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  • Lecanto advances to District 6A-6 semifinals with 12-6 victory

    C.J. Risak
    Correspondent
    LECANTO — The inconsistencies that have plagued Lecanto’s softball team all season made an appearance again in Monday’s District 6A-6 play-in game against West Port. The Panthers weathered this challenge, however, answering a four-run Wolf Pack attack in the second inning with a six-run rally of their own, en route to a 12-6 thumping in a game played at Lecanto.

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  • Postseason softball action begins

    C.J. Risak
    Correspondent
    Spring training is officially over for Lecanto’s softball team. The real season now starts — win or the season’s over.

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  • Sprited racing at Citrus County Speedway

    INVERNESS — Pro Challenge Series driver Paul White won his third consecutive series feature, while Sportsman driver Mike Bell picked up his second feature win of the season and Mini Stock competitor Mark Patterson captured his first-ever feature win on an occasionally contentious and hard-fought night at the Citrus County Speedway on Saturday that saw at least four crashes into the wall, all without injury.

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  • Seeing triple

    Steve Waters
    Correspondent

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  • Miller signs with Methodist

    C.J. Risak
    Correspondent

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  • Pro Challenge makes season debut

    The Open Wheel Modified, Sportsman and Pure Stock classes run for the first time in six weeks while the Pro Challenge series makes its first appearance since the track’s season opener in February in today’s action at the Citrus County Speedway.

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  • Like a rolling Stone

    Kevin Stone can vouch for the Citrus County Speedway’s motto as “the friendliest track in the South.” The 48-year-old Dade City driver felt an immediate bond with the racetrack and its community after giving the out-of-town venue a go in his second year of racing in 2005, and he’s made the trip to Inverness ever since.

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  • Panthers blast Crescent City

    Carl McDermott 
    Correspondent
    LECANTO — The Lecanto baseball team treated its visitors who traveled all the way from the east coast very rudely in Friday’s game. The Panthers handed the Crescent City Raiders an overwhelming defeat as they won the game 14-4 in six innings.
    Raiders coach Tim Ross scheduled this non-district game to bring him back to where he used to live.
    “We really don’t know much about the Panthers,” Ross said. “I brought the team back to an area I grew up in.” 

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  • Five-run frame paces Warriors to 7-2 win

    Donald Whitaker II
    Correspondent
    HOMOSASSA —  Better late than never.
    Seven Rivers Christian School (12-2) may need a coin flip with St. John Lutheran to decide the District 2A-3 winner, but first concentrated on the task at hand Friday night during a 7-2 blowout of Cornerstone Academy (9-7) at Dazzy Vance Field.
    Cornerstone struck first when Trey O’Shields bounced a single to first base, allowing starting pitcher Brian Lopez to score.

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  • Tigers drub Pirates

    DUNNELLON — Crystal River hitters managed just three hits against Dunnellon senior Michael Roberson as the Tigers clinched the No. 3 seed in District 5A-7 with an 8-1 defeat of the Pirates at Mike Payne Field on Friday.
    Crystal River (6-13 overall, 3-7 district) took advantage of a couple of Tiger errors and a sacrifice fly by senior left fielder Dallas Baldner to narrow its deficit to 2-1 in the fifth before Dunnellon (9-12 overall, 5-5 district) exploded for four runs on three hits and a pair of walks later in the inning while sending its entire lineup to the plate.

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