A roundup of Sarasota and Manatee County high school football games played on Friday, Oct. 4, 2024.
Lakewood Ranch 24, Sarasota 21
LAKEWOOD RANCH – There were just enough mistakes and big plays to make Friday night’s Sarasota-Lakewood Ranch matchup one of the more entertaining games of the high school football season.
In a game with five lead changes, in the end, it was the host Mustangs who made one more play than the Sailors, and that was a 25-yard field goal by Louka Coue with 11 seconds left to lift Lakewood Ranch to a 24-21 victory over the Sailors at The Preserve at Lakewood Ranch High School.
It was just the Mustangs’ second victory in 11 games with the Sailors (3-3), who saw their two-game winning streak come to an end. Ranch, meanwhile, rebounded from a 27-22 Monday night loss to Lennard to improve to 4-2.
The Mustangs, who desperately wanted to give the game to the Sailors through three fumbles and an interception, saw a 14-13 lead disappear after former Booker High quarterback Jordan Johnson threw a 2-yard TD to Sailor wide receiver Chase Fritz. Johnson then threw the 2-point conversion pass to tight end Scottie Wells. Earlier, Johnson had scored on a 1-yard run, giving Sarasota a 13-7 lead.
The eight points put the Sailors up 21-14 with five minutes, 52 seconds left and was set up on a fumble by Mustang quarterback Liam Fernandez on a passing attempt, Ranch’s fourth turnover of the game. The ball was slapped out of Fernandez’s hand and scooped up by Sarasota defensive lineman Javon Key, who returned it 55 yards to the Mustang 2. On second down, Johnson connected with Fritz just over the Ranch goal line.
But the Mustangs were far from dead. Getting the ensuing Sailor kickoff, on second down from his own 22, Fernandez took advantage of a blown Sailor coverage in the secondary to hit a wide-open Trent Huffman, who caught the ball at the Sailor 35, then took it in the rest of the way for the 78-yard score. Couple’s PAT evened the score at 21-all with a little more than five minutes left.
And when Sarasota went three-and-out with its next possession, the Mustangs, after letting a Sailor punt hit the ground and roll, took over on their own 9 with 3:30 left. But Fernandez engineered a drive, aided by a Sailor offside penalty on third-and-3 at the Ranch 16, that took the ball to the Sailor 9 with 11 seconds remaining.
At that point, Coue came onto the field for the 25-yard field goal. His first attempt was good, but Sarasota head coach Amp Campbell had called for his second time out before the kick. Campbell used his third and final TO as Coue again lined up for the kick, which was again good, giving Ranch a 24-21 lead with eight seconds left.
Sarasota had taken a 3-0 lead in the second quarter on a 38-yard field goal by Nicholas Schweid, the first of two for the Sailor kicker. It was the only scoring of the first half, though Ranch had a TD run by Colten Dempsey called back on a holding penalty. And on two drives in a row, starting at the Ranch 33, all the Sailors could muster was Schweid’s 38-yarder.
In the second quarter, Ranch took a 7-3 on Dempsey’s 21-yard TD run. Schweid’s second field goal, this one from 26 yards out, cut the Mustang lead to 7-6. A low snap on a Mustang punt ultimately was recovered by Sarasota and led to Johnson’s 1-yard score and 13-7 Sailor lead. Fernandez’s first TD pass to Huffman, this one covering 13 yards, put Ranch back in front, 14-13, heading into the final quarter.
For Ranch, Fernandez finished 8-of-12 for 158 yards, two TDs and one INT, by Sarasota’s Rai’zaun Roberts. Dempsey, bottled up much of the game, finished with 68 yards rushing and a score, but was Fernandez’s top receiver with five catches for 60 yards.
For the Sailors, they were limited to 31 yards rushing. Quarterback Hudson West went 8-of-20 for 73 yards.
Sarasota takeaways
1. The play on which Lakewood Ranch scored the game-tying TD just moments after Sarasota had taken a 21-14 lead still was bothering Sarasota head coach Amp Campbell after the game. “My DB ran up on the hitch instead of staying deep in the seam,” he said of Liam Fernandez’s 78-yard scoring pass to Trent Huffman. “He had the deep third; he ran up on the hitch. We went over that, went over it, went over it, he just blew the coverage. They made a lot of mistakes, we made a lot of mistakes. The big run that they scored on (Colten Dempsey 21-yard TD), we had 10 guys on the field. We didn’t have a 3-technique. Our guy was on the sideline. We beat ourselves.”
