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

DOWNTOWN-Not even temperatures in the high 90s could phase a hot Bartram Trail team in the 4th Annual Jacksonville Jaguars 7-on-7 tourney today. Twelve teams representing Brunswick (GA), Tallahassee Lincoln,  Bartram Trail, Terry Parker, Ed White, Baldwin, Ribault, Stanton, St. Augustine, Creekside, Fletcher and Raines participated in this years event. Teams played three pool games in the earlier part of the day and then...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

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...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