Worrell is Hagerty’s hammer for softball

Hagerty softball slugger

Samantha Worrell belted her 12th home run of the season in Wednesday’s 16-0 romp past Winter Springs. That gives the USF signee 36 round-trippers for her prolific varsity career — 32 as a sophomore, junior and senior.

That is believed to be an area record and one of the top totals in state fastpitch history. Worrell is batting .514 with 33 RBI and 21 walks (mostly intentional) this season. She has 145 career RBI.

Worrell is also an ace pitcher for the Huskies, owning a 65-17 career record with 572 strikeouts.

Hagerty (22-3) will begin its bid for a Class 8A state title against DeLand in the District 2 tournament at 6 Monday night at the Coraci Sports Complex in Port Orange.

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Titans survive

Olympia (20-0-1) squeezed out a 3-2 baseball victory against rival West Orange on Wednesday night to stay unbeaten with four regular-season games to go.

The Titans have won six of their past seven games by two runs or less, allowing an average of one run per game in that stretch.

Olympia remains ranked No. 1 nationally by MaxPreps and USA Today, and it has risen to No. 2 in the Collegiate Baseball Rankings behind once-beaten San Clemente of California.

Baseball America has Olympia at No. 4 this week, one spot behind Lake Worth Park Vista (21-1), which joins the Titans atop the list of 8A state-title contenders.

The Titans will host West Orange (14-8) in the second game of that District 3 series at 4:30 p.m. today.

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B. Moore sweeps

Bishop Moore swept the Class 2A, District 8 boys and girls track and field titles at Lake Highland on Thursday

Marcus Williams won the 100 meters (10.86) for the Hornets in the boys competition. Jordan Thompson won

the 200 (21.70) and Chris

tian Marks took top honors in the triple jump (38-11). The Hornets, who won the 4x100 and 4x400 relays, finished with 168 points. Trinity Prep was second with 159 followed by Jones with 117.

Karina Tabuteau was a triple winners for the girls, taking the 100 (12.27), 200 (26.10) and long jump (18-0.25) for the Hornets.

Elizabeth Skipper won the 800 (2:25.96) and 1600 (5:41.09) for the Hornets.

Bishop Moore finished with 210 points, followed by Lake Highland (182.5) and Trinity Prep (110.5).

Winter Park rolls

The Winter Park girls and boys tennis teams each blanked Lake Brantley 5-0 in Class 4A region finals on Thursday.

Ninan Kumar defeated Aiden O’Brien 6- 1, 6-1at No. 1 singles in the boys competition. Anna Steltenkamp defeated Jessica Fernan

dez by injury default in the top-seeded girls match.

In other 4A boys action, Lake Mary’s boys defeated Spruce Creek 4 -1, and Olympia blanked Lithia Newsome 5 -0. In 2A Gainesville Eastside knocked off Bishop Moore 7-0. In other girls action, Olympia defeated Dr. Phillips 5-0 in 4A. In 2A Lake Highland downed Bishop Moore 5-0.

Showcase is on

Players arrived Thursday and will practice today for Saturday’s Senior Showcase boys basketball games. The marquee matchup is the eighth annual Florida vs. USA Hardwood Classic, pitting a state all-star team against top national prospects at 2 p.m. at Amway Center. Team Florida includes UCF signees Tacko

Fall of Tavares Liberty Christian, Chad Brown of Deltona and Chance

McSpadden of Winter Haven, along with area

standouts Kerry Black

shear of Evans and Matt Milon of Oviedo. Check SeniorShowcase.net for details.

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Quick hits

Timber Creek junior

Zachary Poti recently qualified for the 2016 U.S. Olympic Trials in the 200-meter backstroke (2 minutes, 3.37 seconds). He was the 4A state champion in the 100 back last fall. ... Windermere Prep senior

Franco Martins won the tough distance triple in Wednesday’s 1A, District 7 track and field meet. He finished first in the 800-,1,600and 3,200-meter runs. Junior Georges Chery won the leaper’s trifecta with victories in the boys high jump, long jump and triple jump. Host First Academy ran away with both team titles. ...

MaxPreps is the latest to name Montverde Academy’s hoops maestro, Ben

Simmons, as its basketball national player of the year. It notes that the Eagles went 62-1 with Simmons, who became eligible for the national high-school invitational as a sophomore after arriving from his native Australia. . . .

Commitments: Lake Highland Prep — Sarah Catherine Herndon, ten

nis, Hofstra. St. Cloud —

Trevor Foshey, tennis,

Mississippi State. Trinity Prep — Jake Bentley, football, Carnegie Mellon; Pax

ton Fleming, football, Mill

saps College