2. Lakewood Ranch quarterback Liam Fernandez fumbled and threw an interception. A Mustang punt returner allowed a bouncing ball following a Sailor punt to hit him, giving Sarasota possession. A snap on a Ranch punt was low, and the Sailors eventually took possession inside the Ranch 10. And all the Sailors got from this Mustang hospitality were two field goals and two touchdowns via a QB (Jordan Johnson) not even on the Sailor roster when the season began. “We fumble the ball on the opening drive down on the 5-yard line going in for a score,” Campbell said. “You can’t beat yourself. You’ve got to capitalize on that. If we get a touchdown, it’s a different outcome. We win the game. Too many mistakes.”
3. Down close to the Ranch end zone, Campbell twice replaced quarterback Hunter West with former Booker QB Jordan Johnson. On the first, Johnson scored on a 1-yard keeper. On the second, Johnson connected with Chase Fritz for a 2-yard TD. “We felt like Jordan, with his size, he can run the ball,” Campbell said. “We didn’t want Hudson running the football. We want him throwing the ball.” West finished just 8-of-20 for 73 yards. “He was a little off today,” Campbell said. “I’m not going to say it was tough for him, but we made some mistakes. I like the way we competed, but I hate losing. I’m just being honest. We had a great opportunity in front of us. We didn’t take advantage of it. So we’ve got to go back and get ready for Lehigh.”
Lakewood Ranch takeaways
1. Despite the Mustangs pulling out the come-from-behind victory, head coach Scott Paravicini didn’t sound like a winning coach. “We made way too many mistakes tonight and that’s my fault,” he said. “We made too many mistakes on Monday, and we made too many mistakes tonight, and that’s on me. We got to get back to the drawing board. Obviously, we show grit, we show potential every Friday night. We’ve lost two one-score games, and tonight, we let (Sarasota) hang around a little bit. But the willingness and the tenacity of my kids, I’m just super proud of them. To continue to fight is definitely there with them.”
2. The Mustangs used both Liam Fernandez and Caden Ott at quarterback. Ott, who has attempted fewer than 15 passes this season, threw for 42 yards when he was in the game. “Those two guys kind of work well together,” Paravicini said. “They give us different things and we’re trying to figure some stuff out on offense here that we can do going down the stretch of the year.”
3. When Amp Campbell used his second and third timeouts in an attempt to freeze Ranch kicker Louka Coue before his game-winning field goal, many in the crowd at The Preserve booed. Not using all your timeouts in a game you ultimately lose on a last-season kick, now that’s a reason to boo.
― Douglas Fernandes
Palmetto 30, Braden River 8
PALMETTO – The Palmetto Tigers remained undefeated at 6-0 on Friday night by shutting out the Braden River Pirates at Harllee Stadium.
Senior quarterback Jackson Roth, who entered the game with a lofty 72 percent completion percentage, completed 13-of-18 passes for 122 yards and three touchdowns. Sophomore Nazir Pitchford caught scoring passes of 3 and 57 yards and Joe Hills hauled in a touchdown pass of 17 yards from Roth.
Senior running back Marquez Brydson carried the ball 17 times for a total of 103 yards. He scored Palmetto’s first touchdown of the evening on a 45-yard burst. Liam Harold also booted a 25-yard field goal for the Tigers.
The Pirates (1-5) scored on a 7-yard touchdown pass from senior Lucas Despot to Finn Deleo.
The Tigers are home again next Friday night when they host the Lakewood Ranch Mustangs at 7 p.m. The Pirates remain on the road next Friday with their first Class 5A-District 9 game of the season at Pinellas Park High at 7:30 p.m.
Palmetto takeaways
1. The Tigers are undefeated and rolling under first-year head coach Eric Sanders. “We’ve been resilient,” Sanders said. “We’ve been able to overcome some adversity. We’ve found ways to win games. Different guys have stepped up each game.
“We find ourselves at 6-0. It’s a credit to these guys. We still have a long way to go.”
2. Sanders spent 12 years as offensive coordinator at Braden River and was named the Pirates head coach during the past offseason before taking the job at Palmetto. He saw lots of familiar faces on the opposite sideline.
“It was a little different,” Sanders said. “But at the same time, you just play football. You go out there between the lines and compete. You try to take nothing personal.”
