October 7th, 2009 05:12pm
by John Patton
We have a pretty full slate of football games in front of us this week, but look ahead to next Thursday and Friday and it is quite bare.
Branford, Fort White, Hawthorne, Santa Fe, Suwannee, Taylor County, Union County and Williston all are off. Columbia is scheduled to have a bye, though school officials are trying to put together a last-minute home game with Clermont East Ridge (which actually would be a nice matchup).
Gainesville and Buchholz will meet Thursday night at …
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September 23rd, 2009 12:14pm
by John Patton
Recently, we named Marcie Hampton our volleyball player of the decade and 2003 GHS as the volleyball team of the decade. Talking with Buchholz coach Jeff Reavis about the picks, he suggested compiling an all-decade team. Sounded good to me. I even added a second team.
Please feel free to respond with selections of your own (but be nice… we had some real, um, socially challenged folks respond a few months back to the all-decade boys basketball team, and these teams …
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August 17th, 2009 03:54pm
by John Patton
There are numerous local football teams playing tough schedules this season. My vote for the toughest goes to Fort White, which has one of the most brutal early season slates I’ve seen in many years.
Check this out …
Following a preseason classic game against Columbia (which might be the area’s No. 1 team), five of the Indians’ first six games are at Madison County, home against Newberry, home against Union County, at 2008 Class 1A state champion Tallahassee North Florida Christian …
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June 25th, 2009 01:53pm
by John Patton
P.K. Yonge’s dominance of its classification continued in 2008-09, as the Blue Wave won the Dodge Sunshine Cup All-Sports Award for the sixth consecutive year.
The school took the 3A public overall, as well as the 3A girls title. The P.K. Yonge boys placed fourth in 3A.
The Blue Wave have been overall winners in their classification every year since 2003, when they won the girls championship, but not the boys or overall.
Final rankings in each class are listed below.
CLASS 6A
1. Winter …
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June 17th, 2009 08:18pm
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The potential litigation discussed here came to fruition Tuesday when the Spokespeople for Florida’s Parents for Athletic Equity filed suit against the FHSAA for what it views as Title IX violations in Policy 6, which was passed by the FHSAA board of directors in April.
The Sun has obtained a series of e-mail correspondences between Florida Coastal School of Law professor Nancy Hogshead-Makar, the front-person in the suit, and FHSAA executive director Roger Dearing that occurred before litigation was …
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June 3rd, 2009 05:11pm
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While no one should get their hopes up too high, it appears the FHSAA
board of directors could be revisiting its decision to reduce schedules
for all sports (except varsity football and competitive cheerleading)
by 20 percent this Thursday and Friday at the final meetings of the
school year. The meetings will take place at the Orlando Airport
Marriott.
Board member/Oak Hall athletic director Jeff Malloy, the most
vocal FHSAA dissenter of the reductions, said he hopes public opinion
will sway previous pro-cut voters.
“The …
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May 29th, 2009 05:00pm
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Florida International gave Lafayette rising senior quarterback Nick
Bracewell his first Division I scholarship offer last week, according
to Hornets’ coach
Joey Pearson.
FIU isn’t alone in expressing interest in the 6-foot-3, 210-pounder
with 4.8 speed in the 40-yard dash and the arm to throw a pretty deep
ball. Tulane, Troy, Western Kentucky, Indiana, Central Florida and
Florida Atlantic are among the other Division I schools expressing
interest.
Pearson said Bracewell hasn’t finalized where he will camp over the
summer, but plans to make those decisions …
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May 11th, 2009 01:42pm
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The potential college choices are beginning to pile up for Gainesville High School senior-to-be Kevin Nelson.
An athletic 6-foot-1, 210-pound linebacker, Nelson entered last
week with scholarship offers from Central Florida and Arkansas. Then, a
few days ago, 2007 BCS champion LSU made an offer.
So far, the hometown Gators have shown interest, inviting Nelson
to Junior Day and a few spring practices, but haven’t pulled the
trigger on a scholarship.
At this point, Columbia running back Tiger Powell (South Florida)
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April 30th, 2009 11:45am
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I’ll give my full thoughts on the passing of Policy 6 by the FHSAA
board of directors at a later date, but here are a few quick opinions
for now …
* To those who are acting as if the FHSAA wanted to
reduce the number of games played by high school teams, ask yourself
why you think that way. It makes no sense for the FHSAA go in this
direction if the association didn’t think it was absolutely necessary.
Cutting games benefits the FHSAA in no …
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April 9th, 2009 05:01pm
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As expected, Fort Lauderdale Pine Crest junior Brandon Knight was named
the state’s Mr. Basketball winner this week after voting by a statewide
panel of high school basketball coaches and prep media representatives.
What might actually have come is a little bit of a surprise is
that Gainesville High School senior guard Greg Gantt finished second.
Now, saying “surprise,” has nothing to do with Gantt’s ability. What it
does have to do with is numbers.
Often, in voting for basketball awards, the biggest …
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