Bradford High School’s Jagger Lancaster earned Olympic and traditional wins at the District 6-1A boys weightlifting meet, which was held April 8 at Fort White High School. Lancaster, who competes in the 169-pound class, had a first-place Olympic total of 400 pounds, which placed him 10 pounds ahead of Fort White’s Ashton Giddens. Lancaster…
Zane Mott, Matthew Rogers and Carsen Thomas earned second-place finishes for Union County High School at the District 6-1A weightlifting meet, which was held April 8 at Fort White High School. Rogers and Thomas earned their runner-up finishes in the Olympic event. Thomas had a 390-pound total (175-pound snatch, 215-pound clean and jerk) in…
Keystone Heights High School’s baseball team was held to two hits in a 10-0, five-inning loss to host Columbia on April 6. Columbia (13-9) entered the game as the fifth-ranked team in Class 5A. The Class 2A Indians (7-14) entered the game on a three-game winning streak, which began with a 6-4 win over Class…
A pitchers’ duel between Keystone Heights High School’s Kadence Massey and Trinity Catholic’s Caylee Barbe went the way of the visiting Celtics, who defeated the Indians 2-1 in nine innings on April 6. The Indians (8-10) went up 1-0 in the third when Bella Cumbo reached on an error and scored on an Amber Wagner…
Emma Handley drove in three runs and earned the win in the circle as the Union County High School softball team defeated visiting Bell 15-5 in six innings on April 6. The Tigers (11-6) fell behind 3-0, but took a lead they never relinquished with a six-run second. The inning began with three consecutive singles…
BY CLIFF SMELLEY [email protected] Union County High School’s baseball team scored the game’s first 12 runs in defeating host Baker County 13-7 on April 2. The Tigers (16-6) had eight runs in the fourth to go up 11-0. Evan Christmas singled, while Jasen Sullivan and Brezdyn Browning reached on an error and a walk, respectively,…
BY CLIFF SMELLEY [email protected] Bradford High School was coming off two big wins in baseball, but couldn’t get its third win in a row, losing 7-0 to host Baker County on April 3. Ryland Rike batted 2 for 3 for the Tornadoes (8-12), but the rest of the team went a combined 3 for 22.…
BY CLIFF SMELLEY [email protected] Bradford High School’s Parviele “P.J.” Lee broke the school record in the shot put as the Tornadoes competed in the April 3 Columbia High School Tiger Invite. Lee won the shot put with a distance of 47 feet, 11.25 inches. He had one of two wins for the boys team, which…
BY CLIFF SMELLEY [email protected] Keystone Heights High School’s track and field teams competed at the April 4 Don Hall Meet in Orange Park, with the boys and girls 4x800m relay teams both setting new school records. The team of Jason Parales, Hunter Sheppard, Ryder Thomas and Ryeland Wahl placed first in the boys 4x800m with…
BY CLIFF SMELLEY [email protected] Amia Bethea and Melinda Mabrey each won an event for the girls team, while Matthew Rogers had a win for the boys team as Union County High School competed at Columbia High School’s Tiger Invitational on April 3. Bethea crossed the finish line first in the 200m with a time of…
