After a week of turmoil and devastation, Clay County school officials made the difficult decision to reopen schools and allow all after school activities to be resumed; meaning Week 4 of the junior high football season will go on as planned. While Week 3 was cancelled days after Irma ransacked the First Coast area forcing schools...Read More
Spread out between four counties, the First Coast Conference comprises one of the largest Pop Warner football conferences in the First Coast area. The league consists of teams from Callahan, Clay PAL, Fleming Island, Fernandina Beach, Jacksonville Beach, Oakleaf, Orange Park, Middleburg, Ponte Vedra, St. Augustine and Yulee. The conference competes in both Division 2 and Division 3 in Pop Warner and...Read More
Hurricane Irma forced St. Johns County to cancel school all last week and up till next Tuesday forcing all after school activities to be postponed; including all five middle school football games scheduled for September 13. St. Johns County Middle School Athletic Association football chairman Drew McClung confirmed via text that all five games consisting...Read More
Not even Hurricane Irma could cancel football this week, as the threat moved up football one day to Thursday for nearly all First Coast area teams. Some games were postponed or cancelled such as Duval Charter and Cedar Creek, Episcopal at Trinity Prep and St. Augustine and Ponte Vedra. Ponte Vedra refused to move...Read More
FRUIT COVE – With little to none practice this week after playing Mainland on Monday, Bartram Trail offense looked anything but rusty in a 49-21 win over Clay last night. Which begs the question, what would a full week of preparation looked like ? If last night’s production was any indication of what future opponents...Read More
FRUIT COVE – Despite their heads being somewhere else, you wouldn’t have known the Fruit Cove Flyers were a little distracted this week. When teammate Jacob Shedlin was recently diagnosed with a brain tumor, his teammates wanted to do something special for him to cheer him up. The players dedicated the Murray game to Shedlin...Read More
ORANGE PARK – A week ago, we witnessed a classic rematch between the defending North and South Division champions Oakleaf and Lake Asbury and it was speculated we would see them again seven weeks later in the North East Florida Athletic Conference championship game again. Unfortunately, a week later the highly anticipated rematch might have been...Read More
A showdown between No. 2 Fruit Cove and No. 5 Landrum set the tone for the season last week. Now we turn our attention to Week 3 and who has made the necessary adjustments. Our Week 3 Game of the Week features No. 6 Murray (1-1) taking on No. 2 Fruit Cove (2-0) in a...Read More
With the new playoff system in place, teams were forced to drop the cupcakes and play better competition. Which is why Week 2 brought us more solid games, not to mention several top rivalry games were played as well. Here is a rundown of some of the top performers from Week 2 and some of the...Read More