PLANT CITY OBSERVER
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HALEY, CHAMBERS
PLACE AT WRESTLING STATES Two area athletes finished the FHSAA tournament on the podium last weekend.
BASEBALL
SOFTBALL
Mar. 28
Mar. 6
Mar. 6
Bloomingdale at Strawberry Crest, 7 p.m.
Bloomingdale 12, Strawberry Crest 0
Durant vs. Plant City, 3 p.m. Strawberry Crest vs. Lennard, 3 p.m.
Mar. 7
Mar. 7
Apr. 1
Plant City 7, Durant 0
Durant 2, Plant City 1 (9 innings)
Durant vs. Spoto, 3 p.m. Plant City vs. Brandon, 3 p.m. Strawberry Crest vs. Freedom, 3 p.m.
Strawberry Crest 9, Freedom 0 Mar. 9 Durant 7, Chamberlain 0 Sickles 11, Plant City 1 Strawberry Crest 5, King 0 Mar. 11
Mar. 8 Freedom 15, Strawberry Crest 1
TRACK AND FIELD
Mar. 11
Mar. 15
Newsome 1, Plant City 0
Plant City, Crest: at Jack Rice Invite, 4 p.m.
Mar. 12
Mar. 27
Wiregrass Ranch 8, Strawberry Crest 2
Durant, Plant City, Crest: at Western Conference, 1 p.m.
Mar. 13
Apr. 2
Riverview at Durant, 7 p.m.
Durant, Plant City, Crest: at Vernon Kohrn County Championships, 1 p.m.
Hendon Haley placed fourth in the 132-pound division. JUSTIN KLINE SPORTS/ASSOCIATE EDITOR
Hendon Haley and Amneous Chambers walked away from last weekend’s FHSAA 3A state wrestling championships with a similar goal achieved. Both wrestlers — Haley from Durant, Chambers from Strawberry Crest — proved themselves as belonging in elite company as some of Florida’s greatest grapplers. They each had strong showings and managed to place. Haley was the area’s highest finisher, coming in fourth place at the 132-pound tournament’s end and achieving his goal of joining his brother, Chase, as family members who have managed to both qualify for and place in the tournament. He started the tournament by picking up a 6-1 decision over Miami-Columbus’s Dylan Mira. Haley then scored a fall over Fort Pierce’s Travon Ross at 1:31, which put the Durant Cougar in a semifinal match with eventual state champ Bretli Reyna of South Dade. Reyna sent Haley into the third-place bracket by scoring a technical fall at 5:02. Haley faced off against Miami-Palmetto’s Destin Jones in the third-place semifinal and came away with the 7-5 decision, putting him up against North Miami’s Jackson Wenberg in the thirdplace match. Wenberg won with an 8-1 decision. Before the tournament began, Haley told the Observer his goal was to place at states this month and attempt to win the tournament in his senior season. He completed the first goal and will soon begin working toward the second. Of the three wrestlers Crest sent to Kissimmee, Chambers had the best outing at the tournament. The 182-pounder began his weekend with a win over Fort Pierce’s
William St. Krantz, scoring a fall in 5:12. The Charger then took a loss in sudden victory-1 to Southwest Miami’s Adrian Vidaud, who went on to win the tournament. Chambers entered the third-place bracket in its second round with a match against Miami-Palmetto’s Josh Mizelle, whom he beat by 6-3 decision. He then picked up a 4-1 decision over Gainesville-Buchholz’s Armando Acosta to pick up some momentum, but Celebration’s Alfonso Serrano handed Chambers his second loss in sudden victory-1 to send the Charger into the fifth-place match. Chambers sealed his fifth-place finish with a 9-5 decision over Coral Park’s Sammy Bencid. Also representing Strawberry Crest were Jarrett Affronti (126 pounds) and Triston Davidson (160 pounds). Affronti lost by a 6-4 decision in the first round to Timber Creek’s Jayden Tapia, then lost to Wellington’s Tony Widrig by fall at 2:10. Davidson beat Fleming Island’s Tanner Hill by 7-2 decision to advance to the second round, where eventual state champ Brevin Balmeceda of South Dade beat him by technical fall at 4:10. Davidson beat Pinellas Park’s Brevin Blake with a fall at 3:52 in the third-place bracket to advance to its semifinal round, where he lost by 5-0 decision to Osceola’s Nolin Eaddy.
