record fifth consecutive FHSAA state championship<\/a>.<\/p>\n\u201cI\u2019ve been trying to get them on the schedule for a long time,\u201d West Orange coach Michael Scutero said. \u201cWe definitely had a chance to win it.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Warriors make a second long road trip Friday for another Class 7A matchup against Venice. The Indians were 3-0 going into a Wednesday game and ranked No. 2 behind Douglas among FHSAA state championship contenders by PBR.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis is a test week for our team,\u201d Scutero said.<\/p>\n
Baseball<\/p>\n
Area teams in the PBR Florida Top 25 ranking list are No. 9 The First Academy (2-0), No. 12 Winter Park (3-0 through Tuesday), No. 19 Bishop Moore (3-0 through Tuesday) and No. 22 Winter Springs (3-1).<\/p>\n
TFA plays at Winter Park on Thursday night.<\/p>\n
Four pitchers combined for a 7-1 one-hitter win by TFA against The Master\u2019s Academy. Ryon Smith had 5 of those K\u2019s in two innings. Kinon Bastain and Aiden Williams homered for the Royals.<\/p>\n
Harper Costello struck out 5 in two scoreless innings of relief to get the win for Winter Springs in a 5-1 conquest of Lake Brantley.<\/p>\n
St. Cloud (4-0) pitchers Rafaell Martinez (7 strikeouts, 4 innings) and Kam Reinke (8 Ks, 3 scoreless innings) combined to beat Osceola 3-1.<\/p>\n
Max Sakala had 9 strikeouts in 4\u2154 innings pitched for Orangewood Christian (3-0) in a 4-1 win vs. Lyman.<\/p>\n
Geneva School (4-0) senior Trenton Johnson went 7-for-8 in the Knights first three games. He\u2019s now at .667 (8-for-12) with five doubles and 10 RBI.<\/p>\n
Umatilla opened 4-0 with senior Dominick Mathe hitting .462 (6-for-13) with 7 RBI.<\/p>\n
South Lake\u2019s Zander Siokis fanned 8 in four no-hit innings pitched in an 8-0 win vs. Belleview.<\/p>\n
Alton Hughes went 3 for 4 with a home run, double, 5 RBI and 3 runs scored for DeLand (3-2) in a 13-11 win over Seabreeze.<\/p>\n
Horizon and Lake Highland Prep are off to 4-0 starts.<\/p>\n
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Bishop Moore’s Aaliyah Figueroa, brings the ball down court against Gateway in a regular season win. Both teams are top seeds in their region brackets. (Rich Pope\/Orlando Sentinel)
\nGirls basketball<\/p>\n
The No. 1 and 2 seeds are all still alive in the 10 region tourneys that have Orlando area teams.<\/p>\n
Here are the pairings for Friday\u2019s semifinals. The FHSAA lists games at 7 p.m.unless noted otherwise:<\/p>\n
7A Region 1\u00a0<\/p>\n
No. 4 Timber Creek (16-9) at No. 1 Ocoee (22-5)<\/p>\n
No. 3 Creekside (16-9) at No. 2 Colonial (21-5)<\/p>\n
7A Region 2<\/p>\n
No. 4 Jupiter (19-6) at No. 1 Centennial (21-6), 6 p.m.<\/p>\n
No. 3 Oak Ridge (20-6) at No. 2 Treasure Coast (24-4)<\/p>\n
6A Region 1<\/p>\n
No. 4 Lake Howell (23-5) at No. 1 Tocoi Creek (22-6)<\/p>\n
No. 6 Bartram Trail (14-9) at No. 2 Niceville (22-7), 6 p.m.<\/p>\n
6A Region 2<\/p>\n
No. 4 Edgewater (18-7) at No. 1 Bloomingdale (24-2)<\/p>\n
No. 6 Lakeland (18-7) at No. 2 Bayside (20-8)<\/p>\n
5A Region 2<\/p>\n
No. 5 Leesburg (12-9) at No. 1 Gateway (24-3)<\/p>\n
No. 3 Springstead (23-5) at No. 2 New Smyrna Beach (18-8)<\/p>\n
4A Region 2<\/p>\n
No. 4 North Marion (13-10) at No. 1 Bishop Moore (22-4)<\/p>\n
No. 3 Titusville (19-6) at No. 2 Eustis (20-5)<\/p>\n
3A Region 2<\/p>\n
No. 4 Cardinal Mooney (16-13) at No. 1 Lake Highland Prep (22-6)<\/p>\n
No. 3 Windermere Prep (15-10) at No. 2 Trinity Catholic (15-10)<\/p>\n
2A Region 1<\/p>\n
No. 4 Bishop Snyder (16-11) at No. 1 Providence (20-5)<\/p>\n
No. 3 TFA (11-17) at No. 2 San Jose Prep (18-9)<\/p>\n
