This week marks our 28th and 29th episodes of “The Prep Zone Sports Show” for the 2025-26 college yr.
Since the primary present of the yr on Aug. 20, we’ve had tons of of athletes and coaches onsite at regionally owned Sonic Drive-In of Gainesville (NW 39th Avenue and SW Archer Road). We streamed ‘live’ and ‘archived’ audio of the exhibits on Mainstreet Daily News and The Prep Zone.
Our fall exhibits included soccer, volleyball, cross nation, golf, and swimming and diving groups within the space. We had particular options, like the highschool soccer playoffs and a National Signing Day present.
In the winter, we had native ladies and boys soccer groups on this system, together with ladies weightlifting and ladies and boys basketball.
As we moved into March, our friends included wrestling, softball and baseball, and we expanded to ladies flag soccer and tennis.
We did our greatest to function as many faculties as attainable and hosted groups from Buchholz, Eastside, Gainesville, Hawthorne, Newberry, P.Okay. Yonge, Saint Francis Catholic Academy, The Rock School, Trenton, Union County (Lake Butler) and Williston.
Last week, our friends had been the FHSAA Baseball Rural state champion Union County and head coach Jiwan James. The Tigers received their first state title since 2012 with a wild 10-9 victory against Trenton in the state championship game.
They nonetheless had their bleached blonde hair, with blended emotions on returning to their pure colour or retaining the blonde look. I requested what the over/below on that was. Here is the link to last week’s show.
We missed just a few Wednesdays within the month of May, however that’s as a result of we had been both broadcasting or protecting the state playoffs.
I used to be in Jacksonville on Wednesday, May 6, to cowl the FHSAA Class 1A Track & Field championships, in Fort Myers the next Wednesday, protecting Trenton and Union County baseball in the Rural state semifinals, and in Longwood on Wednesday, May 20, protecting Trenton softball towards Liberty County (Bristol) in the Rural state championship game.
Since we missed just a few exhibits, we determined to increase our protection into June. For the primary time, no less than this yr, we now have two exhibits in a single week.
Perhaps the most effective half about final week and this week is that we’re ending our exhibits for the yr with back-to-back-to-back state champions, and they are all Tigers.
Marty Pallman joined me in Fort Myers for the baseball ultimate 4 and co-hosted final week’s present.
The following week in Longwood, I broadcast Columbia (Lake City) softball’s state semifinal win on the NFHS Network and Marty broadcast their state championship game online.
It’s powerful to be unbiased when you find yourself calling video games like that. Our job as a play-by-play announcer is to make it as thrilling as attainable for each audiences.
But for me, I used to be pleased that I received to name a walk-off in the state semifinals and I’m certain there is part of Marty who was excited to name a state championship for Columbia.
This Thursday from 6-7 p.m., Marty and I will probably be joined by Columbia head coach Joe Saucier and the Class 4A state champion Tigers at regionally owned Sonic Drive-In on thirty ninth Avenue in Gainesville.
We’ll positively speak about this system’s first softball state title in 13 years, and their 16-game profitable streak to finish the season, and we’ll get to know Saucier and the ladies a little bit bit extra and what it was wish to convey residence the gold.
But first, the Trenton softball staff, which received its third straight state title, will probably be our friends tonight from 6-7 p.m. at regionally owned Sonic Drive-In (Archer Road). Trenton head coach Kevin Benson and University of Florida commit Addison Allaire are among the many many friends on the present
You can take heed to both shows ‘live’ online here.