softball

NEW PORT RICHEY- The first few games of the season for Nature Coast Technical’s varsity softball team haven’t been easy contests whatsoever. 

With all the winter sports now officially concluded in Hernando County, we move into the spring  season of athletics and it brings on baseball and softball. Along with baseball and softball is track and field and spring football. We take a brief look at all the prep softball teams across Hernando County and what to look forward to this upcoming 2020 campaign. 

Springstead boys basketball season ends in district semifinals

This past winter was a solid season for Springstead High School’s boys basketball team this 2019-2020 campaign, but it didn’t quite end the way many thought it would for the Eagles. 

BROOKSVILLE, Fla.--- She respects the game, she honors the game by playing hard and by all definition-she is a ballplayer.

As a student-athlete playing on the school’s softball team, Jean’a Mobley, 19, graduated from Hernando High School in 2018.

Mobley did not hang up her cleats after graduation.

By Andy Villamarzo 
Hernando Sun sports writer 

BROOKSVILLE- The long awaited trip to the state softball tournament is finally on the horizon. 
After sporting one of the best softball teams in school history in recent memory, the Leopards will be making their first ever appearance in the state tournament when they travel to Dodgertown in Vero Beach, FL. Hernando will face Coral Springs Charter at 9:50 a.m. on Thursday May 23, 2019. 

By Andy Villamarzo

Hernando Sun sports writer

The postseason for prep softball begins this week and only one team from Hernando County qualifies for the playoffs: the Hernando Leopards. The Leopards won’t be in a usual spot to begin the postseason, as Hernando begins the Class 5A playoffs on the road to face Orlando Bishop Moore.

NJCAA (National Junior College Athletic Association) D II District F championship held at Springwood Park in Burlington, NC is a double-elimination tournament and runs May 9-11.  Nine teams are competing in the tournament and PHSC will enter as the third seed. Who they will be playing against is unknown at this time.

About their unknown competition Coach, Ryan said,

APRIL 2, 2019- Past the midway point of the regular season for prep girls softball in the state of Florida have district tournaments just a couple weeks away and we here at the Hernando Sun want to give you the Hernando County reader all the insight you can get during the 2019 campaign. We now take a look at the Hernando Sun Top 5 Prep Softball Poll heading into the stretch run this season.

Article & Photgraphy by Cheryl Clanton

Wednesday March 13, 2019 at Nature Coast High School, it’s a clear nice cool night for girls softball. Players are introduced and team stats provided. Springstead Eagles have five wins and two losses, while Nature Coast has four wins and three losses. Both teams stand on the field for the National Anthem, some players swaying side to side in anticipation of the game. End of the Anthem you can hear cheers echo in the cool night. Let’s play ball.

The first games of the regular season for prep girls softball in the state of Florida started up a couple of weeks ago. Here is our ranking of the five teams within Hernando County considering the games that have been played so far.