RIVERVIEW — Wharton entered Thursday’s Class 5A, District 7 semifinal against Newsome with nothing to lose. The Wildcats were facing the district’s No. 1 seed in Newsome, a team that won 15 games during the regular season. Wharton, on the other hand, finished below .500 and had just four wins. ...
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Thu. Jan. 24, 2013 at 8:54 p.m. | Bryan Burns
District boys soccer Class 2A, District 9 semifinals: At Tampa Catholic, top-seeded Berkeley Prep (12-10-2) got goals from four players, and a shutout from keeper Ben Milliken, in a 4-0 rout of No. 4-seeded Clearwater Central Catholic. Tyler Sacone, Connor Castro, Warren Backman and Will Sibson scored for Berkeley. In ...
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Thu. Jan. 24, 2013 at 12:32 a.m. | Joey Knight
TAMPA — Palm Harbor University keeps finding new ways to dash Plant’s postseason hopes. In the final seconds of their Class 5A region quarterfinal Wednesday, the Hurricanes came up with their most excruciating flourish yet in this increasingly lopsided playoff rivalry. Alexis Mouton scored the tying goal just before the ...
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Wed. Jan. 23, 2013 at 10:02 p.m. | Joel Anderson
DOVER — Over two nights and 180 total minutes, in both November crispness and January cold, East Bay and Plant City jostled futilely for Class 4A, District 9 supremacy. Finally, with no more minutes to tack onto a neutral-site scoreboard, the Raiders put the fate of this east Hillsborough feud ...
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Fri. Jan. 18, 2013 at 10:56 p.m. | Joey Knight
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
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 ...
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Sat. Dec. 22, 2012 at 11:29 a.m. | Times Staff
Boys basketball Plant 68, Durant 44: At Durant, the Panthers (4-3, 3-1) jumped out to a 22-2 lead and rolled from there in a Class 8A, District 7 clash. Junior forward Andrew Sanders had a double double (21 points, 15 rebounds) while senior Alex Mitura (20 points) had six 3-pointers. ...
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Tue. Dec. 11, 2012 at 11:04 p.m. | Joey Knight
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
It was Milestone Monday in girls hoops last night, and here's your boys basketball nursing rhyme of the day: Jack and Bill went up against Marcus Hill, to fetch a possible victory. But Jack fell down when he got dunked on, and Bill came tumbling after. Keep reading. It will ...
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Tue. Dec. 04, 2012 at 10:53 a.m. | John C. Cotey
Some random thoughst and observations about the goings on in the preps world by Times' columnist John C. Cotey, while sipping too much coffee and perusing the previous night's newspaper and boxscores. Oh, and if you want to get your name in here, then shoot me an email at johncotey@gmail.com, ...
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Thu. Nov. 29, 2012 at 12:06 a.m. | John C. Cotey
By my count, there were like 150 basketball games played last night. Busiest night of the season so far. Here's the best of the best of the best: GAME OF THE NIGHT Looks like we covered the best games: Here'S Berkeley Prep's big win over Lakewood. Tranisha Harmon had 10 ...
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Wed. Nov. 28, 2012 at 10:36 a.m. | John C. Cotey
DOVER — Strawberry Crest defeated East Bay 29-14 Friday. After an early first-quarter deficit, Strawberry Crest (4-6, 2-5) quarterback Tristan Hyde connected with Arjay Smith on a 1- yard TD on fourth down tying the score minutes before halftime. The score stood at 14-all entering the fourth but the Chargers ...
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Fri. Nov. 09, 2012 at 9:55 p.m. | Michael Paonessa
GIBSONTON — East Bay (4-5, 3-2) held on to an early seven-point lead to edge Brandon (1-8, 1-4) 7-6 Friday. However, Newsome's easy win over Plant City secured the Wolves' place ahead of the Indians for 7A-8 runnerup.The game remained scoreless until the second quarter when East Bay's Chris Carpentier ...
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Fri. Nov. 02, 2012 at 9:19 p.m. | Bobby Winsler
GIBSONTON — Durant (8-0, 4-0) remained undefeated, scoring 28 unanswered points Friday after falling behind early to East Bay (3-5, 2-2) for a 28-3 victory. The Indians started strong but were overcome by the Cougars' persistent ground game.Durant went to the run on the first drive but a fumble ended ...
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Fri. Oct. 26, 2012 at 8:56 p.m. | Bobby Winsler
Super 7 1. Plant (6-1): Panthers' position atop rankings tenuous; Armwood and Robinson still loom. 2. Robinson (7-0): Coach Mike DePue called the 47-0 win against Spoto sloppy. We should all be so unkempt. 3. Hillsborough (6-1): And to think the Terriers blanked Armwood without Gators commitment Jordan Sherit. 4. Armwood (6-2): Defensive shortcomings ...
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Sat. Oct. 20, 2012 at 7:01 p.m. | Times Staff