Bradford High School’s softball team led for the first four innings, but host Newberry rallied and eventually won with a three-run sixth inning, defeating the Tornadoes 11-9 on April 2. The Tornadoes (2-9) scored five runs in the top of the first. Kingslee Phillips singled and scored on a Taryn Flowers triple. Two runs later…
Bradford High School’s flag football team turned the ball over four times — including twice on goal-to-go opportunities — and was hurt by several times on deep passes by visiting Buchholz in a 26-7 loss on April 2. The Class 2A Tornadoes (4-4) led for most of the first half, but the Class 3A Bobcats…
Bradford High School’s softball team got off to a good start, but just couldn’t keep up with number-one seed Lake City, which defeated the Tornadoes 17-11 in the semifinals of the Suwannee Middle Athletic Conference tournament on March 31. The fourth seed Tornadoes started the game with a triple from Bristol Manning, who then scored…
BY CLIFF SMELLEY [email protected] Lake Butler Middle School’s baseball team was held to four hits in a 6-0 loss to third seed Baker County in the semifinals of the Suwannee Middle Athletic Conference on March 31. The second seed Tigers (8-4) had runners in scoring position in all but one of the five innings. Braxton…
BY CLIFF SMELLEY [email protected] Lake Butler Middle School rallied late, but couldn’t overtake second seed Baker County, which defeated the third seed Tigers 10-7 in the semifinals of the Suwannee Middle Athletic Conference tournament. The Tigers (10-5) trailed 9-2 before scoring three runs in the sixth. Katelynn Bennett drove in a run on a single,…
BY CLIFF SMELLEY [email protected] In what was the Jacksonville Jaguars Foundation/Farah and Farah Prep Game of the Week, the Bradford High School flag football team got two touchdown passes from Riley Shuford and two interceptions from Ny’asia Lopey in a 27-15 win over visiting Columbia on March 19. Shuford completed 8 of 14 passes for…
BY CLIFF SMELLEY [email protected] Bradford High School’s softball team was no match for the top overall team in the Florida High School Athletic Association/MaxPreps power rankings as the Tornadoes lost 17-1 to host Baker County in four innings on March 30. The Class 4A Wildcats (15-0) scored nine runs in the first two innings before…
BY CLIFF SMELLEY [email protected] Bradford High School defeated visiting Santa Fe 4-3 in girls tennis on March 3, but couldn’t make it two in a row, losing 4-3 at Ridgeview on March 10. The Tornadoes (2-6) went 3-2 in singles play against Santa Fe, with Kaiya Thompson winning 8-1, Jaimee Lin winning 8-4 and Nova…
BY CLIFF SMELLEY [email protected] Bradford High School’s baseball team made it a one-run game in the second inning, but couldn’t push any more runs across in a 6-3 loss to host Gainesville on March 27. With two outs and no one on in the second, the Tornadoes (6-11) got a single from Kyler Hall and…
BY CLIFF SMELLEY [email protected] Keystone Heights High School lost its third straight in baseball, with visiting Palatka overcoming an early deficit to defeat the Indians 8-5 on March 27. The Indians (4-13) scored the game’s first two runs in the bottom of the first. Destin Harnage reached on an error, while another error on a…
