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LAKELAND-It’s no secret the First Coast area has been and will likely always be a football town, but for at least one month it became a basketball town. As five area teams made the state championship and two more lost in the regional final (Elite 8). Palatka, Ribault, Temple Christian, North Florida Educational Institute and Providence all made the Final Four, while Raines and Creekside fell one game short of making the...Read More

LAKELAND-Before they head to Knoxville and Oxford and compete head-to-head for SEC and national championships, both Day’Neshia Banks and Rennia Davis had some unfinished business to settle leading their high school team to another state title. Davis (Tennessee) and Banks (Ole Miss) capped their senior year with their third state title in four years with a 72-31 win over St. Pete Lakewood Feb 25 at the Lakeland Center. Davis led the team with 26 points while Banks added 18 in their final high school game of...Read More

LAKELAND-It’s been a thrilling season for the Providence Girls Basketball team, and it can all come to a fulfilling end Friday Night in Lakeland as the Lady Stallions (27-0) play for the Class 4A State Title after defeating SLAM Academy 77-18 to advance to the title game. The game started out with Providence scoring 19 unanswered points jumping out on SLAM in the first period. The Stallion’s leader Maria Kuhlman scored five...Read More

ORLANDO-Leon Huey took this game quite personally, literally putting it into his own hands. A year ago, Huey a starting middle linebacker at Ribault saw his state title hopes dashed in a second round 26-20 loss to Suwannee. He made sure it didn’t happen. Huey who transferred from Ribault to University Christian in the off season helped lead U.C. to its 9th overall state title with a  24-8 win over Champagnat at...Read More

We look back at some of the top high school sports moments of the 2016-2017 school year from around the First Coast area. Whether its football, volleyball, swimming or cross country, we look back at another amazing year in high school sports. We began with the fall and continued in Part II with the winter and now we release Part III spring; before releasing our top ten stories of the year. April When the boys...Read More