There was plenty of offense to be had on a cool and breezy Wednesday afternoon at Hammond Stadium, as the Red Sox took care of the Twins 14-6 in Spring Training action. The second of eight Chairman’s Cup games between the two squads that call Fort Myers home went to Boston (2-2), which ...
Wednesday Baseball Mariner 3, Barron Collier 1: Michael Scalise and William Wilson combined to hold BC to three hits and a run. Jeffrey Mackey went 2-for-4 with a run scored, while Sam Duvall and Gavin Zicciardi drove in a run each. The Tritons evened their record at 3-3. Softball Mariner ...
Tuesday Baseball Island Coast 2, Ida Baker 0: Kevin Rodriguez pitched a perfect game (no runs, no hits, no errors) to get the best of a pitching duel. Rodriguez struck out 15 for the Gators (5-1). Kevin Martinez had an RBI. Ida Baker (3-4) pitcher Jonah Myers was victimized by four errors. He ...
When you do something only one other pitcher has done in the history of baseball, what do you do for an encore? If you are Twins right-hander Kenta Maeda, who posted the second-lowest walks and hits allowed per inning (WHIP) rate in the history of baseball last season, you work on introducing ...
When you travel down the rocky dirt road to the back fields at JetBlue Park in Fort Myers and watch Boston Red Sox third baseman Rafael Devers in batting practice up close, reality fades away like the train on “Mister Rogers' Neighborhood” taking you to the “Neighborhood of ...
For Florida baseball fans, the COVID-19 pandemic was heart-wrenching, altering the 131-year-old tradition of Spring Training in Florida for the first time since the 1994 players' strike extended into the spring of 1995. The pandemic of March 2020 struck in the middle of Spring Training, ...
Cape Coral wrestling programs were well represented at the Region 2A-3 wrestling championships this past weekend at Charlotte High School in Punta Gorda. All four public high schools put one wrestler in the regional finals on Saturday, winning two, while putting three other wrestlers through ...
Unfortunately, all good things must come to an end. Such was the case last Friday as the Mariner boys soccer team fell in the 4A State Semifinal to an undefeated Arnold club, 3-0. While the disappointment of not being able to return to the state final and avenge their loss last year was ...
When the North Fort Myers High School girls soccer team was stunned in the district finals by Cape Coral, it would have been easy to write the squad off for this season, apparently facing a tough battle on the road against some of the best teams in the state. Well, the Red Knights didn’t ...
Saturday Wrestling Region 2A-3 Six Cape-area wrestlers earned trips to the state Class 2A meet with their performances Saturday. Christopher Minto (120 pounds) of Mariner and Ida Baker's Angel Alverio (22) won regional championships. Jaden Harrah of Island Coast (138) and Justin Cole ...
