Basketball

by TIM GORDON

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Can a defensive battle be exciting? In a sporting ecosystem that places a value on offense, is there any place left for defense? More and more, the answer seems to be “no.”

Wednesday night’s culmination of Nature Coast’s annual Christmas tournament was both entertaining and anticlimactic—all at the same time. Nature Coast won the opening tip, but the visiting Plant City Raiders were in control the whole way.

She's a WNBA veteran who has played basketball around the world. She is a Hernando High School graduate who has returned to the area to introduce more young women to the joys of her sport--and of personal empowerment.

She is Bernice Mosby. And after playing forward for the Washington Mystics 2007-2009 and completing an auspicious run with the Women's Chinese Basketball Association and other international teams, Mosby has come home--ready to spread her love of the sport to girls from Orlando to her hometown of Brooksville through her Bernice Mosby Academy program.

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. 

Below are a few games we think are the matchups to watch for this week in Hernando County for high school basketball on the girls end. 

By Andy Villamarzo

Hernando Sun sports reporter

Below are a few games we think are the matchups to watch for this week in Hernando County for high school basketball on the boys end. 

By MEL SUITER
Hernando Sun

Photography by Alice Mary Herden

BROOKSVILLE, Fla. --- Hernando High School had a little magic, late Saturday afternoon January 4, 2020, inside the Leopard’s Den, but suddenly that too disappeared.
Bloomingdale High School captured third place at the 2019 Hernando High School Holiday Classic by defeating the Leopards 51-31.

Article and Photography by ALICE MARY HERDEN

New Port Richey-- Mitchell, Springstead, Wiregrass, Land O’ Lakes, Tampa Catholic, and River Ridge girls basketball teams banded together over the Christmas holiday weekend for cancer awareness.

By MEL SUITER, Hernando Sun Sports Reporter

Photography by Alice Mary Herden

BROOKSVILLE, Fla. --- Day one, had all the emotion that a tournament is supposed to have.

By Andy Villamarzo 

Hernando Sun sports reporter