2A Region 2\u00a0<\/p>\n
No. 4 West Shore (16-6) at No. 1 Holy Trinity (17-12).<\/p>\n
No. 3 Foundation (20-6) at No. 2 John Carroll (23-3)<\/p>\n
1A Region 2<\/p>\n
No. 4 CFCA (17-11) at No. 1 OCP (18-7)<\/p>\n
No. 3 Altamonte Christian (20-7) at No. 2 North Tampa Christian (19-8), 4:30.<\/p>\n
Softball<\/p>\n
Defending 3A state champ Montverde Academy, ranked No. 7 nationally by MaxPreps, defeated No. 19 Calvary Christian of Clearwater 4-0 on Tuesday. Senior pitcher Nevaeh Williams, an Ole Miss signee struck out 13.<\/p>\n
Wrestling<\/p>\n
Freedom\u2019s state No. 1 girls team goes to Osceola High in Kissimmee for Friday\u2019s Region 2 girls meet.<\/p>\n
Harmony outscored Viera by a thin 230.5 points to 228 margin over Viera in the District 6 girls tournament.<\/p>\n
Boys district tournaments are this week, including Thursday\u2019s 2A District 8 meet at Lyman and Saturday\u2019s 3A-9 meet at Harmony.<\/p>\n
Track & field<\/p>\n
Montverde Academy\u2019s Will Moss, winner of the 2A boys cross country title in November, opened his junior track season with a career-best 4:19.66 time for 1,600 meters.<\/p>\n
East Ridge junior Axel Sallault, the Sentinel cross country runner of the year, opened with a 4:24.71 win.
Horizon\u2019s boys and Timber Creek girls won team titles by thin margins at Winter Haven\u2019s Harry Woodell Invitational season opener.<\/p>\n
Boys lacrosse<\/p>\n
Lake Brantley (3-0) and Lake Mary (1-1) went to double-overtime before the Patriots pulled out an 8-7 win on Monday. Tyler Murchek, Lukas Lawrence and Adam Booher each had 2 goals in the win and Jim Galante had 3 assists. Brantley goalkeeper Jacob Lester had 9 saves.<\/p>\n
TFA (3-0) has outscored opponents 37-6 going into a Thursday home game vs. Lake Brantley.<\/p>\n
Girls lacrosse<\/p>\n
St. Cloud (3-0) has scored 49 goals, 15 apiece by Mallory Thomas and Kyrstynn Osborne.<\/p>\n
TFA\u2019s girls are 4-0 and seventh grader Lilly Rumble has scored 14 goals.<\/p>\n
Golf<\/p>\n
The high school golf season ended in November, but Winter Park junior Lawson Hovey hit a highlight recently. He shot 8-under-par 27 in a casual round with teammates to tie the course record at the nine-hole Winter Park Golf Course. He carded seven birdies and an eagle.<\/p>\n
Oak Ridge, Winter Park, LHP cruise Saturday | FHSAA Basketball Playoffs<\/a><\/p>\nVarsity content editor Buddy Collings can be contacted by email at bcollings@orlandosentinel.com.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Windermere Prep senior Brandon Bass Jr.\u00a0 scored 26 points in the Lakers\u2019 61-52 win against Cardinal Mooney to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":160780,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[3745,139,141,140,76046,76642,110],"class_list":["post-160779","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-orlando","tag-high-school-sports","tag-orlando","tag-orlando-headlines","tag-orlando-news","tag-social-sports","tag-social-varsity-sports","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160779","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=160779"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160779\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/160780"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=160779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=160779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=160779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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Windermere Prep’s Brandon Bass Jr. (1) is in select company as a 2,500-point scorer. (Stephen M. Dowell\/Orlando Sentinel)