GAINESVILLE-Oak Hall went wire-to-wire winning its first ever North Florida Football Conference title easily in a 41-13 win over John Paul. Not surprisingly Oak Hall was well represented on the all-conference team which came out this week. Here is the 2016 All-Conference team as picked by the coaches within the conference.   North Florida Football All-Conference...Read More

Now that football is over, we move on to basketball season and what better way to start then Holiday Tournament action. There are several boys basketball holiday tournaments around the area over the next couple of weeks including a handful this week. The following is a run down of area tournaments to watch for the next couple of weeks. Keep...Read More

GAINESVILLE – It’s the usual suspects at the top of The Prep Zone Power Poll in the first regional basketball rankings of the season. Tradition-rich Ribault (Jacksonville), which has won four state titles and is third all-time with 20 consecutive postseason appearances, received one of the six first-place votes to edge No. 2 Creekside (St....Read More

ORLANDO-Carol City used a suffocating defense and just enough offense to win its first state title since 2003 and fifth overall in a 14-6 win over Lake Gibson at Camping World Stadium. Locked in a scoreless tie at the half, Nyquan Wright changed all of that. Wright rumbled 51 yards before being tackled at the 1-yard line. Wright followed that with...Read More

ORLANDO-Despite another district title and solid regular season, Trinity Christian heard the talk all year but ignored it. The gossip around town was what is wrong with Trinity. A loaded schedule featuring Cocoa (4A state champs), Columbia (7A playoff team), University Christian (Class 2A state champs), Tallahassee Lincoln (7A team), Tallahassee Godby (5A team), Fort Pierce Central (8A team), IMG...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 to University Christian in the off season helped lead...Read More

ORLANDO-Pahokee used a suffocating defense and just enough offense to claim its seventh overall state title in a 34-21 win over Baker in the 1A state championship game at Camping World Stadium. A pair of Rodney McKay touchdown runs (6, 10) gave the Blue Devils a 14-0 lead early in the second quarter. Baker (13-1) wouldn’t go away though as the...Read More

Hard to believe but this will be our final pick’em of the season. After 15 long weeks we have reached the end of the season. Of the 16 teams competing in Orlando for the state championship, four are from the Jacksonville area. Here are the final picks of the season. I need all picks in before Thursday...Read More

GREEN COVE SPRINGS-Despite his 6-2, 205 pound frame, Ponte Vedra senior quarterback Nick Tronti hasn’t really got a lot of attention from Division I schools. How @nickyt616 is not getting Power 5 offers amazes me. Kid is a baller. — Corey Davis (@ByCoreyDavis) December 3, 2016 Doesn’t matter to Tronti, who is committed to Charlotte and has...Read More

GAINESVILLE-In a rather surprising move today, the Florida High School Athletic Association released its tentative new football district/regional assignments for the 2017 and 2018 seasons. As voted on back in September, the FHSAA will be going to a new playoff format starting in 2017 and continuing in 2018. As part of the new format, teams in...Read More