3. The Tigers look like a team that could make a deep run in the playoffs midway through the regular season. “We’re balanced right now,” Sanders said. “We want to stay that way. We can get better.”
Braden River takeaways
1. Despot was under constant pressure from the Palmetto defense. The senior quarterback still managed to complete 12-of-20 passes for 54 yards. Junior Julian Brown led the Braden River ground attack, rambling for 87 yards on 15 attempts.
2. After trailing 17-0 at the half, the Pirates found a spark on the second-half kickoff. Left-footed kicker Brandon Galloway tried an onside kick that teammate Jayden Bettencourt recovered at the Palmetto 42-yard line. However, the Braden River drive stalled and the Pirates gave the ball up on downs.
3. Jason Grain is in his first year as head coach at Braden River after being the top man at Cape Coral Oasis.
“This is a great group of kids,” said Grain, who was an offensive lineman at USC. “They are playing their butts off. The seniors are giving it all they got. We have guys in roles playing above where their progression is. We are starting some young guys. They are turning into men.”
― Jim Brockman
Sebring 31, Booker 14
SARASOTA — Scottie Littles was clearly frustrated with his Booker football team following Friday’s 31-14 loss to visiting Sebring. And he had several reasons for the frustration.
Booker couldn’t get out of its own way in a penalty-plagued game that took nearly three hours to finish.
Even after the Tornadoes thought they had some momentum going following a defensive score early in the second half, Sebring (4-2) snatched it right back and never relinquished it.
“We got some breaks and we knew we couldn’t kill ourselves,” Sebring coach LaVaar Scott said. “We kept playing and our coaches made some good adjustments. It was a good team win because (Booker) is a special, talented team.”
The Tornadoes (3-3) have a short week to get things turned around with Gibbs coming to town on Thursday.
“We’ll see who shows up on Monday with the right mindset, and go with them,” Littles said.
Booker takeaways
1. Mistake-laden game: The Tornadoes were penalized 19 times for 158 yards and had five turnovers. One was a muffed punt that led to a 31-yard field goal by Sebring’s Kevin Morales-Salvador to give the Streaks a 10-7 lead late in the second quarter. The Tornadoes were even late coming out of the locker room after halftime, drawing an unsportsmanlike delay of game penalty.
As good as the defense was for most of the night, the Sebring offense eventually wore them down while rattling off 21 unanswered points. The Blue Streaks were led by senior running back Keveun Mason, who ran for 64 yards and two touchdowns and also threw a 46-yard scoring pass to junior Dejuan Austin late in the third quarter to put Sebring up for good. Austin, who also scored on a 47-yard pass in the first quarter, was left uncovered by the Booker defense on the halfback pass.
2. Long snaps were an issue: Booker’s first offensive play saw a shotgun snap go over the head of quarterback Joel Morris, who leaped to stop the ball from sailing past him. The ball deflected off his hands and into the hands of running back Rashawn Peterson, who was dropped for a 2-yard loss. That led to a three-and-out, but the punt snap was high as well and Tyree Manning was forced to take off. He was stopped well short of a first down. The Booker defense held Sebring scoreless then, but the high snaps were an issue throughout the evening.
3. Hugan was a bright spot: Junior linebacker Kevontay Hugan was one star of the night for the Tornadoes. Hugan had a pair of sacks and returned a fumble 55 yards that gave Booker a short-lived 14-10 lead early in the third quarter.
“Kevontay is a great kid and does a great job,” Littles said. “We’ve got to be better for him, for the team, for the organization. We’ve got to fix us quick.”
― Ron Clements
North Port 56, Bayshore 0
BRADENTON – A struggling Bayshore team was no match for North Port Friday night as the Bobcats rolled over the Bruins at Balvanz Stadium.
North Port was effective running and passing the ball while holding Bayshore to minus-3 yards of total offense. The Bobcats also benefited from three interceptions and a fumble recovery in winning for the fourth time in five games.
Karyn Palmer got the Bobcats on the board on their first drive, capping off a 10-play, 72-yard drive with a 5-yard touchdown run. North Port was stopped on its next two possessions, but a blocked punt gave the Bobcats the ball at the Bruins 12 midway through the second quarter. Isaac Smith scored on a 3-yard run to give North Port a 14-0 lead and the Bobcats scored every time they had the ball for the rest of the game.
Bayshore greatly aided the Bobcats by giving them a short field for the rest of the first half as North Port would score three more times in less than two minutes to take a 35-0 lead into halftime.
