Stepping it up one last time
Lizzy Mason, Staff Reporter
November 13, 2018
Filed under Sports, Top Stories
The practices, the pressure, the wins and the losses, at some point every player steps on the playing field for the last time. Seeing the lights, hearing the crowd cheering, walking out with teammates, and feeling the rush of adrenaline when the timer starts may bring a range of feelings. It mig...
A Dive In The Right Direction
Elarya Tadres, Staff Reporter
September 28, 2018
Filed under Sports, Top Stories
When people hear the word swim team, all they think about is competing and practice, but not the PHU swimmers. “I am on the swim team for fun. I’ve been swimming competitively since I was five, and being on the team is great because you meet many new friends,” sophmore Isabel Easley said. Practice...
Friday Night “Lights”
Alexis Cesarini, Staff Reporter
September 27, 2018
Filed under Sports, Top Stories
The lightning capital of the United States is certainly prone to dealing with such a common component of thunderstorms, however the fact that it disabled the PHU football field has struck the students as quite inconvenient. Following one of the recent storms of thunder and lightning in the area, the...
With patience comes success
Jacyn Mccrudden and Grace Mercer
September 24, 2018
Filed under Sports, Top Stories
As the bright lights, light up the football field, the current football game of the week starts on Aug. 31 at 7:30 p.m. The football players are having higher hopes for the outcome of this Friday's game and the rest of the year. The pre-season game that took place on Aug. 17 was a match betwe...
Sports Wrap Up
Eli Thompson, Staff Reporter
May 23, 2018
Filed under Sports
Sports are a way to connect with people that share the same interest in a sport that you do. Players take the field with their teammates, who have the same goal as every other person on the field. To win the game. Football wasn’t the best sport for PHU this season, as the Varsity team only won 2 gam...
Canes Break Into Postseason Form
Jacyn McCrudden, Staff Reporter
May 11, 2018
Filed under Sports
Newsome was the first district playoff game and PHU has been struggling to hit the ball up until districts. Then they played Newsome, in which they put 12 runs up on the board. PHU is looking forward to the rest of the district playoff and hoping to make it very far. After the Newsome game the team...
Baseball Update
Jayla Motko, Staff Reporter
March 23, 2018
Filed under Sports, Top Stories
With a rough start, Palm Harbor baseball season has started. Currently they are 4-4 but still have 16 games to go. The team has been training hard for many months, conditioning and working on the mechanics. The baseball team coach, Tom Hilbert, says “32 guys come out everyday and although we are...
Player of the Week: Mitch Farris
Andy Blair, Sports Editor
March 20, 2018
Filed under Player of the Week, Sports, Top Stories
With high school baseball in full swing, Palm Harbor University has had some standout players. One of those players is junior pitcher Mitch Farris. Mitch Farris has been on the PHU baseball team for all three years he’s been in high school. He began playing baseball when he was four years old b...
Lady Canes Takeover
Chaetan Prabhu, Staff Reporter/ Photographer
March 19, 2018
Filed under Sports
Dirt flying, balls soaring and players sliding; our Lady Canes Softball team has run away with the number one rank in the state. The team is coming off a red hot season after getting second place in states with a roster which lost only three seniors. The rest of the team is still here and they are look...
Wrestling Update
Lizzy Mason, Staff Reporter
February 7, 2018
Filed under Sports, Top Stories
The PHUHS wrestling team went up against several teams this past weekend at Palm Harbor University. The team went up against 10 other wrestling teams and ended up winning the tournament. Some of the teams included, Countryside, Lakewood Ranch, Sarasota, North Port, and River Ridge High school. ...
Loading ...Lizzy Mason, Staff Reporter
November 13, 2018
The practices, the pressure, the wins and the losses, at some point every player steps on the playing field for the last time. Seeing the lights, hearing the crowd cheering,...
Elarya Tadres, Staff Reporter
September 28, 2018
When people hear the word swim team, all they think about is competing and practice, but not the PHU swimmers. “I am on the swim team for fun. I’ve been swimming competitively...
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