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Today’s senior spotlight is on Cade Welborn of the Williston baseball team. Read more
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Today’s senior spotlight is on Payton Bumgarner of Gainesville High School. Read more
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Today’s senior spotlight is on Dave Mitchum of the Santa Fe High School baseball team in Alachua. Read more
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Today’s senior spotlight is on Weston Smith of the Williston baseball team. Read more
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Today’s senior spotlight is on Lauren Shaw of Eastside High School. Read more
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Today’s senior spotlight is on Jacob Pitts of the Chiefland High School baseball team. Read more
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Today’s senior spotlight is on Lars Hammersmark of Gainesville High School. Read more
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Today’s senior spotlight is on Autumn Oglesby of the Belleview softball team. Read more
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Today’s senior spotlight is on Kaiden Baker of the Chiefland baseball team. Read more
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Today’s senior spotlight is on Evan Graetz of the Buchholz boys’ tennis team. Read more
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Today’s senior spotlight is on Bailey Tucker of Buchholz High School. Read more
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Today’s senior spotlight is on Alex Dang of the Eastside baseball team. Dang is a National AP Scholar, a National Merit Finalist, Co-Valedictorian, Sunshine State Scholar, and team captain. Read more
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Today’s senior spotlight is on Gabby Leffler of Bell High School. Read more
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The Center Square — Florida says it can fill the black hole in many Americans’ lives caused by the COVID-19 suspensions or postponements of professional basketball, baseball, hockey, soccer an… Read more
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Today’s senior spotlight is on Joe Ukeiley of the Eastside baseball team, and a member of the National Honor Society. Read more
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Today’s senior spotlight is on 2-sport athlete Presley Paulling of Bell High School. Read more
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Today’s senior spotlight is on Corbin Grantham of Buchholz High School. Grantham, who is the son of University of Florida defensive coordinator Todd Grantham, played football and baseball for… Read more
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Today’s senior spotlight is on 2-sport athlete Zhai Smith of Oak Hall School. Smith was a team captain for the Eagles’ football team, which advanced to the 2nd round of the Class 2A state pla… Read more
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Today’s senior spotlight is on Katherine Gray of the Gainesville High softball team. Gray was a Gainesville Sun first team All-Area as a junior. In 2019 she was primarily at second base, but a… Read more
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Today’s senior spotlight is on Rocky DiBernardo of Oak Hall School. DiBernardo played football, basketball, and baseball for the Eagles. He was a part of Oak Hall’s first undefeated season in … Read more
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Today’s senior spotlight is Gregory Knox, who played baseball and football for Buchholz High School. Read more
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Today’s senior spotlight is Emily Barras of Trenton High School. Barras was a 2-sport athlete who participated in basketball and softball. Read more
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Today’s senior spotlight is DJ Murry of the West Port boys basketball team in Ocala. Murry finished out his Wolf Pack career as the 4th all-time leading scorer in school history with 945 poin… Read more
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Today’s senior spotlight is Hunter Thomas of the Lake City Columbia baseball team. Thomas, who is the son of head coach Brian Thomas, also has a 3.0 GPA. His favorite high school sports memor… Read more
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Today’s senior spotlight is Bridget Filer of the Gainesville High softball team. Filer has been both a player of the week and MVP, plus she’s been a student of the week, an A/B honor roll stud… Read more
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Today’s senior spotlight is Jillian Cassube of Bell High School. Cassube was a 3-sport athlete who participated in volleyball, basketball, and softball. Read more
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Today’s senior spotlight is Lance Minson of the Lake City Columbia golf and baseball teams. Minson, who lettered four years in baseball, won offensive MVP his junior year with a .340 batting … Read more
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Today’s senior spotlight is Alissa Humphrey of the Gainesville High softball team. Humphrey is a 3-time MaxPreps Underclass All American, a 3-time First Team 7A All-State selection, a 2-time … Read more
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On Saturday, Florida governor Ron DeSantis announced that all schools in Florida would remain in distance learning through the remainder of the academic year due to the COVID-19 pandemic, and … Read more
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Tonight is Day #1 of the NFL Draft and one area player who could eventually hear his name called hails from Ocala. Former Colt Freddie Swain, who had 43 catches for 648 yards and seven touchdo… Read more
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Thousands of steps to climb and exercise on continue to draw people to work out at Ben Hill Griffin Stadium, home of the Gator football team at the University of Florida. Read more
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Yesterday, Ocala Vanguard’s Maddie Cathey was named Girls Soccer Player of the Year. Cathey ended the season with a county leading 30 points as a defender. She finished with 10 goals and 10 a… Read more
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Last week, MaxPreps.com announced its all decade high school football team and there were several players from Florida who made the list. Read more
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Former Ocala Forest baseball player and current University of Florida senior Kirby McMullen has announced that he will be back next year in the Orange and Blue. When the NCAA announced last T… Read more
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Last month, the NCAA decided to suspend on- and off-campus recruiting until April 15th due to the spread of the coronavirus. However, on Wednesday, it announced that the dead period for recrui… Read more
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On Friday, March the 13th, Orange Park Oakleaf Softball Coach Christina Thompson started a grass-roots movement in an effort to appeal to the Florida High School Athletic Association (FHSAA) … Read more
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Yesterday the seven individual class finalists for the 2020 Florida Dairy Farmers Mr. Basketball and Boys’ Basketball Coach of the Year were announced. The Class 1A player of the year was Marc… Read more
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Hawthorne Mayor Matt Surrency is helping two Hawthorne High School teams get championship rings by launching a fundraising effort on Facebook. Read more
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Last night the Williston softball team cruised to a 14-4 win in five innings against Class 6A Buchholz of Gainesville. The host Red Devils scored 13 runs in the first three innings, finished… Read more
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The Gainesville Hurricanes aren't the only undefeated team in the area. The defending Class 1A state champion Trenton Tigers are a perfect 9-0. Darian Ingram’s perfect-game bid fell one batter… Read more
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There were two standing ovations offered by a crowd of 300 people at the March 10th Fellowship of Christian Athletes (FCA) Heart of Champions Banquet. Read more
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Last night, the P.K. Yonge baseball team cruised to a 12-0 win in six innings at Eastside. The Blue Wave put the game away early with two runs in the first, two runs in the second, and three … Read more
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Gainesville senior pitcher Alissa Humphrey tossed her third perfect game of the season on Friday night. The Jacksonville University signee struck out all 15 batters she faced as the Hurricane… Read more
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The little town of Hawthorne is home to just over 1,500 residents and sits about 20 miles east of Gainesville near the intersection of SR-20 and US-301. On most days, it's a quiet community in… Read more
And the streak continues. Read more
This afternoon at 4, the 22-5 Hawthorne boys basketball team will take on 23-3 Paxton in the Class 1A state semifinals at the RP Funding Center in Lakeland. Despite the loss of nine seniors, … Read more
From the Fellowship of Christian Athletes Sixty-five years ago, a young basketball coach wondered why athletes endorsed products like shaving cream and cigarettes, but not a Christian lifestyl… Read more
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