The latest sports news and stats from around Plant City.
Running the Show
Durant, Plant City and Strawberry Crest each participated in the 46th annual Nash Higgins Relays, held Saturday, March 5, at Leto High.
The following athletes finished in the top 10 in their events:
Durant
Trace Edmondson (seventh, boys shot put, 41-07.00)
Haftom Fliegelman (fourth, boys 1,600m, 4:42.18)
Olivia Graham (fifth, girls 100m hurdles, 17.63)
Jacob Harris (sixth, boys high jump, 5-08.00)
Kayden Mahan (seventh, boys 400m dash, 53.07)
Josh Martin (10th, boys 1,600m, 4:57.04)
Plant City
Cody Facer (ninth, 1,600m, 4:54.23)
Carly Smith (eighth, girls long jump, 15-03.00)
Team (fifth, boys 4x800m relay, 8:37.08; sixth, boys distance medley relay, 11:49.05; seventh, boys 4x100m relay, 45.10)
Strawberry Crest
Team (tenth, boys 4x200m relay, 1:50.56)
Teams compete in Saladino tourney
The Saladino Tournament is one of the biggest deals in the Tampa Bay area, and all three area baseball teams took part this year.
Strawberry Crest was the only team to win both of its early games. That put the Chargers in Wednesday's quarterfinals against Riverview, where they suffered a 3-1 loss.
Plant City did not make it that far, but they didn't leave without a highlight: on Tuesday, the Raiders picked up a 21-4 win over Chamberlain, marked by a 10-run second inning. In fact, all 21 Plant City runs were scored in the first four frames.
Durant took back-to-back losses to open the tournament, but did pick up a 10-1 win over Armwood on Tuesday afternoon.
The tournament will wrap up today.