First, Isaac Platt intercepted a Keshawn Parham pass and brought it back to the Bruins 18. Palmer scored on a 16-yard sweep two plays later for a 20-0 lead. Then, after Bayshore failed to pick up a first down on a forth-and-13 from deep in its own territory, Gino DiBene threw a 17-yard TD pass to Lee Camel. Two plays after the kickoff, Makai Bernard picked off a Parham pass near midfield and returned it for a score.
North Port got three more touchdowns in the second half with a running clock. Smith scored on another 3-yard run in the third quarter and Charles Cash caught a 47-yard TD pass from Andrew Burgos in the fourth quarter. Peter Kalphat finished the scoring with a 22-yard run, cutting back across the field to elude several Bayshore tacklers.
The Bobcats improved to 4-3 on the season and need two wins in their last three games to finish with a winning season for the second consecutive year. North Port will have a week off before hosting Hardee in their next contest.
North Port takeaways
1. The only thing North Port coach Garon Belser could find fault with was the number of penalties whistled on the Bobcats. North Port was penalized 10 times for 85 yards. “The penalties are frustrating because we’ve been a heavily penalized team because of our discipline issues,” Belser said. “But I think we got that in check for the most part.”
2. Kalphat led North Port with 96 yards rushing on 10 carries. DiBene completed 6 of 8 passes for 59 yards while Burgos was 2 for 3 for 52 yards. “We were very efficient there,” Belser said. “I’d like to keep that going to keep people honest. We are a running team after all, but we’ve got to keep them honest.”
3. The lopsided score enabled the Bobcats to get several backups some playing time. “We got some guys in that didn’t get to play very much this year,” Belser said. “Our guys did their jobs and that’s all we can ask. We’re not trying to humiliate anybody, but we’ve still got to play the game. The clock is still running. That’s the way it is.”
Bayshore takeaways
1. The Bruins were shut out for the fifth time this season, dropping to 0-6. “We didn’t come out and we didn’t fight tonight,” Bayshore coach Ace Sanders said. “We know we’re going to take some lumps this year but at the end of the day, the guys know that we want to fight. Just go out there and act like you want to be out there and act like this is the sport you want to play. That’s all we need to see. And tonight we didn’t do that. We kind of just went out there and just laid down kind of flat and kind of moping around. So that’s the biggest gold for us right now as coaches is getting these guys to play.”
2. Bayshore has only six seniors on its roster so Sanders has been forced to play several underclassmen as he rebuilds the program. “Underclassmen? Try freshmen,” Sanders said. “A lot of people thought we should probably play a JV schedule but if I can steal a year with my young guys now, and I get them banged up and knocked around little for one year, by the time they catch up and it’s their turn, they’ll be ahead of the curve. So we knew what this year was going to be, but our job as coaches is not to let them hang their heads down. Just get back up, keep fighting, and keep pushing, and just do what they have to do.”
3. Bayshore only picked up one first down the entire night, and that was by penalty near the end of the first half. Three different running backs struggled to find room to run and Parham was sacked four times while attempting to pass. The Bruins will travel to Boca Ciega next week.
― Bruce Robins
Parrish Community 37, Winter Haven 7
PARRISH – Jermaine Edwards turned his team’s bad start into a historic finish for the Bulls (5-1), rushing for a possible school-record 239 yards after his team fell behind in the first three minutes.
The 5-foot-6, 150-pound senior touched the ball on 10 of Parrish’s first 12 offensive plays and scored four touchdowns – on runs of 39, 4, and 5 yards and a dazzling, 52-yard punt return – en route to 323 all-purpose yards on the night.
“He’s a special kid and a special player,” said Parrish head coach Dylan Clark. “We’re going to try to give him the ball as much as we possibly can. Our offensive line did a great job and Jermaine’s an explosive athlete and a great kid.”
If the 4-year-old program’s official statistics match up, Edwards will have broken Javon Moss’ previous rushing record of 237 yards, set in a 62-7 rout of Bayshore in 2022. With 649 yards through six games, he also could eclipse Moss’ single-season school mark of 839.
Edwards says he never scored more than three times in any of his Pop Warner games – but he’s been unleashed the past two weeks, logging 47 carries for 448 yards and seven TDs.
“They want to give me the ball, so I can do what I’ve got to do to get in the end zone,” he said matter-of-factly. “I had a lot of fun with my guys (tonight).”
