Jerryd Bayless scored 23 points and Chase Budinger had 22, and Arizona used a barrage of 3-pointers to beat No. 6 Washington State 76-64 on Thursday night. ...more

January 25, 2008

Sophomore forward Okaro White's tip-in of a Luke Loucks miss with 39 seconds left gave Clearwater a 45-44 win against Pinellas Park on Friday night. The loss was the Patriots' first of the season against a Pinellas County team. ...more

January 19, 2008

BOYS BASKETBALL Eastin paces hosts with 15 points and five rebounds in tourney opener. ...more

January 6, 2008

The Hernando Christian Academy Lions (7-2) took the Academy at the Lakes Wildcats (2-8) by the tail and slung them around and sent them right into the loser's bracket on Thursday night in HCA's inaugural Holiday Basketball Tournament. ...more

January 6, 2008

BELLEVIEW –– Sebring's Brenita Grant may not have put up huge numbers in the stat column, but her play against the Gulf High Buccaneers on Saturday proved the difference in the Blue Streaks' 45-37 victory in the championship game of the Lady Rattlers Holiday Tournament. Down 34-29 heading into the final eight minutes, Sebring head coach Mike Lee decided to make a change. "We switched to man-to-man defense and that was a key to our win," Lee said. "[Brenita] shut down [Gulf's] guards. She played amazing for us." With her stellar defense, Grant helped the Streaks outscore Gulf 16-3 in the fourth for the win and earned tournament MVP honors. ...more

December 31, 2007

BELLEVIEW — A holiday treat. That's what the Sebring girls basketball team enjoyed by blasting Pine Ridge (Deltona) 41-29 in Thursday's first round of the Lady Rattlers Holiday Tournament. The Class 3A Blue Streaks improved to 11-4 on the season as Whitney Wells scored a team-high 12 points, while Chelsea Davis chipped in with eight points and Benita Grant added six. "Our defense was solid," said Sebring first-year coach Mike Lee. "We rebounded well and showed a lot of patience on offense." ...more

December 29, 2007

LAND O' LAKES - Even though Joe Silvestri led the Nature Coast Technical Sharks Tuesday night with a game-high 20 points and eight rebounds, it was his play midway through the fourth quarter that helped the Sharks to their 4A-8 42-33 win over Sunlake. ...more

December 16, 2007

Looking for lucky No. 13 and his most important field goal of the night, Central's Darryn Frazier took the rebound with only seconds left on the clock, went coast-to-coast and pulled up from just inside the three-point arc taking an off-balanced jumper. ...more

December 16, 2007

AVON PARK — A dejected Red Devil head coach Luther Clemons showed his displeasure with his team after a 57-54 overtime loss to the Braden River Pirates in a Class 4A-District 10 showdown on Tuesday. "Coach cancelled practice tomorrow," AP center Cleveland Nobles said after leaving the locker room after the game. The reason for this type of reaction from their coach came when Virgil Cooper fouled Braden River's Marc McKeon with 0.6 seconds left in regulation and a 49-47 lead that put the forward on the charity stripe, where he drained both free throws to send the game into overtime. ...more

December 13, 2007

SEBRING –– It may have been a preseason game, but Thursday night's finals of the Tip-Off Classic between Sebring and Cocoa had the feel and intensity of a postseason matchup. The Blue Streaks, led by Whitney Lee's outside shooting and the inside play of Hannah Shoop, held off the Tigers 53-51, in a physical affair at Sebring High School. Lee, a 5-foot-10 senior forward, scored a team-high 14 points, mostly on perimeter jumpers, while Shoop added 13 points, 10 rebounds and dished out five assists. ...more

November 10, 2007