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Pinellas track stars continue to dazzle at Golden South meet
The Lakewood track trio of Shaquem and Shaquill Griffin and Tim Holmes added Gibbs’ Trayvon Bromell to form an all-star 4x100-meter relay at the Golden South meet. The foursome ran past an impressive field to win the event in 40.29 seconds, the fastest time in the nation this year. Bromell ...
Read moreSat. May 18, 2013 at 9:29 p.m. | Bob Putnam
HomeTeam Huddle: Q&A with Armwood's Sean Callahan
A brief Q&A with Armwood coach Sean Callahan, whose program appears free of Florida High School Athletic Association scrutiny for the first time since the fall of 2011: A lot of people are unsure of what to make of Armwood entering 2013. What’s Armwood going to be? I think we’re ...
Read moreFri. May 03, 2013 at 8:36 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
District baseball roundup: Wharton's late-season surge takes out Alonso
VALRICO — Before the district tournament started Monday, Wharton coach Scott Hoffman noticed a funny little quirk about the bracket. It looked awfully familiar. The Wildcats were poised to face the same teams they had last year, when they won the District 8A-7 championship and made it to the region ...
Read moreTue. April 23, 2013 at 11:07 p.m. | Joel Anderson
Hillsborough: Final regular-season baseball super 7, stats
Baseball super seven Records through Thursday 1. Jesuit (22-2): No longer the nation’s top-ranked team, Jesuit will have to settle for being No. 1 in the county following its first losses of the season in the final week of the regular season. 2. King (19-3): Surrendered more than two runs ...
Read moreFri. April 19, 2013 at 3:58 p.m. | Joel Anderson
District track roundup: Steinbrenner boys go the distance
TAMPA — Stomach virus and all, Hillsborough sprinting and soaring dynamo Jeremiah Green still ruled the day at the Class 3A, District 8 meet. But the Steinbrenner Warriors ruled the dusk. Following an afternoon of record-tying heat, the Warriors dominated the distance events in the evening’s running finals to capture ...
Read moreWed. April 17, 2013 at 11:40 p.m. | Joey Knight
Hillsborough: Baseball super seven, stats
Baseball super seven Records through Wednesday 1. Jesuit (21-0): One of the state’s toughest stretches awaits Tigers near the end of the regular season, including Seminole (15-6), Sarasota (16-5) and nationally-ranked Venice (18-2). 2. Steinbrenner (18-1): Hard not to look ahead to the Warriors’ regular-season finale against Jefferson on Thursday. ...
Read moreThu. April 11, 2013 at 4:22 p.m. | Joel Anderson
Column: A nation takes notice of bay area triple jumpers
CLEARWATER — East Lake High School’s Artavis Scott lay wincing on his back, his arms folded over his face. Lakewood High’s Shaquem Griffin lay next to him, moaning, writhing. In what turned out to be an epic challenge for both, they went hop for hop, step for step and jump ...
Read moreWed. April 10, 2013 at 8:57 p.m. | John C. Cotey
Baseball: Hillsborough super seven, stats
Baseball super seven Records through Wednesday 1. Jesuit (18-0): Won first two games of the Easter Tournament by a combined score of 12-1, proving the Tigers can dominate out-of-state opponents, too. 2. Steinbrenner (15-1): Cole Gordon leads the county with six homers, including the game winner in a big district ...
Read moreThu. April 04, 2013 at 12:16 p.m. | Joel Anderson
HomeTeam Hot Shots: Winners for March 16-22
HomeTeam Hot Shots A spotlight on the Times’ bay area players of the week. Male Hot Shot: Jeremiah Green, Sr., Hillsborough Sport: Track Skinny: On his only triple jump attempt at the March 16 USF/Steinbrenner Invitational, Green propelled his slender 5-foot-8 frame 52 feet, 1 inch — the longest in ...
Read moreMon. March 25, 2013 at 5:56 p.m. | Times Staff
Final observations from USF/Steinbrenner Invite (with Heat Sheet)
In four short springs, the USF/George M. Steinbrenner Invitational has evolved into a bloated replicate of the state meet, albeit with more heats and less humidity. Roughly 80 schools representing 15 counties shoehorned their tents and coolers into the USF Track & Field Stadium on Saturday for the latest staging ...
Read moreWed. March 20, 2013 at 12:42 p.m. | Joey Knight
Baseball: Durant wastes lead but hangs on to reach Saladino semis
BRANDON — The tying run was on base, Durant was on the verge of an improbable collapse and Hillsborough’s seventh-inning hero from Monday was coming to the plate. But there would be no late-game heroics for Jesus Vega or the Terriers this time. Vega grounded into a double play and ...
Read moreThu. March 14, 2013 at 12:27 a.m. | Joel Anderson
Baseball: Saladino at Riverview, Day 3
At Riverview Scores • Hillsborough 6, Lennard 3 • Plant 8, Sickles 3 • Leto 15, Blake 6 • Bloomingdale 6, Riverview 0 Pitchers of the day Bloomingdale right-hander Cody Crouse held Riverview scoreless through six innings in the evening’s win-or-go-home game to determine the champion of Pool E. Crouse ...
Read moreTue. March 12, 2013 at 11:14 p.m. | Bryan Burns
Baseball: Saladino at Riverview, Day 2
At Riverview Scores • Hillsborough 5, Plant 4 • Sickles 10, Lennard 1 • Bloomingdale 8, Leto 2 • Riverview 10, Blake 0 (5) Pitchers of the day Bloomingdale 6-foot-5 sophomore Logan Crouse, one of three brothers on the Bulls’ roster, tossed four strong innings. He allowed two runs and ...
Read moreMon. March 11, 2013 at 8:53 p.m. | Joel Anderson
Saladino at Riverview: Vega's clutch hit completes Hillsborough comeback against Plant
RIVERVIEW — Against most reasonable odds, Hillsborough overcame a three-run deficit in the bottom of the seventh against Plant’s hard-throwing sophomore Jake Woodford. And coming to the plate with a chance to complete the improbable comeback was Hillsborough catcher Jesus Vega, who had gone hitless in three previous appearances. One ...
Read moreMon. March 11, 2013 at 6:35 p.m. | Joel Anderson