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Tony Saladino, teacher, coach & local baseball icon, dies at 89

Tony Saladino, teacher, coach & local baseball icon, dies at 89 By Jarrett Guthrie, Editor BRANDON – Life is a bunt – a sacrifice. This simple sentence perfectly encapsulates...

Longtime Leto skipper JJ Pizzio resigns after 19 seasons

Longtime Leto skipper JJ Pizzio resigns after 19 seasons The 2018 All-813Preps Coach of the Year and three-time state semifinalist has accepted a teaching position at Plant City...

2025 All-813Preps Class 6A-7A Team

2025 All-813Preps Class 6A-7A Team 2025 Most Valuable Player (6A-7A) Jordan Yost produced his entire four-year career for the Gryphons, but saved his best for his senior season,...

2025 All-813Preps Class 1A-5A Team

2025 All-813Preps Class 1A-5A Team 2025 Most Valuable Player (1A-5A) Helping Jesuit to another district and region title, and his third-straight (Jesuit's fourth) final four...

Saladino named new head coach at Armwood

Saladino named new head coach at Armwood https://813preps.smugmug.com/2024-813Preps-High-School-Baseball-Season/6A-State-Semi-Bloomingdale-v-Buchholz-51624/i-ZjqnXH2/A Noah...

Guise’s home run starts 8-1 win for Sickles at Newsome

Apr 21, 2023 | Features, Newsome, Sickles

Guise's home run starts 8-1 win for Sickles at Newsome https://813preps.smugmug.com/2023-813Preps-High-School-Baseball-Season/Sickles-at-Newsome-42023/i-6Lf9vh6/A Sickles junior Cameron Guise is escorted back to the...

Terrapins can’t hold off Berkeley rally, Bucs win in extras

Apr 21, 2023 | Berkeley Prep, Features, Tampa Prep

Terrapins can't hold off Berkeley rally, Bucs win in extras https://813preps.smugmug.com/2023-813Preps-High-School-Baseball-Season/Berkeley-Prep-at-Tampa-Prep-42023/i-cKkLJRZ/A Tampa Prep catcher Jaden Holder tries to...

Richardson leads Crest in 2-0, pitcher’s duel win at Durant

Apr 21, 2023 | Durant, Features, Strawberry Crest

Richardson leads Crest in 2-0, pitcher’s duel win at Durant By Lily Belcher, Correspondent PLANT CITY – Strawberry Crest emerged victorious in a nine-inning pitcher’s duel against Class 7A-District 6 opponent Durant....

NAR Nightly Roundup 4/20/23

Apr 21, 2023 | Baseball Round-Up, Brandon, Chamberlain, Gaither, Jesuit, Lennard, Plant City, Steinbrenner, Tampa Catholic

⚾ Lennard 5, #5 Plant 3 Lennard answered a three-run fourth from Plant, with a crooked number of its own handing the visiting Panthers a loss. Trey Miranda tied the game with a double, Mike Locke gave the Longhorns the...

Plant’s Satin drives in three, shuts out Jefferson

Apr 19, 2023 | Baseball, Features, Jefferson, Plant

Plant's Satin drives in three, shuts out Jefferson By Brett Goodrich, Correspondent TAMPA – Plant senior Robert Satin only needed 86 pitches to complete his utterly dominant, two-hit shutout against Jefferson on...

NAR Nightly Roundup 4/18/23

Apr 18, 2023 | Alonso, Baseball Round-Up, Berkeley Prep, Carrollwood Day, Durant, Hillsborough, Newsome, Plant City, Sickles, Strawberry Crest, Tampa Prep

⚾ Hillsborough 2, Freedom 1 Hillsborough scored a pair on a Kyler Martin sac fly and an RBI single by Jackson Cande in a comeback win against Freedom. Junior Antonio Davis pitched all seven, allowing one run on five...

THE 8-1-3List Week 8, presented by The Hitting Academy

Apr 17, 2023 | Bell Creek, Berkeley Prep, Durant, Gaither, Jefferson, Jesuit, Plant, Sickles, Strawberry Crest, Tampa Catholic, Weekly Rankings

THE 8-1-3List Week 8 presented by The Hitting Academy 1. Sickles (17-2) https://813preps.smugmug.com/2023-813Preps-High-School-Baseball-Season/Saladino-Semifinal-Sickles-v-Alonso-31523/i-gF546Zk/A Sickles sophomore...

NAR Weekend Roundup 4/14-4/15/23

Apr 15, 2023 | Baseball Round-Up, Bell Creek, Berkeley Prep, Durant, Jefferson, Plant, Robinson, Seffner Christian, Sickles, Strawberry Crest, Tampa Catholic

⚾ #4 Durant 3, Wharton 2 Durant's Gavin Florio pitched a complete game, striking out five and allowing two runs as the Cougars won for the fifth-straight game. Noah Morales homered to left to put the Cougars up a pair...

Leto building for the future, but take district win in the now

Apr 15, 2023 | Baseball, Features, Hillsborough, Leto

Leto building for the future, but take district win in the now Story & photos by Chuck Frye, Staff Writer TAMPA -- Throughout Saturday afternoon, J.J. Pizzio's dialogue was pointed. "I'd like one guy to show up...

Durant avenges its last loss, with 3-1 win over Newsome

Apr 15, 2023 | Baseball, Durant, Features, Newsome

Durant avenges its last loss, with 3-1 win over Newsome By Brandon Wright, Features Writer PLANT CITY – Major League Baseball adopted a pitch clock this season in order to speed up game flow. No such rule exists...