Oak Ridge at Jones to resume
Oak Ridge will travel to Jones on Tuesday to complete a football game that began two weeks ago.
Play will resume at 5:30 p.m. with Jones leading 13-0 through one quarter of play. Oak Ridge (0-2) will have the ball at its own 20 yard line to start the second quarter and will receive the kickoff after halftime.
The rivalry game was stopped due to inclement weather on Sept. 1 and initially rescheduled for Monday of this week before Hurricane Irma’s arrival wreaked more havoc on fall sports athletic schedules.
Even though Orange County has not permitted public schools to hold practices until classes resume Monday, coaches at both schools felt Tuesday was the only date they’d be able to finish the game.
“We already practiced a whole week for each other a couple weeks ago, we just didn’t get to finish the game,” said coach of Jones (1-1), which is ranked No. 5 in the Sentinel Super 16. “We’ll revisit some stuff on Monday and play it on Tuesday, because who knows how the schedule will be affected the rest of the season.” into the first quarter. The teams resumed play the next morning, with Gateway winning 23-14.
Liberty played Poinciana on Thursday of last week ahead of the hurricane and won 43-7.
Also Saturday at 7:30, Master’s Academy (3-0) plays at Faith Christian (2-0) in a Sunshine State Athletic Conference matchup that is the only other football game scheduled to be played in the coverage area this week. don’t have a goal post.”
Demer said Boone is looking at scheduling to determine if it can play freshman and JV home games on the field with all extra point kick attempts aimed at the North end zone.
“For the varsity, we’ll try to get a new goal post here in time for our next home game, tentatively scheduled for October 6 (vs. Freedom). We have electrical power here at Boone, all of our lights are working. as are the scoreboard, the loudspeakers and everything else is good.”
Boone is scheduled to play at Apopka on Friday of next week, but the Blue Darters have their own stadium issues with a fallen light tower.
Three of Orlando’s top girls volleyball teams, Bishop Moore, The First Academy and Lake Highland Prep, will return to the court for tournament play this weekend to revive a season interrupted by Hurricane Irma.
All three go to Tampa for the Berkeley Prep Premier invitational, which tips off this afternoon and continues through Saturday’s bracket finals, set for 3:30 p.m.
Class 6A Bishop Moore won the its second consecutive FHSAA championship last fall. TFA captured the 4A title. And Lake Highland was the 5A state runner-up.
“We are headed to the tournament despite the craziness,” said Lake Highland coach
The Highlanders, 9-0 this season, held an optional practice on Wednesday and Fleming said all of her players were able to attend. They held practice again Thursday and are set to head to Tampa today.
TFA (3-2) also practiced on Wednesday and Thursday.
Bishop Moore, which is 5-0, scheduled an off-campus practice at the Orlando Sports Center for Thursday after a full week with no games or practices.
“We just want to make sure that we touch the ball a little bit before we go to one of our strongest tournaments of the year,” said Bishop Moore coach
The 14-team field includes Windermere Prep, along with Sacred Heart of New Orleans and Marietta, Ga., Walton.