LAND O' LAKES - In order to accomplish something the Land O' Lakes' senior girls basketball players never had, it took a pair of freshmen to come up huge Thursday night. ...more

January 11, 2008

LAKE PLACID — A holiday hangover — and the lack of personnel — hit the Lake Placid girls basketball team hard on Monday night. The Avon Park Red Devils showed no mercy for the depleted Green Dragons, taking a six-point lead after the first quarter, and using superb defense to ignite their fast break, holding Lake Placid scoreless for two-plus quarters en route to a 54-8 thumping. ...more

January 9, 2008

Mel Thomas scored 19 points and showed off her long-range game as Connecticut opened its second week as the No. 1 team in the nation by routing Army 82-33 on Monday. ...more

January 1, 2008

BELLVIEW — Sebring senior Whitney Lee scored 10 of her team-high 18 points in the fourth quarter and the Blue Streaks defense came up huge in a 58-49 victory over the Lyman Greyhounds (Orlando) in the second round of the Lady Rattlers Holiday Tournament on Friday. ...more

December 30, 2007

Gulf point guard Nicole Adams scored 15 points, leading the Bucs girls basketball team to a 33-24 semifinal victory over Deltona Trinity Christian Academy on Friday. ...more

December 29, 2007

Throughout the post-lockout era in Tampa Bay, the groundswell around the Lightning's inconsistencies often pointed squarely at the play of the team's goaltenders - no matter who they were. ...more

December 23, 2007

The host Clearwater Tornadoes kept their record unblemished with a 70-45 win over Alonso in the final of the Bright House Networks Shootout. Yet the lopsided win wasn't enough to satisfy Clearwater. ...more

December 23, 2007

SEBRING –– Land O Lakes forward Kayli Keough signed a Division I basketball scholarship with Florida State University two weeks ago. The 6-foot-2 jumping jack showed why the Seminoles want her by scoring a game-high 18 points, pulling down 15 rebounds and blocking five shots to lead the Gators to a 38-30 win over Sebring on Saturday. "She was big, coordinated and had real long arms," said Blue Streak forward Hannah Shoop. "She could also handle the ball and run the floor and is one of the best players I've played against. ...more

December 17, 2007

LAND O' LAKES - Even though Joe Silvestri led the Nature Coast Technical Sharks Tuesday night with a game-high 20 points and eight rebounds, it was his play midway through the fourth quarter that helped the Sharks to their 4A-8 42-33 win over Sunlake. ...more

December 16, 2007

LAKE PLACID — Playing back-to-back games caught up with the Lake Placid girls basketball team at the worst possible time. McKeel Academy used a patient offense and a game-high 12 points from center Ciara Cox to beat a fatigued Green Dragon squad 40-27 in a Class 3A-District 10 game on Friday night. After edging Clewiston by one point in a fast-paced, physical contest on Thursday night, Lake Placid, which dresses only seven players, ran out of gas in the second half against the taller Wildcats. "It looked like we were tired from playing on Thursday night," said Green Dragon coach Shonda Legree. "We weren't getting up and down the floor like we normally do. We don't have a lot of depth, so the girls have to play pretty much the entire game. ...more

December 16, 2007