{"id":159910,"date":"2026-02-18T15:23:06","date_gmt":"2026-02-18T15:23:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/159910\/"},"modified":"2026-02-18T15:23:06","modified_gmt":"2026-02-18T15:23:06","slug":"north-edges-mariner-for-girls-regional-soccer-title-triton-boys-soccer-team-falls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/159910\/","title":{"rendered":"North edges Mariner for girls regional soccer title; Triton boys soccer team falls"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tuesday<\/p>\n<p>GIRLS SOCCER<\/p>\n<p>Region 3A-3<\/p>\n<p>Championship<\/p>\n<p>North Fort Myers 2, Mariner 1:\u00a0The Red Knights (17-3-2) are heading to the FHSAA Class 5A Final Four after edging their archrivals on Tuesday. Freshman Kaitlyn Houghlin had a goal\u00a0and an assist and sophomore Jaelyn Hoefer also scored for North Fort Myers. Hope Cordero got the win in goal. Mariner finished 17-3-2, with two of those three losses coming against North. The Red Knights face Tallahassee Chiles on Feb. 27 in the state semifinals.<\/p>\n<p>BOYS SOCCER<\/p>\n<p>Region 3A-3<\/p>\n<p>Championship<\/p>\n<p>Tampa Jesuit 5, Mariner 0:\u00a0Top-seeded Jesuit (16-2-3) brought Mariner\u2019s season to an end at 25-3-2. In the FHSAA Final Four, Jesuit will face Pembroke Pine Charter on Feb. 27.<\/p>\n<p>SOFTBALL<\/p>\n<p>North Fort Myers 8, Cape Coral 3:\u00a0North opened the season with a rivalry win against Cape. For the Red Knights, Jordyn Prado tripled, driving\u00a0in two runs. Audrie Florenzano was 3-for-3 with two RBI and two runs scored. Gabrielle Salas and Alison Smith had an RBI each for North. Cape Coral got RBI from Olivia Tyler, Jocelyn Slater and Abigail Brannan.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Ida Baker 12, Estero 3:\u00a0Kaiden\u00a0Nealiegh\u00a0doubled,\u00a0drove in three runs and scored twice in Ida Baker\u2019s first game of the season. Taylor Lavish and Allison Jacobs had two RBI each, Alyssa Auger had a triple and an RBI, and Lilly Hawley added an RBI.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Mariner 5, Charlotte 1:\u00a0Morgan Tucker homered and had four RBI to pace the Tritons (1-0).\u00a0 Alaina Shugars drove in the other Mariner run. Calleigh Buzard and Rylie Moore scored two runs each.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Babcock 11, Oasis 2:\u00a0Sophia Hall drove\u00a0in both of the Sharks\u2019 runs.<\/p>\n<p>Bishop Verot 16, Fort Myers 9:\u00a0Abby Goff homered, had two hits and scored twice to lead the Vikings. Emma Hall had three hits and two RBI, and Willa Pagnutti, Ashley Blexrud,\u00a0 Payton Breadmore and Josie Betterman each knocked in two runs.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>BASEBALL<\/p>\n<p>Early Bird Tournament<\/p>\n<p>At Terry Park, Fort Myers<\/p>\n<p>Ida Baker 9, Gateway Charter 0:\u00a0Yadel Pena dove in three runs on two hits, including a double, for the Bulldogs (2-2). Tito Ortiz doubled and had two RBI. Ely Mora, Chance Barnhill and Brody Root had an\u00a0RBI each.<\/p>\n<p>Fort Myers 10, Cape Coral 1:\u00a0Colin Thess had two hits including a double, and scored a run for Cape Coral (2-2).\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Elsewhere<\/p>\n<p>Oasis 10, Golden Gate 4:\u00a0A six-run third inning set the stage for Oasis (3-1). Tim Stauffer tripled and drove in two runs for the\u00a0Sharks and Miguel Torrealba had two hits. Tanner Goff struck out eight batters over six innings for the win.<\/p>\n<p>Bishop Verot 1, Sarasota Riverview 0:\u00a0The Vikings (4-0) won despite not getting a hit, scoring the game\u2019s only run in the top of the seventh inning.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>FLAG FOOTBALL<\/p>\n<p>Island Coast 7, North Fort Myers 0:\u00a0Nevaeh Howard rushed for 125 yards and threw a touchdown pass as the Gators won their first game of the season.<\/p>\n<p>GIRLS TENNIS<\/p>\n<p>Ida Baker 5, Gateway 2<\/p>\n<p>Singles:\u00a0Sofia Uzcategui (IB) d. Audrey Allen 6-0, 6-1. Maria Radford (IB) d. Madelyn Hollingshead 6-1, 6-0. Julika Feix (IB) d. Alexandra Gilliam 6-0, 6-0. Kendra Brooks (G_ d. Corrie Morris 6-1, 6-1. Hailey Peace (IB) d. Walleiyha\u00a0Severa 6-0, 6-2.\u00a0Doubles:\u00a0Radford\/Feix (IB) d. Allen\/Gilliam 8-4. Hollingshead\/Brooks (G) d. Morris\/Eva Zonnebelt 8-2.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tuesday GIRLS SOCCER Region 3A-3 Championship North Fort Myers 2, Mariner 1:\u00a0The Red Knights (17-3-2) are heading to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":117924,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[209,211,210],"class_list":["post-159910","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cape-coral","tag-cape-coral","tag-cape-coral-headlines","tag-cape-coral-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159910","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=159910"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159910\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/117924"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=159910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=159910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=159910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}