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  • HomeTeam Hot Shots: Winners for May 4-10

    HomeTeam Hot Shots    A spotlight on the Times’ bay area players of the week. Female Hot Shot: Caroline Whiteside, Sr., Freedom Sport: Softball Skinny: Whiteside, whose real first name is Sunday, typically batted second this season to move leadoff hitter Maddy Hall over. But with two out and the ...
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    Mon. May 13, 2013 at 5:19 p.m. | Times Staff

  • Recruiting roundup: Four more linemen you should know

    Recruiting roundup: Four more linemen you should know TAMPA — While big names like East Lake’s Mason Cole, Lakewood’s Isaiah Wynn and St. Petersburg Catholic’s Reilly Gibbons head up a class of offensive linemen that might be Tampa Bay’s best ever, the river of talent across the line of scrimmage this year is a deep one, running from ...
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    Sat. May 11, 2013 at 3:11 p.m. | John C. Cotey

    • Recruit: Jake Fruhmorgen
      Florida State University, University of Miami, Vanderbilt University

  • State softball: Freedom finds no answer for Aquinas pitching in 7A final loss

    State softball: Freedom finds no answer for Aquinas pitching in 7A final loss VERO BEACH — They’re staging the state prep softball finals on the grounds once known as Dodgertown, where no less an immortal than Sandy Koufax once worked his arm into shape each March. At times Thursday night, it seemed he still was working. A mesmerizing southpaw ended the greatest season ...
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    Thu. May 09, 2013 at 10:17 p.m. | Joey Knight

  • State softball: Walkoff homer sends Freedom to 7A championship game

    State softball: Walkoff homer sends Freedom to 7A championship game VERO BEACH — Ashley Wilson’s walkoff homer Wednesday allowed Freedom to keep moving on. Wilson led off the bottom of the eighth inning by belting a 3-2 pitch from Tallahassee Chiles ace Samantha Martin over the centerfield fence at the Vero Beach Sports Village complex, walking off with the winning ...
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    Wed. May 08, 2013 at 11:03 p.m. | Bill Whitehead

  • State softball: A Patriots primer

    State softball: A Patriots primer Their historic trek has occurred mostly under the radar. For 2 1/2 months, the Freedom Patriots quietly compiled an 18-3 regular-season mark before a resounding run — equal parts clutch and cacophonous — through the region playoffs. To be sure, we’ve learned much about the mettle of this team in the ...
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    Tue. May 07, 2013 at 6:35 p.m. | Joey Knight

  • Western Kentucky offers Freedom 2014 OL Dillon Browne

    Freedom offensive lineman Dillon Browne has received his first college scholarship offer, from Western Kentucky, according to Patriots coach Todd Donahoe. Browne has been a two-year starter for the Patriots, earning second-team all-Western Conference honors last year as a junior. The 6-foot-4, 238-pound Browne will be one of the anchors ...
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    Mon. May 06, 2013 at 11:54 p.m. | Joel Anderson

  • HomeTeam Huddle: Ridiculously big expectations at Carrollwood Day

    HomeTeam Huddle: Ridiculously big expectations at Carrollwood Day TAMPA — After a one-year hiatus from football, Carrollwood Day rising senior left tackle/defensive end Adonis Welch is back with the Patriots, who project him to be as dominant in the trenches as he is in the paint. A 6-foot-8, 260-pound power forward with at least one Division I basketball ...
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    Mon. May 06, 2013 at 8:13 p.m. | Times Staff

  • 4A track: Bloomingdale relay runs smartest

    4A track: Bloomingdale relay runs smartest Photo gallery JACKSONVILLE — Bloomingdale junior Andrew LeBlanc felt the southerly gusts, saw the rain being blown horizontally, peered at the gray northeast Florida sky, and knew it was the Bulls’ day. “I felt pretty good,” the junior 4x800-meter relay anchor said, “because I knew it would be a tactical ...
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    Sat. May 04, 2013 at 10:34 p.m. | Joey Knight

  • Region softball final: Whiteside's first HR delivers another first for Freedom

    SARASOTA — Freedom’s Caroline Whiteside was just thinking to make contact when she stepped up to the plate in the seventh inning with the score tied 1-all. Normally a singles hitter who bunts at the top of the lineup, Whiteside had two strikes with two outs and the bases loaded. ...
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    Sat. May 04, 2013 at 5:57 p.m. | Bob Putnam

  • Girls basketball: Two Freedom players pick colleges

    Two more players from Freedom’s Class 7A regional champion team will continue playing basketball in college, according to coach Laurie Pacholke. Whitney Ivey, a guard, will play at Johnson & Wales University in North Miami, while backup forward Ashle Thompson has signed with Florida Tech. A senior transfer from Plant, ...
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    Fri. May 03, 2013 at 10:36 a.m. | Joel Anderson

  • Region softball semifinals roundup: Freedom makes early lead hold up

    The first postseason in Freedom softball history has been extended. First by the weather, and now by some timely offense. Caroline Whiteside’s bases-loaded walk in the second stood up as the winning RBI for the Patriots, who struck early and held on for a 4-2 win against reigning state champ ...
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    Thu. May 02, 2013 at 7:11 p.m. | Joey Knight

  • Freedom PG Pacholke to walk on at USF

    Freedom point guard Neena Pacholke, daughter of Patriots coach Laurie Pacholke, will join USF next fall as a preferred walk-on. “Accepted to USF,” she said via her Twitter account Tuesday night. “GO BULLS!” Pacholke averaged 3.0 points, 2.1 assists and a steal for the Patriots, who won both district and ...
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    Tue. April 30, 2013 at 9:11 p.m. | Joel Anderson

  • Spring football primer: Year of the Lineman

    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 ...
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    Tue. April 30, 2013 at 8:34 p.m. | John C. Cotey

  • Hillsborough: Softball region semifinal capsules

    Hillsborough: Softball region semifinal capsules Region softball semifinals 7 p.m. Tuesday unless noted Durant (20-8) at Palm Harbor University (24-4) First pitch: 4 p.m. At stake: Winner faces Orlando Timber Creek/Orlando East River winner in Friday’s Class 8A region finals Who’s hot for Durant: Everyone with a bat. The Cougars, hitting .363 as a team, ...
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    Mon. April 29, 2013 at 3:37 p.m. | Joey Knight

  • Region softball roundup: Freedom's offense comes alive late

    CLEARWATER — The stretch of zeroes on the scoreboard extended through six innings as Freedom and Countryside, teams known for offense, had trouble manufacturing runs in Wednesday’s Class 7A region quarterfinal. It appeared to be more of the same in the seventh as the Patriots led off the inning with ...
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    Wed. April 24, 2013 at 11:08 p.m. | Bob Putnam

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