An era came to an end last spring when coach Mike Cobb retired after 14 years at the helm of the Avon Park softball team. ...more

February 6, 2009

Travel and the costs that go with away games were the main concerns for athletic directors and football coaches in the Heartland with the recent release of the Florida High School Athletic Association's tentative district football alignments for 2009 and 2010. ...more

January 18, 2009

"Play smarter," was all Avon Park head coach Andy Bonjokian could say after evaluating his Red Devil football team over the last two games. ...more

November 14, 2008

On the night Avon Park High School honored its state title football squads of 1987 and 1988, the current Red Devil football team showed it has a ways to go on the path back to championship contention. ...more

October 5, 2008

New Avon Park head football coach Andy Bonjokian walked into the Red Devil football locker room on the morning of July 15 and found his young coaching career had hit its first speed-bump weeks before kickoff. ...more

July 29, 2008

AVON PARK — After 22 games and two seasons without a playoff appearance, Earnest Perkins has been fired as Avon Park High School varsity football coach. AP Principal Stu Guthrie said the decision "was his alone," and although he characterized the move as "not easy," Guthrie said a change at the top was "one that was necessary." "Sometimes in coaching, much like life, things just don't work out the way we would have liked for them to," Guthrie said in a written statement. "I think this is the case in this situation. I have the utmost respect for coach Perkins, but a change was necessary." ...more

November 28, 2007

PALMETTO –– The laughs and jeers on the way to the football field by some spectators didn't go unnoticed by the Avon Park Red Devil football players, who have found new strength in this watershed season. Thier season may have ended with a 41-0 rout at the hands of the playoff-bound Palmetto Tigers at Harllee Stadium on Friday, but the mood was upbeat and an sense of excitement for what lies ahead for the underclassman that endure all the hardships this year was felt. ...more

November 11, 2007

AVON PARK — There's a saying in prize fighting: Everyone has a plan until they've been hit. Well, the Avon Park Red Devils have been hit from all sides — even from themselves — and now find themselves on the gridiron canvas. The question is whether they can pick themselves up and turn around what looks to be a lost season. Or is it? People seem to forget that the Red Devils were 6-1 at this time last season and went on to lose their final three games and the tiebreaker against arch-rival Sebring. ...more

October 12, 2007

Wicked awe washed over them, and the gates to football paradise parted. ...more

September 28, 2007

Casey McKibben steps up to a game-winning field goal with the same intensity he employs while dashing to the lead in a hotly-contested ATV race. ...more

September 26, 2007