The Blue Devils (1-5) took a 7-0 lead on junior Michael Kearney’s 45-yard interception return. On third-and-4 from Parrish’s 48, left-handed quarterback Brycen Volz rolled to his right, saw no one open, and tried to heave the ball out of bounds. But a defender hit his arm and Volz’s pass fluttered into Kearney’s waiting arms.
It didn’t take Edwards long to make up for his teammate’s mistake.
He shredded the Winter Haven defense with a 20-yard run and an 18-yard reception, setting up a 39-yard TD run. After the Bulls recovered an onside kick, he ripped off another 30 yards in four carries, and Owen Thomlinson’s 31-yard field goal gave Parrish the lead for good.
Edwards’ electric return, through all 11 players on the Blue Devils’ punting unit, gave the Bulls a 23-7 cushion with 57 seconds left in the first half – and gave him 256 all-purpose yards (186 rushing) at the break.
Clark, however, downplayed the significance of any records.
“We care about the win, that’s what we care about,” he said. “Each week is the most important week. … The most important thing right now is winning Monday’s practice, and then Tuesday’s practice and Wednesday and Thursday.”
Moss’ single-game mark appears to have fallen when Edwards carried seven times for 37 yards during an eight-play, 60-yard drive early in the fourth quarter. Volz’s 28-yard pass to Dominic Rolle gave Parrish a first down at the Devils’ 21, and Edwards did the rest.
“We just rely on him, he’s a big part of this team,” Volz said of his teammate. “Jermaine is so explosive. Giving him the ball is probably the best chance we have to win a game.”
The Bulls outgained Winter Haven 412-56 and held their opponents to zero yards rushing.
Parrish takeaways
1. The future (more specifically, the next three weeks) is now for the Bulls. After Clark’s next four practices, Parrish embarks on a three-game stretch against Class 6A-District 11 opponents that will decide its playoff fate. First comes Gateway (1-6, 0-2), then Lennard (6-1, 2-0) and, finally, a home game against county rival Lakewood Ranch (4-2, 0-1). Clark isn’t worried about any letdowns next week, insisting the Bulls (0-1 in the district) are “a process team. … They’re still kids, but we have a certain standard that we try to live by on a consistent basis. We’re not a product team. We’re going to show up on Monday with the mentality that we’re 0-0 and (Gateway is) 0-0. We don’t circle any Fridays.”
2. Volz quickly regrouped after his costly mistake. “I knew I had to lift my team up and we had to move on,” he said. “I couldn’t let that get to me.” The 6-foot, 195-pound junior finished 7-of-14 for 56 yards – and ran for another 63, including a 35-yard breakaway down the home sideline with 5:43 left in the game. His older brother, Jackson, was a three-year starting QB at Parrish and his father – former Sarasota High head coach Ed Volz – is the Bulls’ offensive coordinator.
3. Long live the (Homecoming) king and queen. John Keen and Makayla Chenard were crowned during Parrish’s halftime ceremonies.
― Donnie Wilkie
Southeast 24, DeSoto County 8
ARCADIA — It was expected that there were going to be some initial shakeups at Southeast High when Curt Bradley took over as the head coach of a Seminoles team that went winless last season.
But midseason position changes for a team that entered Friday night at .500 might not have been as predictable.
Bradley tried some players at new positions at DeSoto County High School on Friday night, and it will be hard to move at least one of them after the Seminoles’ 24-8 win.
LaDavion Johnson, a junior who transferred to Southeast from Bayshore before this season, opened his Seminoles career as a wide receiver, but started at running back on Friday night and paced the offense well — rushing 17 times for 106 yards, including touchdown runs on each of Southeast’s first three offensive drives.
Along with Johnson’s position change, Bradley moved around running backs Devin Dukes (to linebacker) and Jayden Fields (to tight end) as well.
“We knew there was talent in this program,” said Bradley, who left Braden River to coach Southeast this past offseason. “It was going to be a matter of getting guys in the right spot and doing things the right way. For the most part, we’ve done that, but unfortunately, there’s some slip-ups here and there that we have to be on top of and make sure we’re getting done the right way.”
The Seminoles (4-3) didn’t need any time to adjust to their new-look depth chart in Arcadia — even despite coming off a 34-2 loss to St. Petersburg on Monday.
Sophomore quarterback Louisen Desinor and Johnson led the Seminoles on an 85-yard drive to open the game with Johnson punching in the game’s first points on a run from six yards out.