Justin Kline is the Sports Editor at the Plant City Observer. Email: jkline@plantcityobserver.com.
Plant City 6, Newsome 1 (8 innings) Mar. 12 Strawberry Crest 5, Wiregrass Ranch 3 Mar. 13 Riverview at Durant, 7 p.m.
Strawberry Crest at Plant City, 7 p.m. Mar. 22
Strawberry Crest at Plant City, 7 p.m. Mar. 16
Mar. 26
Sickles vs. Durant, 4 p.m. Plant City vs. Plant, 7 p.m. Chamberlain vs. Strawberry Crest, 4 p.m.
Durant at Bloomingdale, 7 p.m. Plant City at Riverview, 7 p.m. Plant at Strawberry Crest, 7 p.m.
Mar. 18
Mar. 28
Armwood vs. Durant, 4 p.m. Plant City vs. Blake, 7 p.m.
East Bay at Durant, 7 p.m. Wharton at Strawberry Crest, 7 p.m.
Mar. 19
Mar. 29
Jefferson vs. Durant, 7 p.m. Plant City vs. Brooks DeBartolo Collegiate, 4 p.m. Brandon vs. Strawberry Crest, 7 p.m.
Bloomingdale at Plant City, 7 p.m.
Apr. 8 Durant, Plant City, Crest: at District championships, 9 a.m. FLAG FOOTBALL Mar. 14 Durant at Bloomingdale, 7:30 p.m. Plant City at East Bay, 7:30 p.m. Strawberry Crest at Riverview, 7:30 p.m. Mar. 26 Durant at Strawberry Crest, 7:30 p.m. Plant City at Riverview, 7:30 p.m. Mar. 28 Durant at Plant City, 7:30 p.m. Strawberry Crest at East Bay, 7:30 p.m. Apr. 1
Freedom at Durant, 5/7 p.m.
Riverview at Durant, 7:30 p.m. Plant City at Newsome, 7:30 p.m. Tampa Bay Tech at Strawberry Crest, 7:30 p.m.
Durant at Bloomingdale, 7 p.m. Plant City at Riverview, 7 p.m. Plant at Strawberry Crest, 7 p.m.
Mar. 29
Apr. 4
Durant at Newsome, 5/7 p.m.
Mar. 28
Bloomingdale at Durant, 5/7 p.m.
Durant at Tampa Bay Tech, 7:30 p.m. Bloomingdale at Plant City, 7:30 p.m. Strawberry Crest at Newsome, 7:30 p.m.
Mar. 26
Mar. 29 Bloomingdale at Plant City, 7 p.m. Mar. 30 Durant at Alonso, 10 a.m. Courtesy of SCHS
Mar. 14
Durant vs. Admiral Farragut, 7 p.m. Strawberry Crest vs. Palm Harbor University, 7 p.m.
Mar. 14
East Bay at Durant, 7 p.m. Wharton at Strawberry Crest, 7 p.m.
Amneous Chambers placed fifth in the 182-pound division.
THURSDAY, MARCH 14, 2019
SCORES AND MORE
Mar. 8
Courtesy of John Haley
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LACROSSE Mar. 26
Apr. 2
Apr. 8 Apr. 5 Sickles at Durant, 5/7 p.m.
Armwood at Strawberry Crest, 7:30 p.m. Apr. 11
TENNIS Mar. 14 Durant vs. East Bay, 3 p.m. Plant City vs. Lennard, 3 p.m.
Plant City at Strawberry Crest, 7:30 p.m.
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