The Plant girls basketball team received a huge injection of inspirational motivation before last week's district tournament. ...more

February 7, 2008

Sometimes second is still best. That was the case when the Hernando Christian Academy's girls' basketball team suffered its seventh loss of the season, giving it second place in the Class 1A, District 6 Tournament Saturday night, at the hands of host St. John Lutheran, 61-23. ...more

February 7, 2008

5A-7 GIRLS BASKETBALL LATE ARRIVING WILDCATS ELIMINATE CHS ...more

February 5, 2008

LAND O'LAKES - The No. 4 seeded Central High girls' basketball team played tough against top seeded Wesley Chapel but couldn't keep up in the second half as the Lady 'Cats dominated in all areas of the game going on to win Friday night's Class 5A, District 7 semifinal, 64-35. ...more

February 5, 2008

Brittani Williams made two free throws with 1.6 seconds left in overtime to give the Booker girls basketball team a 39-37 victory over Sebring in the Class 4A-District 10 tournament final on Saturday night. ...more

February 3, 2008

Brooksville Nature Coast showed the young Gulf girls basketball team what experience can do for a program. ...more

February 3, 2008

River Ridge Middle School's seventh-grade girls basketball team is playing against rival Hudson. The winner will be the conference champion. Late in the fourth quarter, Hudson leads by one point. The clock is winding down, and there are just seconds to play. ...more

February 3, 2008

SARASOTA — No championship is just handed to a team, and the Sebring girls basketball team seemingly tried to rest on its laurels of past tournament wins and almost saw their chance at a third-straight district championship slip away. Hannah Shoop's basket on a beautiful no-look pass by senior Whitney Lee with 1:07 to play ended a Blue-Streak scoring drought — which saw a 15-point lead dwindle to just four points — and lifted the Blue Streaks past the No. 4 seed Palmetto Tigers 52-44 in the semifinals of the Class 4A-District 10 tournament on Friday. ...more

February 3, 2008

SARASOTA — Daija Barrett's tears told how close the Avon Park girls basketball team came to a rematch with the Sebring and an extension of its season, as the junior reluctantly relived the final seconds of Friday's Class 4A–District 10 semifinal game against Booker. "My father has told me time and time again that free throws win games," Barrett said. "It was a lot of pressure, but as a player you want the ball in your hand to win the game. It just didn't fall for me tonight." ...more

February 3, 2008

The top-seeded Sebring girls basketball team had little trouble against Palmetto on Friday night, but an all-Heartland final wasn't meant to be, as host Booker rallied to defeat Avon Park in overtime. ...more

February 2, 2008