Sports & Outdoors
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Florida football legend and former East Gadsden coach to take reins of Gadsden County High football program
After a dismal season marked by loss after heartbreaking loss, Gadsden County High School is hinging its hopes for a football rebirth on a North Florida sports legend and familiar face to Jaguar football fans. Godby High School head football coach Corey Fuller announced on Instagram this past Tuesday night that he would be leaving…
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Crossroad Academy number one seed in district tournament
With their 71-30 win over Aucilla this past Thursday, the Crossroad Academy varsity basketball crew guaranteed themselves the number one seed in the upcoming District 1-2A Tournament with a 71-30 win over Aucilla last Thursday night. The Scorpions dominated the game from the start and wound up with three players scoring in double figures. Paul Matthews…
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“The Great Outdoors” by Jim Glass – January 3, 2019
For all of the big game hunters located in and around Jackson and Gadsden counties, the rut has begun! Let the good times roll. During the past 10 days, the “big boys” have emerged from hiding and are showing up on numerous trail cameras. A growing number are posing for pictures for local hunters lucky…
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Joe’s bowl-picking season a tough one
It continues to be a tough bowl picking season for me, as I have a miserable 9-10 picking record through the games picked at this week’s early column deadline, December 27. With the early holiday deadline, all I can really do is speculate on the college football championship game, as the semifinals will be played…
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High school ballers have exciting week
Gadsden County High School boys The Jaguars lost two games prior to their win over Crossroad. Tuesday Lincoln bopped Gadsden 59-46. In that game Brown had 18 and Taiwan Howard put in 12. Thursday, Godby pounded the Jaguars 71-48 with Brown’s 9 points topping the Gadsden scoring. After Friday’s win over Crossroad the Jaguars won…
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Pirate volleyballers to go for sixth straight state title
The Sneads girls’ volleyball team brushed aside Blountstown in Altha this past Saturday, taking a 3-0 match, and will advance to Ft. Myers to attempt to gain their sixth straight Florida High School Athletic Association 1A State Championship title tomorrow (Friday). Sneads powered past the Lady Tigers in their state semifinal meeting 25-12, 25-17, and 25-17…
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SPORTS ROUNDUP: Gadsden County, Sneads, Robert F. Munroe
Pirates end regular season in a romp, host Franklin County in playoffs Saturday Sneads scored early and often last week in romping past Liberty County 67-6 to close their regular season football play with a 67-6 mercy rule victory. The visiting Pirates rushed for close to 300 yards in the game with Courtavious Garrett and…
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Giant gator landed in Lake Seminole
Randy Hand of Bainbridge, Georgia, his wife Michelle Hand, brother JR Hand and father Willie Hand killed this 13-feet, 4-inches long, 680-pound alligator on Lake Seminole September 16 during Georgia’s authorized alligator hunting season. When water began flooding the boat the four were hunting out of, they rushed to shore, where Hand discovered the alligator…
Sports Rundown: Pirates crush conference rival Wewahitchka Gators; Jaguars shut out by Seminoles and Bobcats fall hard against Aucilla Christian
Pirates vs. Gators The Pirates of Sneads High School crushed the Wewahitchka Gators 45-6 in a home conference game this past Friday night. The Pirates won by the same score the last time these two teams played. With the victory, Sneads improved its record to 5-1, while the Gators dropped to 3-4 on the season….