by JGuthrie | Feb 17, 2025 | Berkeley Prep, Bloomingdale, Gaither, Jesuit, Plant, Plant City, Robinson, Spoto, Tampa Catholic, Weekly Rankings, Wharton
1. Tampa Catholic (3-0) Tampa Catholic SS Cal Johnson The Crusaders are #1 after Week 1 after defeating preseason Top 10 teams Carrollwood Day and Berkeley Prep, along with Seffner Christian. Cole Bitman (3 doubles, 1 triple), Jose Carrero (3 doubles, 3 RBI) and Cal...
by JGuthrie | Feb 16, 2025 | Baseball, Features, Wharton
First pitch: the first of many goals for Wharton’s Turer By Jarrett Guthrie, Editor NEW TAMPA – Sitting behind the gate next to the home dugout at Wharton High junior Brody Turer rocked side-to-side, peering onto the field watching his team play its season...
by JGuthrie | Feb 12, 2025 | Baseball, Features, Lennard, Wharton
Wharton rallies past Lennard; earns Markle first win Wharton reliever Aaron Wonderley celebrates an inning-ending strikeout in the fifth, stranding a pair of Lennard runners. Wonderley earned the save, pitching three innings and allowing one unearned run. By Jarrett...
by JGuthrie | Feb 7, 2025 | Baseball, Bell Creek, Features, King, Plant, Plant City, Preseason Baseball, Sickles, Strawberry Crest, Sumner, Wharton
Preseason All-813Preps Watchlist: Infielders As part of our preseason interactions with head coaches in our yearly survey, we asked each coach for one player from their team and any from outside their program for our preseason All-813Preps watchlist. Any player that...
by JGuthrie | Apr 26, 2024 | Baseball, Features, Jefferson, Wharton
Mallo, Marroquin help Dragons edge Wharton, 3-2 Jefferson starter Mikey Marroquin started hot, retiring nine of the first 10 batters he faced, and finished his five-inning effort with eight strikeouts while giving up just three hits. The win improved his pitching...
by JGuthrie | Apr 17, 2024 | Alonso, Baseball, Baseball Round-Up, Berkeley Prep, Blake, Bloomingdale, Carrollwood Day, Foundation Christian, Gaither, Hillsborough, Jesuit, King, Lennard, Steinbrenner, Wharton
#6 Jesuit 2, IMG Academy 1 After a mercy-rule loss in Bradenton last week, Jesuit got a little payback on IMG at home on Tuesday, as the Tigers got a 15-strikeout performance from ace McCall Biemiller, and a door-closing save from Kaden Waechter (.2ip, H, 2 K’s)...
