Five Blue Streaks scored in double figures on Tuesday night and the Sebring boys basketball team looks to be gelling at the right time after a 91-57 district victory over Hardee. ...more

January 22, 2009

Kirk Veley poured in a team-high 20 points and Lake Placid's half-court press forced 21 turnovers as the Green Dragons outlasted a pesky Vanguard School by a score of 68-61 on Monday night. ...more

January 14, 2009

They say the first win of the season is the hardest one to get. That may be true, but the Lake Placid boys basketball team can finally relax a little bit after knocking off Walker Memorial Academy by a score of 66-39 in the Jim Taveniere Holiday Tournament on Saturday in the Sebring High School gym. ...more

December 22, 2008

Treating every game like an elimination game is something Sebring boys basketball head coach Princeton Harris has been trying to instill in his Blue Streaks from day one, and Friday was no exception. ...more

December 21, 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

SEBRING — Taking care of the ball will most definitely be a resolution for the new year for the Sebring boys basketball team, which coughed up 24 turnovers in a 58-45 loss to the Suncoast Chargers in the late game of the Jim Taveniere Holiday Tournament on Thursday. A very physical Charger squad muscled Sebring for position and an effective half-court press forced the Blue Streak guards to pick up their dribble early and turnovers inevitably were the result, going down 17-4 early in the opening stanza. "They were a very rough team and the referee's set the tone by letting us play," Sebring shooting guard Chris Grubb said. "[Suncoast] is a really good team and they did a great job of closing down the middle and forcing us to take outside shots. "They're press defense and a lot of mental mistakes on our part caused us to get behind early, but I thought we did a good job getting back in the game." ...more

December 29, 2007

Palm Harbor University High (3-8) entered Friday's Brighthouse Shootout on a 1-5 skid, hoping their young lineup could pick up some out-of-district confidence over the holiday. If nothing else, the Hurricanes did just that as they handedly beat Hillsborough County's Alonso High 65-52. ...more

December 22, 2007

Whatever Tampa Bay Tech coach Heather Glezen told her team at halftime, she might want to consider bottling it and saving it for later use. ...more

November 28, 2007

LAKE PLACID — Fort Meade's size was too much for the much smaller Lake Placid girls basketball team to handle on Monday night, as the Green Dragons fell 53-25 to the Miners in a non-district meeting. Fort Meade's inside duo of forward Bette Morris and center Akaycla Robinson — both of whom check in at over six feet — pounded the Green Dragons and gobbled up most of the rebounds on both ends of the court, scoring on countless second-chance opportunities and leading their team to a 32-11 halftime lead. ...more

November 28, 2007