ORLANDO-With just 3:06 to play and trailing by nine points, quarterback Nick Tronti scored from 2 yards out to pull Ponte Vedra to within two points of heavy favorite American Heritage 35-33. The Sharks clawed back into the game after being down the entire second half. They trailed 21-20 in the entire third quarter but...Read More

ORLANDO-It’s not surprising when an area team wins a state title in golf, in fact its quite common, yet it’s almost unheard of when a local individual wins a state title. The fall of 2016 brought us not only one individual state golf title but two in a week at the Mission Inn and Resort Club in Howey-in-the-Hills outside of Orlando....Read More

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...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...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...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...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 begin with the fall and continue in Part II with the winter and Part III...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 begin with the fall and continue in Part II with the winter and Part III...Read More

ORLANDO-The Division I Pee Wee Sweetwater Hawks (ages 9-12) defeated the North Raleigh Bulldogs (NC) 25-0 to win the National Championship in the 60th annual Pop Warner Super Bowl at ESPN Wide World of Sports Complex at Disney World. Sweetwater came into their championship game having defeated the North Philly Aztecs in round one, and...Read More

JACKSONVILLE-“I’ve been waiting for this moment, all my life” was a great lyric Phil Collins sang about in the 1980’s. Perhaps the song was in the mind of longtime Fletcher athletic director Joe Reynolds, who had been waiting for this moment for a long time, 17 plus years in fact. In one of the closest competitions in the...Read More