by JGuthrie | Apr 16, 2025 | Baseball, Baseball Playoffs, Berkeley Prep, Carrollwood Day, Features
Vargo burns up the bases as CDS bests Berkeley in extra innings By Jarrett Guthrie, Editor CARROLLWOOD – A meeting of aces as competitive and strikeout-filled as expected, was going to take someone making something happen. That something turned out to be havoc...
by JGuthrie | Apr 15, 2025 | Baseball Playoffs, Baseball Round-Up
⚾ 1A-District 9 ⚾ SLAM 7 #13 Cambridge Christain 6 After digging an early hole, SLAM battled back in the sixth, taking advantage of three Cambridge Christian errors and surrounding them with four hits, all culminating in a two-run Giancarlo Labrada double to put the...
by JGuthrie | Apr 15, 2025 | Baseball, Features, Sickles
Sickles’ humble Hit King Yost looks to lead one last hurrah By Jarrett Guthrie, Editor CITRUS PARK – It was like coming across bigfoot, or finding buried treasure, or having a UFO land in your backyard. “It was kind of like they saw a ghost,” Sickles head coach...
by JGuthrie | Apr 14, 2025 | Baseball Playoffs, Baseball Round-Up
⚾ 1A-District 9 ⚾ Seffner Christian 10 Zephyrhills Christian 0 – five innings Seffner Christian took control in the second inning with freshman Mason McBane getting his team on the board with a two-run single, then added another RBI single in the fourth, and...
by JGuthrie | Apr 13, 2025 | Berkeley Prep, Bloomingdale, Cambridge Christian, Carrollwood Day, Gaither, Jesuit, Newsome, Plant, Sickles, Strawberry Crest, Tampa Catholic, Tampa Prep, Weekly Rankings, Wharton
1. Bloomingdale (22-4) Bloomingdale junior RHP Vaughn Osting Last Week: Win, 2-1 at Newsome; Loss, 3-0 v Sickles Luke Long’s two-run double in the seventh inning helped Bloomingdale break up a no-hitter against neighborhood rival Newsome and win it’s 10th straight...
by JGuthrie | Apr 12, 2025 | Baseball, Bloomingdale, Features, Sickles
Sickles’ Taylor blanks Bloomy in regular season finale By Jarrett Guthrie, Editor VALRICO – Sickles was looking for a spark to launch them into the postseason, and faced a challenging three-game slate in the final regular season week against a trio of perennial...
by JGuthrie | Apr 12, 2025 | Baseball, Cambridge Christian, Features, Seffner Christian
Lancers answer coach’s challenge, win eighth-straight Cambridge Christian freshman Nathan Hazard watches his first varsity home run sail out toward right field in the first inning. Hazard was 2-for-3, adding an RBI single in the second inning and helping the...
by JGuthrie | Apr 11, 2025 | Baseball, Bloomingdale, Features
Super Dinzeo! By Brandon Wright, Features Writer VALRICO – Vinny Dinzeo Jr. led Bloomingdale in home runs and RBI last season and with those numbers, was expected to slot squarely in the middle of the Bulls lineup this year. But coach Kris Wilken had other plans....
by JGuthrie | Apr 11, 2025 | Baseball, Brandon, Features, King
King stacks runs early, fend off plucky Brandon King junior Xavier Gori singled in the game’s first run, starting off his third straight game with three RBI as the Lions defeated Brandon on Thursday. By Jarrett Guthrie, Editor TAMPA – Fighting for their...
by JGuthrie | Apr 11, 2025 | Baseball, Features, Steinbrenner, Sumner
Sumner, Parson hold off Steinbrenner for 6-5 win After getting a strikeout that ended the game, Sumner reliever Luke Parson spiked his glove and let out a primal scream as he walked toward his dugout. By Chuck Frye, Senior Staff Writer LUTZ – Ugly at times, stunning...
