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...
by JGuthrie | Feb 17, 2020 | Alonso, Berkeley Prep, Bloomingdale, Jesuit, Leto, Newsome, Plant City, Preseason Baseball, Sickles, Steinbrenner, Weekly Rankings, Wharton
1. Jesuit This seems like a no-brainer. Jesuit battled its way to a fifth state championship last year, defeating Dunedin to claim the Class 6A crown. They return AND add to its entire pitching staff last season including starters Camden Minacci, Josh Mallitz, Justin...
by JGuthrie | Feb 14, 2020 | Alonso, Armwood, Berkeley Prep, Bloomingdale, Jefferson, Leto, Plant, Preseason Baseball, Sickles, Tampa Catholic
Editor’s note: Our preseason coverage has changed up a bit this season as the FHSAA has realigned the district, making our normal district previews a little bit obsolete with so many out-of-county teams mixed in with our Hillsborough Co. programs. So instead, we have...
by JGuthrie | Feb 13, 2020 | Bell Creek, Chamberlain, Leto, Newsome, Preseason Baseball, Riverview, Robinson, Sickles, Steinbrenner, Wharton
Editor’s note: Our preseason coverage has changed up a bit this season as the FHSAA has realigned the district, making our normal district previews a little bit obsolete with so many out-of-county teams mixed in with our Hillsborough Co. programs. So instead, we have...
by JGuthrie | Aug 10, 2019 | American Legion, Leto
West Tampa Post 249’s Bryan Perez makes the run to third base on Friday afternoon and was 3-for-3 with a homer and three RBI in his team’s 10-6 win over South Carolina Fort Mills Post 43. Photos and story by Mike Camunas TAMPA — It wasn’t the...
