Pace, Milton and Jay all have athletes headed to the state weightlifting meet this Saturday at the RP Funding Center in Lakeland.
Pace’s Shawn Morgan, Kendall Ballou and Jayson Alford are all coming off regional championships this past weekend. The Patriots have a total of 12 lifters headed to state. Milton is sending nine in its first year as a 3A school. Jay has two lifters headed to the 1A state meet.
The Pace Patriots played host to the Crestview Bulldogs Thursday in their first of two matchups this season.
The Patriots entered this game sporting a 15-1 record to go along with a 14-game winning streak. Coach Jason McBride’s team was determined to keep their streak intact, and it did with 4-3 walk-off win.
Amaya Pablo had already thrown a touchdown pass for Pace’s first points of the night against Tate, hitting Katie Crounse in the corner of the end zone.
So on the next drive, she opted to toss the ball over to Ashten Dickerson, who promptly fired a scoring strike to Crounse.
The latest regional rankings are out and one local team finds itself at the top in baseball.
Pace is ranked No. 1 in Region 1-6A and is also the No. 1 team in the state. The Patriots are the reigning 6A runner-up.
Jayden Heavener just kept pitching. She was confident that at some point against Navarre, the offensive firepower would shine through for the Patriots and put the game out of reach.
That happened in the final two innings of a six-inning affair called early because of the mercy rule, the Patriots scoring nine runs in that stretch to secure a 12-1 victory on the road Monday night.
Jay’s softball team closed out 2022 with all the momentum in the world. The Royals won 18 consecutive games, punctuating the streak with the program’s first state championship.
Seven games into 2023, the Royals didn’t look like their usual selves, sitting at 2-5.
Milton notched a much-needed win on senior night Friday, rolling past Fort Walton Beach 11-4.
A seven-run second inning provided the offense the Panthers needed while Gracie Bonds got the job done in the circle as Milton bounced back after two consecutive losses.
Jackson McDonald wasn’t sure if he’d get to compete in the pole vault this season.
A football injury that he suffered in Milton’s second game of the year left his senior season in track and field hanging in the balance.
Ahead only 4-3 heading into the bottom of the fourth Tuesday night against Navarre, Pace needed to find a way to take control of the game.
The reigning 6A state runner-up soon did that, scoring six runs in the inning to pull away for a 12-5 win.
Lauryn Hatler wanted one final goal. She had already scored seven in what would be a 17-6 win over Washington on a Thursday night in late March, but it was the eighth one that mattered most.
It wasn’t that the Milton lacrosse standout was hoping to merely pad her stats, but rather it was about reaching the milestone of 100 career goals.
