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  • Region baseball quarterfinals roundup: King ace keeps his focus

    Region baseball quarterfinals roundup: King ace keeps his focus TAMPA — King senior right-hander Brett Morales admits that it sometimes takes him an inning or two to get comfortable on the mound. Once Morales locks in, however, he’s usually unshakable. On Thursday, even a 30-minute lightning delay couldn’t break Morales’ concentration. The Florida signee threw a three-hitter in King’s ...
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    Fri. May 03, 2013 at 12:37 a.m. | Bryan Burns

  • Baseball: Trials, tragedy put Wharton senior's spirit to the test

    Baseball: Trials, tragedy put Wharton senior's spirit to the test TAMPA — Scott Hoffman found Tucker Neuhaus sitting in their empty clubhouse, head down, shoulders slumped and mind clearly somewhere else. The game had long been over and Neuhaus was nursing a strained right quadriceps, yet another defeat and disappointment for Wharton in a season already heavy on both. At ...
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    Tue. April 30, 2013 at 9:29 p.m. | Joel Anderson

  • Spring football primer: Year of the Lineman

    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 ...
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    Tue. April 30, 2013 at 8:34 p.m. | John C. Cotey

  • Wharton's Chase Litton sees QB stock rise, gains a fan in Trent Dilfer

    Wharton's Chase Litton sees QB stock rise, gains a fan in Trent Dilfer   Chase Litton said he went to Georgia with a “chip on my shoulder,” a desire to prove his three-star arm was the equal of – or superior to – the four- and five-star recruits at the Elite 11 quarterback camp. He left the camp with the “Golden Gun” award, ...
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    Sat. April 27, 2013 at 3:53 p.m. | Joel Anderson

    • Recruit: Chase Litton
      Florida International University, LSU, University of South Florida, Western Michigan University

  • District baseball roundup: King relies on its depth

    District baseball roundup: King relies on its depth TAMPA — After only a handful of pitches, it was clear Brandon Caples did not — and would not — have his best stuff. The King senior, who came into the game with an 8-0 record and 1.25 ERA, was obviously not his usual self in the District 6A-11 championship ...
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    Fri. April 26, 2013 at 12:15 a.m. | Joel Anderson

  • Region softball roundup: Chargers' Tyler endures pain for win

    DOVER — The only thing higher than Sammy Tyler’s strikeout total Thursday was her pain threshold. Pitching with a partially torn left quad, the Strawberry Crest junior grimaced her way through a masterpiece: 12 strikeouts, two hits, no walks in a 5-0 victory against Palmetto in the Class 6A region ...
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    Thu. April 25, 2013 at 11:37 p.m. | Joey Knight

  • Three Wharton football players set to sign

    Three players from Wharton will soon sign with college football programs, according to Wildcats coach David Mitchell. Chief among the trio is Rocky Enos, a Times' all-Suncoast linebacker who plans to attend Webber International in Babson Park. Other Wildcats set to sign are offensive lineman Arieon Caldwell (Methodist University in ...
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    Wed. April 24, 2013 at 6:07 p.m. | Joel Anderson

  • 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 ...
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    Tue. April 23, 2013 at 11:07 p.m. | Joel Anderson

  • District softball: Delay doesn't deter Durant

    At Durant, the top-seeded Cougars spent a muggy Friday afternoon finishing off what they started on a rainy Thursday night — a shutout of sixth-seeded Wharton in the Class 8A, District 7 final. Senior ace Paige Davis tossed a five-hitter and had the official  winning RBI to lead the reigning ...
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    Fri. April 19, 2013 at 4:24 p.m. | Joey Knight

  • State tennis: Another title on tap for Plant girls

    Plant's girls are poised to win their third consecutive Class 4A championship after Blair Martin and Gabby Rodriguez qualified for the team singles finals and both doubles teams advanced Wednesday. The Panthers were tied for first place with at least one team at the end of the first day of ...
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    Wed. April 17, 2013 at 11:21 p.m. | Joel Anderson

  • District softball roundup: No. 5 seed Wharton surprises Bloomingdale

    District softball roundup: No. 5 seed Wharton surprises Bloomingdale DURANT — Class 8A, District 7 made another case for toughest district in the county Tuesday as fifth-seeded Wharton shocked second-seeded Bloomingdale 3-2 in the first district semifinal. Then sixth-seeded Alonso took defending state champion Durant the distance in a hard-fought, 1-0 Cougars victory. The Wildcats and Cougars will play ...
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    Tue. April 16, 2013 at 10:39 p.m. | Andy Warrener

  • Region tennis roundup: State again awaits Plant girls

    TAMPA — There were about a half-dozen slices of white birthday cake set atop the park bench. A celebratory sushi dinner awaited the girls when their intra-squad doubles match was over. Everyone was all smiles, seemingly just another day at the park for the defending Class 4A state champions. “It’s ...
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    Thu. April 11, 2013 at 9:55 p.m. | Joel Anderson

  • Region tennis roundup: Plant girls back on path to success

    TAMPA — Only a week from the state finals last year, Plant girls coach Margaret Drumsta got a phone call from her then-starting freshman Erica Oosterhout. In a bit of incredibly bad timing, Oosterhout had torn a ligament in her left knee during a soccer tournament and would be out ...
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    Tue. April 09, 2013 at 10:46 p.m. | Joel Anderson

  • District tennis: King flexes muscles for title sweep again

    TAMPA — King’s boys and girls teams each won six of seven events Tuesday to capture both titles at the 3A-9 district tournament for the second year in a row in anticlimactic fashion. Kiril Kirkov was victorious 6-0, 6-2 over Chamberlain’s Harrison Fisher at boys No. 1 singles to earn ...
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    Tue. April 02, 2013 at 8:51 p.m. | Bryan Burns

  • Girls track: 'Cats hurdlers race against time, not each other

    Girls track: 'Cats hurdlers race against time, not each other TAMPA — If they weren't friends, their rivalry might be fiercer. Their stares down the straightaway might be filled with as much animosity as intensity if they weren't teammates, classmates, nearly soulmates. "I wouldn't call it a rivalry," Wharton senior Mikayla Barber (pictured, left) says of the dynamic between her ...
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    Mon. April 01, 2013 at 1:03 p.m. | Joey Knight

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