Santa Fe coach Dock Pollard spoke to Sportscene host Steve Russell on Thursday about the Red Raiders’ matchup against Suwannee on Friday. Coach Pollard reflected on Santa Fe’s 1-0 start, first. “I absolutely like comin’ out 1-0,” he said on Santa Fe’s 22-7 win over Newberry, last week. “We had …
Read More »Oakleaf Hosts Columbia in a Non-Conference High School Football Match Up
The Oakleaf Knights will host the Columbia Tigers in a non-conference football match on Friday at 7 p.m. Both teams are 1-0 and are looking to keep their engines going ahead of a long high school football season. Columbia Tigers The Tigers initiated their season by defending their home turf …
Read More »Buchholz Looks to Build Off Emotional Win
The Buchholz Bobcats (1-0) are riding high after opening their season with a clutch victory over the Eastside Rams (0-1). In the opening week of the season, Bobcats’ senior Damien Lewis came up with the clutch block on a Rams’ extra point attempt to seal the game for Buchholz. That …
Read More »Hawthorne Head Coach, Cornelius Ingram: A Football Life
For many kids, football is a game. It is an excuse to avoid studying for a quiz to run around outside with the neighbors in the front yard. Sometimes, that youthful joy turns into a way to get to college and then for some into a career. But for Cornelius …
Read More »Eastside Football Looks to Bounce Back versus Bishop Moore
The Eastside Rams take on the Bishop Moore Hornets on Thursday, August 29 at 7 p.m. Each team enters into this match-up with zero wins and one loss. The first win of the season is the coveted prize of this Thursday night battle. Eastside enters the game ranked 160th in …
Read More »Feature: Concussions in Gainesville-Area High School Football
In an instant, everything can change. In one second a high-school football player can be well on his way to a scholarship, and in the next second, it can slip through their hands like smoke in the air. But the players know the stakes; after all, anything worth achieving always …
Read More »Williston takes on Union County Friday
The Williston Red Devils (0-1) play host to Lake Butler’s Union County Fightin’ Tigers (1-0) in a non-conference showdown on Friday at 7:30 p.m. Both teams enter this week’s matchup having played one game thus far. Williston Red Devils Williston enters with a record of 0-1 following a 30 point …
Read More »Columbia rolls in win over Trinity Christian Academy
Last year, Trinity Christian Academy gave Columbia its only loss in the regular season. A blemish that didn’t sit well the rest of 2018 for the Tigers. On Friday night, Columbia used that loss as fuel and defeated the Conquerors 38-7 at Tiger Stadium. Defense One of the main factors …
Read More »Buchholz Defeats Eastside in a Thriller
The Eastside Rams’ offense ran to their sideline celebrating their successful two-point conversion. The Rams thought they just ended their six-game losing streak to the Buchholz Bobcats but then they saw that there were flags on the play. The Rams were called for an illegal shift resulting in a five-yard …
Read More »Hawthorne Wins a Defensive Battle 14-7 Against P.K. Yonge to Start the Season 1-0
By: Chase Anschultz and Rylee McIver Photos By: Rylee McIver For the majority of the first half, few possessions by either team resulted in more than twenty yards and oftentimes ended with a turnover on downs or a punt. “Defense kept us in the game, they were definitely the better …
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