LAKE PLACID – The Lake Placid boys basketball team seemed to have a handle on things after one quarter of play Tuesday night against Frostproof. But for the next six minutes, the Green Dragons simply got handled. The Bulldogs scored the first 16 points of the second quarter and wouldn't relinquish their lead the rest of the way as Frostproof held off two furious LP rallies to claim a 61-58 Class 3A-District 10 victory at LPHS. ...more

December 20, 2007

LAKELAND — The Avon Park wrestling team had an impressive showing at the Polk County Duals this past weekend. ...more

December 19, 2007

LAKE PLACID — Antonio Santana scored two goals and captain Hugo Medina netted two goals — including the game-winner — as Lake Placid rallied to beat McKeel Academy 5-4 in boys soccer on Friday night at rain-soaked Roger Scarborough Memorial Field. The Class 3A Green Dragons trailed for most of the match, but refused to quit to improve to 1-4 in District 10 action. "This was a brave win," said Lake Placid coach Josh Virkler. "We were down two goals at two different points in the match, and it would have been easy for the guys to quit because the conditions were pretty severe." McKeel took a 2-0 lead just seven minutes into the match on the rain-slicked field. ...more

December 16, 2007

AVON PARK — Club Toluca and Cruz Azul are well-known soccer teams in Mexico, and they have been formidable teams on Memorial Field as well. The players, many of them immigrants and migrants, converge every Sunday through the winter and the spring to play soccer in the Aztec League, which just began its sixth season. And they don't take their pastime lightly, either. The games have a referee and two assistants flagging each sideline. One can hear an occasional angry scream from the coaches on the sidelines when a call goes against their team, when they're not trying to rally their players during the game. Teams take players living in Wauchula, Lake Placid, Frostproof and beyond the Heartland, with visiting teams occasionally coming from Arcadia and Bradenton. The uniforms even match up with the colors of their namesake teams in Mexico, at least for those based on them. ...more

December 4, 2007

The body of a man found shot to death Monday in an orange grove in Frostproof has been identified as 19-year-old Fernando Trejo of Banks Road, the Polk County Sheriff's Office reported. ...more

November 27, 2007

FROSTPROOF - Polk County deputies are investigating the death of a man whose body was found in a grove off of Banks Road. ...more

November 26, 2007

Clearwater Central Catholic boarded a bus Friday afternoon and rode a couple of hours to Frostproof, where the Marauders hoped to stop one of the best backs in the nation (Carlton Thomas), and flip the result they suffered a little more than a month ago on the same field (a 47-7 loss). ...more

November 24, 2007

Pick the winners of this week's area state playoff games. ...more

November 18, 2007