Twenty seconds later, Southeast scored again as defensive lineman Esteban Melendez-Ponce ripped the ball away on a bad hand-off by DeSoto County and made it halfway to the end zone before the Bulldogs began to give chase.
Johnson would add two more touchdowns on Southeast’s next two drives — a five-yard run and a 34-yard run in which he shook a Bulldogs defender to break free — as the Seminoles built a 24-0 lead at halftime.
“Credit to LaDavion,” Bradley said. “He’s done everything for us. He was a scout team player early in the year for us. He was playing receiver and special teams, and now he got a chance to shine at running back and he did a great job.
“He’s a really good football player. He does a lot of things for us. He played a little DB last week. We’re just finding guys who can do all sorts of different things and plugging them in.”
The second half, however, was not as encouraging for the Seminoles.
Their offensive drives included: a drive that started at the Bulldogs’ 16-yard-line, but ended in a turnover on downs after they gained just two yards, a lost fumble, and a punt at midfield.
However, their scoreless second half didn’t make much of a difference.
DeSoto County didn’t score until Christopher Lincoln Jr. punched in a 2-yard touchdown with 22.2 seconds remaining.
“There’s so few teams in high school football, college football or even the NFL that can afford to get off to a poor start,” DeSoto County coach Cliff Lohrey said. “There’s a few, but not when it’s two fairly matched teams, and coming into tonight, I told our guys I thought it was a 50-50 ball game.
“It is tough to start that way, but as disappointed as I was in our first half, we came out in the second half and didn’t lay our heads down and didn’t pack it in.”
Southeast Takeaways
1. Second-half slumber: The Seminoles weren’t nearly as crisp on offense in the second half. It’s the second straight game that Southeast hasn’t scored in the second half, and Bradley was at a loss for why that’s become a recent trend.
“That’s a great question. I must have the worst halftime speeches in the world,” Bradley said. “I’m not sure. I don’t know if we got complacent in the second half. I don’t know. Our energy in the second half has not been very good, and that’s something we have to get corrected with a big district game against Osceola next week.”
2. Point-after troubles: Southeast was without a kicker on Friday night, and opted to go for two-point conversions on every touchdown it scored. However, that didn’t work out very well for the Seminoles, who went 0-for-4 on those conversion attempts — something that could have gotten them in trouble if the game was closer.
3. Rebuilding in short order: Southeast went 0-10 last season and 1-8 the year before that. The Seminoles have just one winning season — a 5-3 record in 2021 — in the past decade. Now, they need to win just one more game to finish at .500 and two more games for a winning season. That’s no small feat for Bradley and Co., who rely on a roster of mostly sophomores and juniors.
― Vinnie Portell
Sarasota Christian 33, Gateway Charter 26
The Blazers overcame a slow start and four turnovers to steal a road win and improve to 4-3 on the season. Ben Milliken threw three more touchdown passes to bring his season total to 23 to go along with over 1,600 passing yards.
Colton Loftus had six catches for 97 yards and a TD. Justin Brock had an 80-yard kickoff return for a TD. On Defense Carson Spenn blocked two kicks and recorded 1.5 sacks and 13 tackles. Randall Collins had a sack and Trey Featherston recorded several tackles for loss. Collin Lawson recovered a fumble forced by Travis Miller to seal the game.
The Blazers will return home to take on Keswick Christian next Friday night. Keswick is 6-1 on the season.
― Staff Reports
Saint Stephen’s Episcopal 43, Jordan Christian Prep 0
Behind a dominant performance from the Falcons’ offensive line, Cam Brewer rushed for four touchdowns. Canadian QB Harry Jones completed his first passing touchdown in the USA and finished with eight completions and two passing touchdowns. Carson McBride had a receiving touchdown and Gavin Winterhalter had a receiving touchdown and four tackles on defense.
Austin Varga had a big night on defense with a safety, three tackles for loss, and a sack. Jed MacArthur added four tackles, a fumble recovery, and two sacks. Jeremy Stroh had two sacks, four tackles for loss, and a forced fumble.
― Staff Reports
OTHER SCORES
IMG Academy White 35, Fort Meade 9
Lakeside Christian 34, Classical Academy of Sarasota 14
St. John Lutheran 38, Bradenton Christian 21
This article originally appeared on Sarasota Herald-Tribune: Florida high school football Week 7 results for Sarasota, Manatee, Bradenton area
