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…
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…
