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Softball: Plant City 1, Newsome 0
PLANT CITY — Coming off a 9-8 loss to Riverview, Plant City coach Heidi Kouveras gave MacKenzie Audas extra work in Monday's practice, challenging her ace to challenge hitters more.Audas took that message to heart by striking out 13, two shy of her single-game high, and driving in the lone ...
Read moreTue. March 01, 2011 at 10:37 p.m. | Steve Lee
Hillsborough softball preview
PLANT CITY — After watching her most versatile player get beaned by Brandon’s Kayla Goff — as hard a thrower as you’ll find in Hillsborough County — last February, Plant City coach Heidi Kouveras momentarily panicked. Makensie McAvoy, then a Raiders sophomore, already was playing out of position. Would she ...
Read moreMon. Feb. 07, 2011 at 10:03 p.m. | Joey Knight
Players on the brink of a breakthrough
More than likely, you've seen at least one of them this summer without realizing it. They're all around, really, from seven-on-seven to summer leagues to soccer camps: fledgling prep stars poised to burst from their cocoon of obscurity. These are the athletes who will break through in the 2010-11 school ...
Read moreTue. July 06, 2010 at 5:44 p.m. | Times Staff
Times' All-Suncoast softball team
Player of the YearMadison O’Brien, Sr., Palm Harbor UniversityGifted in every facet of the game, the senior shortstop put together a season to remember for the Hurricanes. O’Brien, a four-year starter, guided PHU to the PCAC title game and its second straight district title. O’Brien possess a dangerous bat, has ...
Read moreFri. June 11, 2010 at 8:38 p.m. | Times Staff
5A softball: Defense, Cox lift East Bay over Plant City
GIBSONTON — Just as it has all season, East Bay relied on strong defense and the right arm of pitcher Kayla Cox to defeat Plant City 2-0 in Friday's Class 5A region semifinals. Cox scattered four hits and worked out of several jams to record the shutout. She walked the ...
Read moreFri. April 30, 2010 at 3:55 p.m. | Times Correspondent
5A softball: Ace Audas on the mark for Plant City
OCALA — Plant City's Mackenzie Audas was nearly perfect against Forest in the Class 5A region quarterfinals Tuesday. The UCF commit fanned 15 in a complete-game one-hitter as the Raiders (19-7) won 2-0 and earned their first playoff win since 2002. Audas set down the first 15 hitters, but lost ...
Read moreTue. April 27, 2010 at 6:55 p.m. | Times Correspondent
5A-8 softball: Timely bunt boosts East Bay over Plant City
From the third base coach’s box, East Bay’s Glenn Rodriguez issued a sign Friday night that can make a coach look like a genius or a joke. Nina Caisse took the sign, executed a drag bunt, and made Rodriguez look like Joe Torre. Caisse’s two-out, fifth-inning bunt scored sister Allysa ...
Read moreFri. April 23, 2010 at 11:08 p.m. | Joey Knight
5A-8 softball: East Bay rallies, meets Plant City in championship
PLANT CITY — Give East Bay ace Kayla Cox a one-run lead, and it typically stands up like a Marine during inspection. But in the season's biggest game Wednesday, the Indians needed their rally caps as much as Cox's rise ball.Trailing by a run, the top-seeded Indians (18-7-1) staged a ...
Read moreWed. April 21, 2010 at 8:20 p.m. | Joey Knight
Hillsborough: District softball preview
PLANT CITY — Perhaps the most inspirational postgame pow-wow of Heidi Kouveras' coaching career was the one she chose to skip. For seven excruciating innings, Kouveras had watched her Plant City team allow itself to be flummoxed by East Bay ace Kayla Cox. On a mid-March evening, Cox's scorching fastball ...
Read moreSat. April 17, 2010 at 5:35 p.m. | Joey Knight
Hillsborough County top teams, softball leaders
Softball Super 71. Plant (19-4): Panthers dropped two of three in Kissimmee, but shined Tuesday in 7-0 romp of Bloomingdale2. Chamberlain (14-4): Chiefs suffered one-run losses to Miami Gulliver and Jacksonville Bolles in Kissimmee3. East Bay (16-7): Eleven Indians had hits in Tuesday’s 26-0 shellacking of Armwood4. Sickles (18-4): With ...
Read moreThu. April 08, 2010 at 11:09 a.m. | Joey Knight
Hillsborough softball leaders, top teams
Times’ Super Seven1. Chamberlain (13-2): Chiefs’ win streak at 13 after Amber Fullwood’s one-hitter Wednesday at Freedom2. Plant (16-2): Panthers prevail in Spring Fling despite missing a handful of key players in final3. East Bay (15-7): Catcher-turned-pitcher C.C. Rock may have delivered gutsiest performance of Spring Fling4. Newsome (14-4): In ...
Read moreThu. April 01, 2010 at 5:15 p.m. | Joey Knight
Hillsborough County softball leaders, top teams
Times’ Super 71. Chamberlain (11-2): Chiefs, on an 11-game win streak, catapult three spots after defeating Plant and Gaither on consecutive nights2. Plant (12-2): Panthers get a tough opening-round draw — Bradenton’s Lakewood Ranch — in Spring Fling3. Newsome (10-3): Wolves, averaging six runs a contest, enter Spring Fling on ...
Read moreThu. March 25, 2010 at 2:02 p.m. | Joey Knight
Hillsborough Co. softball leaders
Times’ Super 71. Plant (8-1): Panthers have won their five district games by a combined score of 35-52. East Bay (8-4): Coach Glenn Rodriguez wants it known: His defense behind Kayla Cox is pretty good, too.3. Newsome (7-3): Wolves coming off impressive wins over Riverview and Plant City.4. Chamberlain (7-2): ...
Read moreThu. March 18, 2010 at 11:53 a.m. | Joey Knight
Plant City mistakes help East Bay secure easy win
PLANT CITY — From her spot in the third-base coaches box, Heidi Kouveras made the evening's most brisk dash for home Tuesday night. No sooner than East Bay ace Kayla Cox ended the game with her ninth strikeout for a 3-0 Indians win, Kouveras was gone. Fed up by another ...
Read moreTue. March 16, 2010 at 7:38 p.m. | Joey Knight
Hillsborough County softball leaders
Times’ Super 71. Plant (7-1): Behind pitchers Miranda Clark and Rose Yanger, Panthers have shut out past three foes.2. East Bay (7-4): Indians are 5-0 in county’s best district behind Kayla Cox, who has yet to surrender an earned run.3. Newsome (6-3): Dropped two of last three entering tonight’s game ...
Read moreThu. March 11, 2010 at 2:06 p.m. | Joey Knight