Week 4 Football Preview: Question marks galore for Orlando area teams<\/a><\/p>\nThursday\u2019s Super 16 games<\/p>\n
Boone at No. 3 Jones<\/p>\n
Coverage by Philip Rossman-Reich<\/p>\n
Both teams are 1-1 going into their first meeting since Jones won 51-14 in 2023. The Tigers scored a 12-6 win Saturday against an Evans team that beat Boone 47-13.<\/p>\n
Jones is ranked No. 4 in Class 4A.<\/p>\n
No. 4 Edgewater at No. 13 Lake Nona<\/p>\n
Coverage by Chris Martucci<\/p>\n
First football meeting between these Metro Conference teams. Both are 2-1 with losses by close margins. Edgewater lost 21-14 to The First Academy in Week 2. Lake Nona lost 13-10 in overtime against Winter Park last season.<\/p>\n
Edgewater is No. 8 and Lake Nona No. 22 in the 6A rankings. They are in different districts.<\/p>\n
Ocoee at No. 5 West Orange<\/p>\n
Coverage by Jean Racine<\/p>\n
The host Warriors (3-0) have outscored opponents 140-30 with junior QB AJ Chung completing 64.6% of his throws (42-of-65) with 12 TDs and zero interceptions.<\/p>\n
The Knights (2-1) have won two in a row after losing to Edgewater.<\/p>\n
West Orange leads the \u201cShield\u201d rivalry 16-7, including three close wins in a row since Ocoee won a playoff rematch in 2022 by a 29-28 score.<\/p>\n
West Orange is No. 11, Ocoee No. 18 in 6A.<\/p>\n
No. 10 Evans at No. 14 Winter Park<\/p>\n
Coverage by Chris Hays<\/p>\n
Evans (1-2) lost close games against Lake Nona, 31-27, and Jones, 12-6.<\/p>\n
Winter Park (2-1) lost 29-26 against Windermere in its opener.<\/p>\n
These teams didn\u2019t play in 2024 and 2025. Winter Park has won five in a row since the Trojans prevailed in 2012.<\/p>\n
Evans is No. 22 in the 5A rankings.<\/p>\n
The game is at Showalter Field.<\/p>\n
Other Thursday Super 16 games<\/p>\n
University (Orange City) at No. 6 Sanford Seminole<\/p>\n
Seminole is 3-0 with its defense dominating every game to date. The visiting Titans (1-1) have matched their win total from last year (1-9).<\/p>\n
Manatee at No. 15 Lake Brantley<\/p>\n
Lake Brantley was 2-0 before losing 35-28 in overtime against Oviedo last week.<\/p>\n
The Hurricanes (2-1) lost their opener, 33-26, against Tampa Plant.<\/p>\n
Manatee is No. 20 in 5A.<\/p>\n
Melbourne at No. 10 Oviedo<\/p>\n
The winner jumps into the driver\u2019s seat for 5A District 5.<\/p>\n
The Lions (1-2) lost two close games, then squeaked out its overtime win against Lake Brantley.<\/p>\n
Melbourne (2-1) was thumped by Merritt Island, 35-7, in Week 2.<\/p>\n
Friday Super 16 games
\nNo. 8 Lake Mary at No. 1 DeLand<\/p>\n
Coverage by Chris Hays<\/p>\n
Lake Mary (1-1), the 7A state champ last year, beat DeLand in playoff matchups the past two years \u2014 49-14 in 2024 and 40-31 in 2025. The Rams lost to Kissimmee Osceola 17-9 last week.<\/p>\n
DeLand is also 1-1 with a valiant loss to a St. Frances (Baltimore) team that is ranked as high as No. 2 nationally.<\/p>\n
DeLand is No. 2 and Lake Mary No. 7 in the Class 6A rankings.<\/p>\n
No. 2 The First Academy (3-0) at South Lake (0-2)<\/p>\n
TFA is No. 4 in 2A, a top-heavy classification. Third consecutive road trip for the Royals. They won close games at Edgewater and Port Charlotte.<\/p>\n
Lakeland at No. 9 Kissimmee Osceola<\/p>\n
This is a fabled rivalry, and is back to being a district game. Osceola is 0-3 vs. the Dreadnaughts since the Kowboys scored a 35-28 playoff win in its 2014 state runner-up season.<\/p>\n
Lakeland (1-1) is No. 3 and Kissimmee Osceola (2-1) No. 8 in 5A.<\/p>\n
No. 12 East Ridge at South Sumter, 7:30 p.m.<\/p>\n
The schools meet for the first time since 2014, when the Raiders routed East Ridge 45-0.<\/p>\n
Lake Minneola at No. 16 St. Cloud<\/p>\n
St. Cloud (2-1) overpowered the Hawks 55-6 last season. Last week, the Bulldogs pulled out an overtime win against South Sumter.<\/p>\n
Lake Minneola is 1-2.<\/p>\n
Orlando-area Week 4 high school football scoreboard<\/a><\/p>\nVarsity content editor Buddy Collings can be contacted by email at bcollings@orlandosentinel.com.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Week 4 of Orlando area high school football has 20 games being played Thursday night because Orange County…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":396234,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[1745,3745,139,141,140,76046,76642,110],"class_list":["post-396233","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-orlando","tag-high-school-football","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\/396233","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=396233"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396233\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/396234"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=396233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=396233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=396233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}