Union County High School’s baseball team is the number-one seed in Region 3-Rural and will host a best-of-three semifinal series against fourth seed Madison County. The Tigers (18-7), who defeated Lafayette for the District 6 championship, will play the District 5 runner-up Cowboys (15-7) on Friday, May 1, at 7 p.m. and on Saturday, May…
Union County High School senior baseball player Erick Lasseter admitted he had been struggling at the plate late in the season, but he felt good after putting in work in the batting cage before the Tigers played Lafayette for the District 6-Rural championship. “I was in the cage today and fixed a couple of things…
Keystone Heights High School’s baseball season came to an end with an 11-1, five-inning loss to top seed Trinity Catholic in a District 4-2A semifinal game on April 15 in Ocala. The Indians (8-17) were held to one hit by Celtics pitcher Oakley Hayhurst. Keystone trailed 5-0 going into the fifth. Ryland Matuschke hit…
Bradford and Keystone Heights high schools will host quarterfinal games in the District 4-1A flag football tournament on Monday, April 20, at 6 p.m. The Tornadoes are the number-one seed and will play eighth seed Eastside, while the Indians, who earned the fourth seed, will play fifth seed Hawthorne. If Bradford wins, it will host…
Union County High School’s baseball team scored 12 runs in the first inning en route to a 19-1, four-inning win over fifth seed Taylor County in a District 6-Rural semifinal game on April 14 in Lake Butler. The top seed Tigers (17-7) will host second seed Lafayette (14-8) for the championship on Thursday, April…
A two-run fifth that featured sacrifice-fly RBI from Jake Peak and Brock Screen proved to be the difference in the Keystone Heights High School baseball team’s 11-9 win over fifth seed Interlachen in an April 14 District 4-2A quarterfinal game in Keystone. The fourth seed Indians (8-16) will travel to play top seed Trinity…
Bradford High School’s baseball season came to an end with a 14-4, six-inning loss to second seed Santa Fe in an April 14 District 5-3A semifinal game in Alachua. The third seed Tornadoes (9-15) took a 3-2 lead after scoring two runs in the top of the third. With two outs and no one…
Bradford High School’s baseball team scored seven runs in the first two innings and held on to get a 7-6 win over host Crescent City in the regular-season finale on April 10. A five-run first began Jackson Parmeter and Patrick Pendarvis each hitting a single before Parmeter scored on an error. Pendarvis scored when…
Bradford High School’s track and field teams competed at the April 9 Santa Fe Raiders Last Chance meet, with Ny’asia Lopey winning the girls triple jump with a distance of 32 feet, 2 inches. Lopey also earned a fifth-place finish in the long jump with a distance of 15-3.25. Kah’myra Hankerson also scored for…
Union County High School got two first-place finishes from Edward Durant and four wins overall at the April 9 Chiefland Field Festival. Durant won shot put with a distance of 38 feet, 1.5 inches, while also taking first in the discus with a throw of 120-8. A.J. Rivera and Matthew Rogers were second and…
