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Girls basketball: Off its game, Steinbrenner still prevails
LUTZ — Steinbrenner senior Bailey Hooker finished with nine points, nearly half her season average. Her protege in the pivot, sophomore Rachel Briere, missed much of the game because of early foul trouble. And in another sign of their subpar performance Wednesday, the Warriors had more turnovers (18) than field ...
Read moreWed. Dec. 19, 2012 at 11:10 p.m. | Joel Anderson
Times' all-Hillsborough volleyball team
Player of the Year Sidney Brown, Jr., OH, Berkeley Prep Why we picked her: Brown ably filled the shoes of Jordan Burgess and Mackenzie Dagostino, two of the most decorated players in Hillsborough and Berkeley Prep history. She was the undisputed leader of the Bucs’ run to the Class 4A ...
Read moreWed. Dec. 19, 2012 at 5:51 p.m. | Joel Anderson
Times' all-Hillsborough County boys and girls cross country teams
Boys Runner of the Year: Abdin Fator, Sr., Sickles Why we picked him: A Sudan native (his family’s escape from its native country’s oppression was the subject of a Tampa Bay Times story), Fator’s breakthrough senior year featured six victories and two runnerup finishes. Following the most disciplined offseason of ...
Read moreSat. Dec. 15, 2012 at 12:56 p.m. | Joey Knight
O'Brien's game better suited to Sickles' comfort zone
There were bitterly cold days in South Dakota and lonely nights in North Carolina, times when Cassidy O’Brien might as well have been alone both on and off the court. She was far from her friends, her former basketball teammates and then her father over the past two years. Those ...
Read moreFri. Dec. 14, 2012 at 6:02 p.m. | Joel Anderson
Basketball: Hillsborough boys & girls super 7
Records through Wednesday Boys 1. Jesuit (7-0): Unchallenged Tigers winning by average margin of 34.4 points 2. Tampa Prep (8-0): Six-foot-9 frosh Juwan Durham averaging nearly double double (17.4 ppg, 9.4 rpg) 3. Wharton (7-0): Best Wildcats team since Butler alum Shawn Vanzant’s senior year (2006-07) 4. Berkeley Prep (9-0): ...
Read moreThu. Dec. 13, 2012 at 11:48 a.m. | Times Staff
Girls basketball: Hillsborough super 7
Hillsborough basketball super 7 Records through Wednesday Girls 1. Seffner Christian (7-0): The Crusaders have had few — if any — challenges en route to an undefeated start, winning their first seven games by an average of 46 points. They won their last game 74-5, shutting out Brooks-DeBartolo Collegiate in ...
Read moreThu. Dec. 06, 2012 at 6:32 p.m. | Joel Anderson
Girls basketball: Sickles finds way to win close one
DOVER — Cierra Wheatley missed a shot right under the basket, Alexis Allen missed another close attempt and Dessi Rembert came up with the offensive rebound and banked in the follow-up. With that basket, Sickles narrowed Strawberry Crest’s lead to three heading into halftime. Turns out, the Gryphons’ final possession ...
Read moreWed. Dec. 05, 2012 at 12:05 a.m. | Joel Anderson
Boys basketball: Chargers make nine 3-pointers, ease past Gryphons
DOVER — When the Sickles girls basketball team’s bus blew a tire on the 26-mile trip to Dover for Tuesday’s doubleheader at Strawberry Crest, the boys team’s minivans backtracked to pick them up. The points for chivalry were the easiest ones the Gryphons would manage all night. Defense and dead-eye ...
Read moreTue. Dec. 04, 2012 at 9:40 p.m. | Joey Knight
Hillsborough boys hoops preview
The final four Hillsborough County’s preseason top four, listed with 2011-12 record 1. Jesuit (27-2): Four starters return from veteran coach Neal Goldman’s best team, which finished a game shy of the program’s first final four berth since 1984. If there’s a deficiency on this roster, we haven’t seen it. ...
Read moreWed. Nov. 21, 2012 at 10:15 a.m. | Joey Knight
Hillsborough girls basketball preview
When everyone was finally together and it was time for tipoff, Freedom coach Laurie Pacholke was as anxious as anyone in the gym to see how it would all unfold. The Patriots were billed as a virtual all-star team, a high school girls’ version of the Miami Heat: a rising ...
Read moreTue. Nov. 20, 2012 at 6:19 p.m. | Joel Anderson
Football: Sickles 31, Alonso 29
TAMPA — Sickles beat Alonso by a foot — the right foot of junior Daniel Lezotte. In a thriller that featured three lead changes in the final 124 seconds, Lezotte kicked a 43-yard field goal with three seconds left to lift the Gryphons."I had a whole bunch of adrenaline," Lezotte ...
Read moreFri. Nov. 09, 2012 at 9:46 p.m. | Don Jensen
Region volleyball: Beating Clearwater a sweet treat for Steinbrenner
CLEARWATER — With Clearwater three points from winning the first game, Steinbrenner coach Laura Stegenga called her second timeout and ordered the team over to the bench. She didn’t fuss at her players. She didn’t scrap their old strategy for a new one. Instead, she simply gave them a little ...
Read moreTue. Nov. 06, 2012 at 9:34 p.m. | Joel Anderson
FHSAA: No tiebreaker for Class 6A, District 8
Hillsborough and Armwood will retain their playoff berths after the Florida High School Athletic Association announced Monday that it would not immediately rule on an eligibility issue that could have created a three-way tie in Class 6A, District 8. The FHSAA is still reviewing the academic eligibility of a football ...
Read moreMon. Nov. 05, 2012 at 10:05 a.m. | Joel Anderson
Hillsborough County AD: 6A-8 teams ready for tiebreaker if needed
Football coaches at Armwood, Hillsborough and Sickles have been told to prepare for a three-way tiebreaker at Hillsborough High on Monday, pending the Florida High Schools Athletic Association’s ruling on an eligibility issue that could cause upheaval in the district playoff race. Hillsborough County athletic director Lanness Robinson said the ...
Read moreSun. Nov. 04, 2012 at 6:27 p.m. | Joel Anderson
Football: Sickles 51, Leto 6
TAMPA — On the first play from scrimmage Friday, sophomore Ray Ray McCloud took a handoff 42 yards for a touchdown, and Sickles defeated Leto 51-6. McCloud rushed for 104 yards on five carries in the first half. Senior Nate Mills went 3 of 6 with a pair of touchdowns ...
Read moreFri. Nov. 02, 2012 at 9:33 p.m. | Christian Sandler