ORANGE COUNTY — The Bartow Yellow Jackets were among the four Polk County teams that competed in the Metro vs. Florida Challenge at Apopka High last week to open the boys basketball season.
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WINTER HAVEN - Team Rainey won the 2019 Andre Berto Turkey Bowl held Saturday afternoon, Nov. 30, at the newly-renovated Lake Maude Park.
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WINTER HAVEN — The Polk State College men’s basketball team is off to a red-hot start — and people are taking notice.
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WINTER HAVEN — When the sun came up back on Saturday, Aug. 31, things did not look so great for the Winter Haven High football team.
BARTOW — Tavaris Johnson knew the real work was just beginning.
WINTER HAVEN — The Polk State men's basketball team opened the 2019-2020 regular season with an emphatic win, topping its guests from Advance Prep Academy 101-67 Nov. 1 at the college's Winter Haven campus.
WINTER HAVEN – The field was wet, the stakes were high and the coaches were brothers.
For the second straight season, Lake Wales High’s girls varsity golf team will be part of the Florida High School Athletic Association State Championships.
Fort Meade’s girls varsity volleyball team went mining for district treasure last week and struck gold.
Cristal Gomez is a sophomore at Frostproof High School and is on the cross country team. On October 12, Gomez won the county championship with a time of 18:55. Gomez started running cross country when she was in 6th grade.
KISSIMMEE - Neither the rain from a tropical system nor the wet natural grass playing surface at Poinciana High’s Eagle Field slowed the Bartow varsity football team on Friday, Oct. 18.
The Ridge Community High School football team needed help at the placekicker position.
Recently, the fall high school sports season centered around one specific theme – county competition.
BARTOW — The Bartow Yellow Jackets improved to 4-3 overall and 2-0 in district play with a 20-6 victory over Liberty High Oct. 11.
This week's "Athlete of the Week" feature is sponsored by Bond Clinic.
LAKE WALES – PBA Hall of Famer Norm Duke of Clermont will be among eight of the 2019 Go Bowling! PBA Tour season’s top eight money earners who will compete in the second annual PBA Clash, which will be taped by FOX Sports Monday, Oct. 21 at 7 p.m. from the Kegel Training Center in Lake Wales.
EAGLE LAKE — The Lake Region Thunder football fell in a close contest Oct. 4 to Poinciana, 29-27.
A Warner University football player died Oct. 8 after collapsing during a non-contact practice in Lake Wales.
With seven weeks gone in the 2019 high school football season, some area varsity teams are sizing up their chances to win a district or division title. Others are preparing to make the push for a playoff spot. And others are in self-evaluation mode while trying to complete the regular season…
William Harding is a senior at All Saints Academy and is a part of the boys swimming team. At a recent five-team meet, Harding won the 50-yard freestyle with a time of 23.33 seconds and won the 100-yard butterfly with a time of 56.33 seconds.
