By Matt Mauney | Staff Writer Myke Oyola, 11, is solely focused on basketball. He won the Most Outstanding Player award in the middle division (NCAA) in the first session of the fifth annual Plant City High School Coed Basketball Camp June 18-21. Oyola was moved to the highest division (NBA) during the second session […]
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JUST THE STATS 07.12.12
4,000 — The amount in dollars given to the Plant City Food Bank by O’Brien’s Pub of Plant City. About $3,500 was raised at the sixth annual O’Brien’s Charity Golf Tournament June 23, while the rest was donated by O’Brien’s.
Continue ReadingPHOTO GALLERY: Plant City Charity Golf Classic
By Matt Mauney | Staff Writer Plant City golfers hit the links for the United Food Bank and Services of Plant City during the sixth O’Brien’s Plant City Charity Golf Classic July 23, at Walden Lake Golf and Country Club.
Continue ReadingPHOTO GALLERY: Summer Sports Camps
By Matt Mauney | Staff Writer Although classes aren’t in session, students have been keeping busy this summer with various sport camps at Durant, Plant City and Strawberry Crest high schools.
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Athletics act as the “front porch” of a school or university. It’s a saying that the president of my alma mater, Georgia Southern University, Dr. Bruce Keel, always said, and something I find rings true, not only at the college level but also for high school and youth sports, as well.
Continue ReadingLITTLE GIANTS
Don’t let the term, “Little League,” fool you. Big things are happening at Mike E. Sansone Community Park in Plant City. For a program that has existed for nearly 60 years, Plant City Little League has garnered its most success and notoriety in recent years. This year, two teams in particular harbor high expectations for […]
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In the short history of Strawberry Crest High School football, perhaps no one knows the program better than John Kelly. The new SCHS head coach served on the school’s first coaching staff during the 2009 season and has spent the last two seasons on the opposite sideline as an assistant at Class 6A District 8 […]
Continue ReadingATHLETE OF THE WEEK: Steven Witchoskey
Turkey Creek Middle School rising eighth-grader Steven Witchoskey has been busy this summer. The 6-foot-1, 13-year-old has participated in a football camp at Durant High School, won four awards at a basketball camp at Plant City High and recently coached and played in a national championship baseball tournament at the ESPN Wide World of Sports […]
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