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HomeTeam Hot Shots: Winners for Feb. 9-15
HomeTeam Hot Shots A spotlight on the Times’ bay area players of the week. Female Hot Shot: Alexis Ungro, Lakewood Sport: Basketball Skinny: Ungro came up big when she was needed most. Despite a wrapped ankle, hyper-extended right arm and bruised ribs from taking a charge, Ungro scored 14 points ...
Read moreMon. Feb. 18, 2013 at 4:31 p.m. | Times Staff
Region girls basketball roundup: Ungro puts on 'warrior clothes' for Lakewood
ST. PETERSBURG — Battling a cold she got from coach Necole Tunsil and bruised ribs she got in the region semifinal against Boca Ciega, Lakewood guard Alexis Ungro was in pretty bad shape when she left midway through the fourth quarter of Saturday’s region final against Lake Wales. The Spartans ...
Read moreSat. Feb. 16, 2013 at 10:48 p.m. | Rodney Page
Girls region basketball roundup: Lakewood finds third-quarter spark
ST. PETERSBURG — Tuesday night’s Class 5A region semifinal between Lakewood and Boca Ciega was survival of the fittest. The Pirates were playing without Kenya Joseph and lost senior guard Destiny Brown to a right ankle sprain early in the second quarter. The Spartans’ Alexis Ungro, Kyah Woody and Deja ...
Read moreTue. Feb. 12, 2013 at 11:01 p.m. | Rodney Page
Girls basketball: Bogie thrilled to see Lakewood a fourth time
Boca Ciega has Lakewood right where it wants it. Never mind the fact that the Pirates haven’t beaten the Spartans in three tries this season. In fact, they haven’t beaten them since Feb. 6, 2009. And never mind that Tuesday's Class 5A region semifinal will be at Lakewood, a gym ...
Read moreMon. Feb. 11, 2013 at 4:30 p.m. | Rodney Page
Region girls basketball roundup: Boca Ciega thrives in overtime
TAMPA — Robinson freshman Autumn Carson had the 3-point shot lined up and the ball out of her hand before the fourth quarter-clock hit zero. Moments earlier, Carson swished a 3 with 23 seconds left to cap a fourth-quarter rally that saw the Knights make up a seven-point deficit in ...
Read moreThu. Feb. 07, 2013 at 10:07 p.m. | Bryan Burns
District girls basketball roundup: No holes in St. Petersburg's game
ST. PETERSBURG — If St. Petersburg plays the way it did Friday night against Clearwater in the Class 7A-10 district final, expect the Green Devils to stick around a while in the postseason. Using a menacing defense and a potent offense, St. Petersburg jumped on the Tornadoes early and never ...
Read moreFri. Feb. 01, 2013 at 11:47 p.m. | Rodney Page
Girls district basketball roundup: Green Devils rely on defense
ST. PETERSBURG — Clearwater and St. Petersburg will play for the Class 7A-10 district championship, but both teams advanced to the final in different ways. St. Petersburg started slowly but eventually wore out Countryside 57-17. Clearwater sputtered for most of its game against Northeast but got hot in the third ...
Read moreWed. Jan. 30, 2013 at 11:54 p.m. | Rodney Page
Girls basketball: Lakewood wraps up another PCAC crown
CLEARWATER — Necole Tunsil wasn’t enamored of Lakewood’s performance in victory Friday night, which gave the Spartans their third consecutive Pinellas County Athletic Conference title. But she did see a few things she liked, namely a heads-up play by sophomore Deja Swinton that may have saved the night for the ...
Read moreFri. Jan. 25, 2013 at 11:44 p.m. | John C. Cotey
Pinellas boys & girls basketball super 7
Records through Wednesday Girls 1. Lakewood (18-3): Losing Kasey Drayton (thumb injury) for the season doesn’t help, but the Spartans still have enough talent to make a playoff run. 2. Clearwater (22-3): Tornadoes rebounded from a loss to Lake Worth by beating Palm Harbor University. PCAC final against Lakewood on ...
Read moreThu. Jan. 24, 2013 at 2:09 p.m. | Times Staff
Girls basketball: Lakewood finishes out win, boosts confidence
ST. PETERSBURG — Lakewood erased the bad memory of two blown leads last week by winning decisively 64-47 over St. Petersburg on Tuesday night. The win puts the Spartans in the PCAC championship game Friday at Clearwater. Unlike Friday and Saturday, when the Spartans jumped out to leads against Orlando ...
Read moreWed. Jan. 23, 2013 at 12:31 a.m. | Rodney Page
Girls basketball: Lakewood blows late 19-point lead in Shootout defeat
ST. PETERSBURG — For those who left Lakewood's Breast Cancer Shootout girls basketball game against Port Orange Atlantic midway through the fourth quarter Saturday, this is not a misprint. Atlantic did beat the Spartans 48-47.That final score seemed improbable with four minutes left as Lakewood led 45-26 and seemed to ...
Read moreSat. Jan. 19, 2013 at 8:12 p.m. | Rodney Page
Basketball: Pinellas girls & boys super 7
Records through Monday Girls 1. Lakewood (17-3): Spartans host the Breast Cancer Shootout this weekend, which features some of the better teams in the state. 2. Clearwater (20-2): Tests against Lake Worth in the Lakewood tournament and Palm Harbor University await. 3. Boca Ciega (17-6): Pirates come out of exams ...
Read moreTue. Jan. 15, 2013 at 5:15 p.m. | Times Staff
Basketball: Pinellas girls and boys super 7
Records through Wednesday Girls 1. Lakewood (17-3): Beat Boca Ciega for the second time this season Tuesday and got Deja Swinton back from injury. 2. Clearwater (20-2): Won two games at the Queen of Palms tournament in Fort Myers over the winter break and beat St. Petersburg on Wednesday. 3. ...
Read moreThu. Jan. 10, 2013 at 1:34 p.m. | Times Staff
HomeTeam Hot Shots: Nominations for Dec. 22-Jan. 4
Each week, our HomeTeam staffers will nominate male and female Hot Shot athletes from each of the counties we cover. These nominations span Saturday, Dec. 22 through Friday, Jan. 4. The winners get a free T-shirt and bragging rights over every other school in the area. Read up on what ...
Read moreSat. Jan. 05, 2013 at 8:51 p.m. | Times Staff
Girls basketball: Lakewood veterans step up after halftime deficit
ST. PETERSBURG — Lakewood was handling the ball haphazardly on offense, was getting beat to the basket on defense, and was looking up at a strange sight on the scoreboard: a halftime deficit. In a matchup up two of the premier girls basketball teams in Class 5A, District 12, Bradenton ...
Read moreTue. Dec. 18, 2012 at 11:25 p.m. | Bob Putnam