Booker has Sebring's number once again. ...more

February 13, 2008

SEBRING – Senior second baseman Sami Lower and pitcher Melissa Luke smiled and exchanged hi-fives with the sort of exuberance that carried across the field. "I love coming out to the field every day," Lower said. "There is a bond on this team that I believe gives us an edge over a lot of teams. We're always there to lift the other teammate up and give them that boost when they need it." ...more

February 6, 2008

SARASOTA — No championship is just handed to a team, and the Sebring girls basketball team seemingly tried to rest on its laurels of past tournament wins and almost saw their chance at a third-straight district championship slip away. Hannah Shoop's basket on a beautiful no-look pass by senior Whitney Lee with 1:07 to play ended a Blue-Streak scoring drought — which saw a 15-point lead dwindle to just four points — and lifted the Blue Streaks past the No. 4 seed Palmetto Tigers 52-44 in the semifinals of the Class 4A-District 10 tournament on Friday. ...more

February 3, 2008

SEBRING — The Sebring girls basketball had to win Friday night to clinch the top seed in the upcoming Class 4A-District 10 tournament. Think they knew? The Blue Streaks held Braden River without a field goal for the first 10 minutes and got five 3-pointers from senior captain Whitney Lee en route to a 53-26 victory over the Pirates, a blowout win that clinched the No. 1 seed and a first-round bye in the district tourney, which tips off Jan. 28 at Booker High School in Sarasota. ...more

January 20, 2008

Whitney Lee scored 19 points and and Hannah Shoop added eight points and seven rebounds Friday night to lead Sebring to a 53-26 victory over Braden River. ...more

January 19, 2008

ARCADIA — Sebring's Whitney Lee hit a buzzer-beating 3-pointer as time expired, but the Blue Streak girls basketball team still fell by the smallest of margins on Monday night, falling to DeSoto 31-30 in Class 4A-District 10 action. The loss drops Sebring (8-3 in district) into a tie for first with one district game to play. ...more

January 16, 2008

SEBRING — Sebring coach Mike Lee said it best following the Blue Streak girls basketball team's not-so-pretty victory over Hardee. "It's a district win, so I guess I'm happy," Lee said. He had good reason to be on the fence. ...more

January 13, 2008

The Sebring High girls basketball team outscored Gulf 15-3 in the fourth quarter to win the Blue Division title 45-37 at the Lady Rattlers Friends Holiday tournament Saturday night. ...more

December 31, 2007

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

Arthur Brokop, a young substitute teacher, shut the windowless door of the first-grade classroom he'd been called in to oversee. ...more

December 30, 2007