This time next year, Jayden Heavener and Shelby McKenzie will be playing major college softball.
Heavener is headed to LSU and McKenzie is bound for Florida State.
Milton’s baseball team gave itself a chance to beat Tate Wednesday night. Ultimately, the Panthers fell 3-2 in a tightly contested game against one of the best teams in the area.
Afterwards, head coach Keith Little couldn’t say enough about his team’s effort.
With two outs in the bottom of the seventh inning, Milton’s softball team still had an opportunity to steal a big win against District 1-6A opponent Tate Wednesday night.
There is only one court for now and no home games are on tap for Pace in its first season of beach volleyball.
What there is no shortage of, however, is excitement for the sport, something impossible to not take notice of during a practice after school.
Keith Little is in his second season at the helm of Milton’s baseball team. He’s optimistic things will be better off than they were last season when the Panthers managed only nine wins.
“I like this group. They work hard and we’re trying to do some things different on and off the field. We want them to be a close unit,” Little said.
Pace made a statement in its first big test of the season in boys weightlifting, taking first in Olympic and traditional at the Baker Invitational last Wednesday.
Milton had a strong showing as well, finishing as the runner-up in traditional and taking third in Olympic.
Reice Griffith was in his hotel room the night before Mercer played its second game of the season against Mississippi on the road.
Being here in this moment, on the cusp of playing college football at the Division I level in a nationally televised contest, it was literally a dream come true for the Pace alum.
Central’s Chloe Lowery walked into the RP Funding Center in Lakeland Saturday morning and was a little overwhelmed for a moment ahead of the 1A state weightlifting meet.
The competition floor in the arena is huge and there’s a certain level of pressure that comes with competing at state.
Dana Tolleson was among the four lifters who represented Milton at the 3A state weightlifting meet Saturday at the RP Funding Center in Lakeland.
She finished as a state runner-up in her weight class (199) in Olympic, recording a 360-pound total, only five pounds off the winning lift.
