by ScottK | Apr 16, 2020 | Bloomingdale, Features, Jesuit, Leto
By Jarrett Guthrie Column TAMPA – Keeping up tradition takes work. Especially in non-traditional times. Everyone of our collective 813 baseball family is hurting right now, and moreover everyone we know is missing something. At 813Preps we have tried to make this time...
by JGuthrie | Mar 31, 2020 | Alonso, Armwood, Bayshore Christian, Bell Creek, Berkeley Prep, Blake, Bloomingdale, Brandon, Brooks DeBartolo, Cambridge Christian, Carrollwood Day, Chamberlain, Durant, East Bay, Events, Features, Freedom, Gaither, Hillsborough, Jefferson, Jesuit, King, Lennard, Leto, Middleton, Newsome, Plant, Plant City, Riverview, Robinson, Seffner Christian, Sickles, Spoto, Steinbrenner, Strawberry Crest, Tampa Bay Tech, Tampa Catholic, Tampa Prep, Wharton
Staff Report There are so many unanswered questions while we all adjust to the situations we now face due to the novel COVID-19 pandemic, and many more questions that haven’t even yet been asked. From our standpoint as a media outlet covering youth athletics, we have...
by JGuthrie | Mar 4, 2020 | Leto, Plant City
By Jarrett Guthrie Editor PLANT CITY – Three times Plant City senior Jarod Wingo wild-pitched runners into scoring position, but on each occasion the Raiders ace not so much wiggled off the hook, as pulled the fisherman out of the boat. Wingo was laser-focused in...
by JGuthrie | Mar 3, 2020 | Baseball Notebooks, Brandon, Chamberlain, Durant, Jesuit, Leto, Robinson, Sickles, Wharton
TAMPA – The 2019 Class 6A state champion Jesuit Tigers baseball team will be recognized on the field prior to Sunday’s game at George M. Steinbrenner Field as the New York Yankees host the Atlanta Braves. The Tigers claimed the title last June, defeating Dunedin 4-3...
by JGuthrie | Feb 25, 2020 | Baseball Notebooks, Berkeley Prep, Hillsborough, King, Leto, Plant City, Wharton
TAMPA – A debilitating back injury not only took Berkeley Prep’s Davis Childers off the baseball field, at one point the ailment even forced him from the classroom. But there was one thing the injury couldn’t take from Childers – his spirit. Childers and his family...
by JGuthrie | Feb 20, 2020 | Alonso, Bell Creek, Hillsborough, Jefferson, Jesuit, Leto, Robinson, Steinbrenner, Tampa Bay Tech, Track & Field
LUTZ – To say that Ally Szponar is “daddy’s little girl,” would be an accurate statement in the general sense of that phrase. However, with Ally and her father Coach Bobby Ennis, it goes way beyond that. These two are, according to the best historical research...