TAMPA — From a high vantage point, the pockmarks of brown dirt and puddles of standing water on Freedom's field were glaring Tuesday night, but the Venice Indians often looked like they were playing on sleek FieldTurf. On a surface ripe for sloshing, the Indians (16-5-3) instead made a splash, ...
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Tue. Feb. 02, 2010 at 7:49 p.m. | Joey Knight
TAMPA — Berkeley Prep's regular-season schedule is designed to prepare the Buccaneers for the playoffs, which loom in a week with district tournament openers. But before then, Class 3A Berkeley tested itself against Class 5A power Venice on Monday night. It was the Bucs' third game in four days — ...
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Mon. Jan. 11, 2010 at 8:49 p.m. | Eduardo A. Encina
VENICE — Rob Brashear remembers taking his Sickles team to Venice during his first year of coaching in 2000. The Gryphons returned to Tampa on the wrong end of a lopsided score. Not much has changed during the past nine years. The Indians made quick work of the District 9 ...
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Tue. Nov. 03, 2009 at 9:29 p.m. | Times Correspondent