It’s a surprise anytime a team with so many young players wins as often and easily as the Apopka girls soccer team has in 2010. The Blue Darters are out to an 11-0 start to the season.
On schedule Friday in the second round of the Florida high school football playoffs are huge matchups featuring local teams… Oak Ridge at Dr. Phillips; Winter Park at Seminole; DeLand at Orange Park.
The high school football regular season is officially in the books and the chase is on for teams wishing to become one of the last still standing in the state finals. Overall winners will be crowned in Orlando.
When the College World Series ended late Tuesday night at Rosenblatt Stadium, Apopka High School alum Robert Beary bottled up handfuls of infield dirt from the historic site after his first season at South Carolina was capped off with a national championship win.
Later this week the College World Series begins, on Saturday, June 19. And while area teams such as UCF and Stetson will not be taking part, it doesn’t mean Central Florida players have been left out. Florida and Florida State have a combined eight locals on baseball rosters.
With the final swing of his leg, in the last high school football game of young life, Boone’s Lucas Rawlings helped the East Seniors cap a come-from-behind 17-14 win in the annual Orange County Senior Bowl on Wednesday at Oak Ridge High School.
An Apopka defender makes a late-game interception, a Dr. Phillips point guard impresses against defending state champions, Orlando Magic is led by a coach of the month, a UCF football defensive end wins player of the week honors and a UCF hoopster has a big impact in a win for the Knight
The talk all week in the world of high school football was the five-overtime thriller at Bill Spoone Stadium as Apopka escaped Dr. Phillips with a 58-52 win in the Class 6A regional semifinals last Friday night.
A former Apopka baseball player won a Cy Young Award, two former Colonial High School football players starred for FAMU, a Winter Park running back scored the game-winner in the opening round of the playoffs and a women’s basketball and volleyball player at UCF come up big.
This week Ali Schrader leads Rollins College to a conference soccer title; Lake Mary’s Han Kim dominates the field with a driver and putter; running backs from Apopka and Bishop Moore led their football teams to district titles; and a former Edgewater and UCF alum has a big afternoon in Jacksonville.