With just three area teams still playing meaningful games, we are nearing the end of what has been a roller coaster ride of a high school spor…
JACKSONVILLE – North Port junior Kylah Buckle brought home the area’s lone individual track state title on Saturday when she won the girls’ 40…
It was a year of extreme youth for the area high school tennis teams. Combined with nearly a full season off following the coronavirus pandemi…
VENICE — It could have been easy for the Venice High baseball team to take Riverdale lightly in Friday night’s regional quarterfinal matchup.
Fresh off a comeback win against Bloomingdale this past Thursday, the Venice softball team has already turned its attention to Sarasota.
Some local high school athletes put their skills to the test against the state’s very best Friday, and others will do so today at the track an…
Girls first team
SEBRING – Throughout the concourse and in the parking lots behind venerable Firemen’s Memorial Stadium, the adults gathered in small clusters.…
PALMETTO — Emily Borresen’s two-out single drove in Whitney Waldo with the go-ahead run in the bottom of the sixth inning and Palmetto elimina…
VENICE — From the moment Becka Mellor woke up on Thursday morning, the Venice High softball player felt the nerves of that night’s do-or-die r…
Five area high schools will be represented at the track and field state championships this weekend at the University of North Florida in Jacks…
ENGLEWOOD — Long gone is the stretch of three seasons in which Lemon Bay won a total of four games. Also long gone is a subsequent span of fou…
ARCADIA — The summertime temperature was betrayed by a springtime breeze as Michael Russ took off at the sound of his coach’s voice.
The Venice High baseball team just wrapped up the hardest schedule in Florida, and one of its toughest ever put together.
The Venice softball team won 22 games this regular season and won its district for the first time since 2015, but none of that matters when th…
The Venice boys and girls track and field teams will be sending a combined 11 athletes — regional finishers with the top 16 marks in the state…
Venice High mask policy
VENICE — If you pay a visit to the first practice of any season for the Venice High football team there’s bound to be a new face or two in the crowd.
There comes a moment in every high school football coach’s tenure when the bat signal has to be flown over the soccer field, seeking a kicker.
No individual area athlete won a state championship in boys weightlifting this season, but several came close — including a handful of Tarpons…
Area high school track and field athletes were in action on Saturday — in Lakeland, Wesley Chapel and Punta Gorda, on the campus of Charlotte …
Michigan State announced on Friday it has informed football recruit Steffan Johnson that he will not be a part of the program following his ar…
PUNTA GORDA – Friday’s game got away from Charlotte, but they’ll get ‘em back.
VENICE — The Venice High softball team was prepared to do whatever it took to win the district championship against Riverdale on Friday night.
Each local high school will be represented at today’s regional track and field meets across the state.
CAPE CORAL — Experience trumped upstarts Thursday night when Mariner methodically worked its way back from an early deficit and walked it off …
VENICE — Simon Yochum wasn’t sure he would make the varsity baseball team at Venice High this year, and he definitely wasn’t expecting to be p…
ENGLEWOOD – A potentially magical season was on the ropes Tuesday night at Lemon Bay.