback defies all odds
PLANT CITY — It fell behind 11-0 and came back to win a district title, and if you thought that was crazy … The very next game, a dropped foul ball with two out gave Paige Davis another swing, which she used to hit a walkoff home run, and if ...
Read moreFri. April 27, 2012 at 7:49 p.m. | John C. Cotey
Region softball roundup: Durant keeps coming back
PLANT CITY — Twice in the past two games, logic has all but administered the last rites to Durant’s softball team. Thing is, the alleged burials have been supplanted by a birth of sorts. From the womb of amazement, the Cardiac Cougars have been spawned. For the second time in ...
Read moreWed. April 25, 2012 at 12:18 a.m. | Joey Knight
District softball roundup: Chamberlain ace keeps her cool
LUTZ — When opposing runners get into scoring position, Chamberlain pitcher Rachel Dwyer keeps the positive thoughts. “Just because someone’s on (base) doesn’t mean they have to score,” she said. The junior right-hander escaped a pair of mid-game jams and went the distance on a three-hitter as No. 1 seed ...
Read moreThu. April 19, 2012 at 11:47 p.m. | Don Jensen
District softball: Durant ousts Wharton in extra innings
TAMPA — For one surreal stroll around the bases Tuesday night, the throbbing in Durant sophomore Kelli Tidwell's left knee vanished, soothed by one potent, pain-killing shot.Over the fence in right-centerfield.Tidwell, who has missed roughly 75 percent of the season with meniscus damage, hit a one-out solo home run in ...
Read moreTue. April 17, 2012 at 8:43 p.m. | Joey Knight
Hillsborough County: Softball statistics, super 7
Times’ Super Seven Records through Tuesday 1. Chamberlain (20-4): Chiefs dangling from top spot after dropping three of past five 2. Alonso (17-5): Erika “Shutdown” Shick’s latest gem: a one-hitter at Chamberlain 3. Plant City (16-3): Raiders could enter district tourney on six-game win streak 4. Durant (16-4): Cougars bounce ...
Read moreWed. April 11, 2012 at 11:49 a.m. | Joey Knight
Hillsborough: Softball statistics and super 7
Times’ Super Seven Records through Tuesday 1. Chamberlain (18-1): No glaring holes in Chiefs’ batting order 2. Plant City (15-3): Raiders, arguably area’s fastest team, have lost only once in county 3. Alonso (15-4): Red-hot Ravens have topped Durant, Bloomingdale, Plant in succession 4. Durant (15-4): Cougars, losers of three ...
Read moreWed. April 04, 2012 at 11:54 a.m. | Joey Knight
Hillsborough: Softball stats, super 7
Times’ Super Seven Records through Tuesday 1. Chamberlain (17-1): As you read this, Bianka Bell just got another extra-base hit 2. Durant (15-2): For now, Cougars hold at No. 2 despite Tuesday’s 2-0 loss to Bloomingdale 3. Plant City (11-4): Raiders fell to a pair of East Coast powers in ...
Read moreWed. March 28, 2012 at 12:10 p.m. | Joey Knight