Unbeaten Montverde holds off Hagerty
Montverde Academy remained unbeaten Friday after holding off Hagerty for the Florida League High School Invitational Classic tournament title at Sanford Memorial Stadium.
worked 62⁄3 innings and finished with 12 strikeouts with six hits allowed in a 4-2 win. and singled in the bottom of the second and scored on sacrifice hits to the right side to give the Eagles an early advantage.
Millan also homered over the wall in left field in the bottom of the sixth to make it a 3-0 game.
Hagerty put runners on second and third in the top of the sixth when singled and
landed a shot along the right field line on the 10th pitch of the at-bat. But the next three batters struck out swinging.
drove in a run on a double with two down in the final inning. He scored on Grabsky’s base hit to the right side.
Hagerty kept the game close by coming up with big plays in the field.
The Huskies turned a double play in the bottom of the fourth when Greene caught a fly ball in centerfield, then threw to Grabsky at third for a tag on
struck out ona full-count pitch with a runner on third in the bottom of the fifth, then got a groundout to end the inning.
Former Edgewater basketball standout
plans to jump from the preps to the pros.
Simons, now a fith-year senior at IMG Academy of Bradenton, confirmed that he has decided to skip college basketball and enter the 2018 NBA draft in a statement released by the Rosenhaus Sports agency. ESPN’s first reported Simons’ decision through
agents and
Simons, a 6-foot-4 guard who was the Class 7A state player of the year as an Edgewater senior in 2016-17, is No. 19 in ESPN’s mock draft and is higher in some other projections. He is widely regarded as a likely first round pick.
Simons told the Sentinel and others that he was considering making the jump after learning in the fall that he would be eligible to skip college because he turns 19 before the June draft.
Simons played to mostly rave reviews as a post-grad.
While Simons delayed his departure from the high school ranks, former Deltona standout
is heading in the other direction. Hinson, a 6-7 junior at Sunrise Christian of Kansas, plans to complete high school a year early this spring and sign to play college basketball in 2018-19.
Bishop Moore boys lacrosse handed Tampa Jesuit its first loss of the season with a 14-5 win Friday night.
had five goals, including the first of four unanswered to start the game for the Hornets (10-1).
LaxPower ranks Bishop Moore No. 4 in the state of Florida behind Oxbridge Academy (8-2), IMG Academy (7-1) and Ponte Vedra (10-2), and 29th in the country. Power forward
of 9A state champ Oak Ridge is one of eight high school seniors invited to compete in Tuesday’s American Family Insurance High School Slam Dunk competition in San Antonio. Highlights will be televised April 1 at 3:30 p.m on CBS. Jacksonville Bolles senior
ran a time of 2 minutes, 4.87 seconds for 800 meters to break an FSU Relays record on Friday.