As a freshman on Strawberry Crest’s senior-loaded softball team, Stephanie Dwyer doesn’t always see a lot of playing time. So, when she saw some action in an 18-4 win over Brandon March 21, she made it count. Dwyer led the team with four hits and four RBI, and scored one run in a 4-for-5 day […]
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CHEERLEADING + SCHS team will be on TV Hot off the heels of a national competition, Strawberry Crest fans will be able to catch a replay of the action this weekend. The Chargers took a fifth-place finish in their division at the National High School Cheerleading Championship, out of a field of 32 other schools. They […]
Continue ReadingATHLETE OF THE WEEK: Mark Moclair
In his only start of the Saladino Tournament, Strawberry Crest hurler Mark Moclair was nearly untouchable. He threw a complete-game no-hitter March 12 against Plant City with eight strikeouts, broken up only by two walks. Even before last Wednesday, he was riding high after three innings against Middleton: nine strikeouts, no walks, no hits. You’ve […]
Continue ReadingStrawberry Crest softball team crushes the competition
Many sports fans like to show up fashionably late to a game, a criticism often thrown at fans of the Los Angeles Dodgers. Those fans have a reputation for showing up after a few innings have passed, but they don’t always miss much. Anyone who tries that at a Strawberry Crest softball game runs the […]
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BASKETBALL + Tigers travel team takes title Plant City travel ball recently added another team to its ranks, the Tigers, and they got started by making an on-court statement. They won the Spring Fest Shootout last weekend, in Orlando, after entering the tournament as a the lowest seed. The Tigers lost their first two pool-play games […]
Continue ReadingATHLETE OF THE WEEK: Garrett Wright
Durant High School has been focusing more on its hitting in 2014, and one of the seniors at the forefront of the movement is Garrett Wright. The center fielder sports the Cougars’ third-best batting average, at .435, but leads the team with eight RBI and nine runs scored. This past week, he went 1-for-3 with […]
Continue ReadingDurant Baseball: Life after Tyler Danish
Sometimes, as the 80s hair rockers Cinderella once sang, “You don’t know what you’ve got ‘til it’s gone.” That’s not the case with Durant baseball, though. It knew exactly what it had with star pitcher Tyler Danish. But, now that he and two other pitchers have graduated, the Cougars have had to adjust to playing […]
Continue ReadingWHAT’S ON KLINE’S MIND? Learning is part of the job
When I’m not on assignment, I sometimes find myself fielding questions about my job. A lot of the time, the question is something along the lines of, “How do you find your stories?” Other times, it’s something like, “How is such-and-such team doing, and how far can they go this year?” I don’t normally surprise […]
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BASEBALL/SOFTBALL + Cougars, Raiders renew rivalry On the boys’ side, March 4’s renewal of the Redman Rivalry was fairly close. Durant pulled away in the fourth inning and held on for a 3-0 victory at home, thanks to strong pitching from seniors Ryan Barfield and Jacob Scolaro. Together, they gave up three hits and one walk, […]
Continue ReadingATHLETE OF THE WEEK: Casey Decatur
There were a few notable performances in both of Durant’s first-ever lacrosse home games, but nobody took over quite like Lady Cougars freshman Casey Decatur. She torched Jefferson’s defense to the tune of seven goals, securing a 12-4 lead and killing the Lady Dragons’ momentum spurts at all the right times. You were on fire […]
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