Orlando area high school scores and top performers from Thursday, May 6
Orlando Sentinel 5 hrs ago Steve Gorches, Orlando Sentinel
Jacksonville Stanton 9, Deltona Pine Ridge 5
Buzz: Stanton (16-12) scored 6 runs in the first two innings and held off the Panthers (8-14) to advance to Tuesday’s region semifinal.
Class 5A Region 2
Land O’ Lakes 10, Lake Minneola 0
Buzz: Lake Minneola season ends at 17-8. Land O’ Lakes (18-8) advances to Tuesday’s region semifinal.
Class 4A Region 2
Eustis 4, Citrus 3 (8 inn.)
Buzz: The Panthers (12-17) pulled out the win in 8 innings to advance into Tuesday’s regional semifinal against Bishop Moore. Scout Updike struck out 8 in the final 7 innings to get the pitching win, while Ty Van Dyke had a hit and RBI.
Victoria Young
A group of pageant winners are teaming up with the 1Can Organization in Cabarrus to help fight student hunger this upcoming school year.Â
After the pandemic closed schools to in-person learning in 2020, many students were without access to nutritional meals. To help kick start the 2021/22 school year off, Sheryl Kluge, founder of 1Can Inc., plans to donate 1,000 school snack packs to the Cabarrus County and Kannapolis City School systems. To help, six local pageant winners are helping Kluge collect food items for the snack packs.
These six pageant queens and princesses are:Â
Emmerson Perry, Miss Statesville s Outstanding Teen 2020 Carolina Princess
LISA KRISTOFF Tue, 04/20/2021 - 8:45am
It’s the accessory every Windjammer Days lover needs . available at Harbor Mart downtown. Courtesy of Friends of WJD
Looks nice and soft, doesn’t it? Don’t let that fool you: It’s protective as well as comfortable! Courtesy of Friends of WJD
At Friends of Windjammer Days’ April meeting, spirits were high as the committee chairs reported in. Discussions ensued both in person, for the first time, at Brady’s, and via Zoom for some of the volunteer members.
The Tall Ships Festival, originally planned for last year’s Bicentennial, will be a stunning prelude to Windjammer Days. The Tall Ships event docks June 24-27. Ships Spirit of Bermuda, Privateer Lynx (staying on into Windjammer Days), and the Oliver Hazard Perry will be docked near one another: Lynx at Carousel Marina (and will be available for private charter), Spirit of Bermuda, 110 feet long, is staying for one week, first at the Town Dock, then Bristol Marine; Ol
BILL PEARSON Mon, 12/14/2020 - 1:45pm
LPN Kenzie Cox used her medical training on Nov. 25 to save a man who collapsed in the small mall parking lot. Courtesy of Boothbay Harbor Police Department
2020 has been an eventful year for 21-year old Virginia native Kenzie Cox. In April, she married U.S. Coast Guardsman Corey Cox. In May, she graduated from Rappahahock Community College with a nursing degree. In June, she joined her husband stationed at the Boothbay Harbor Coast Guard Base. And in November, she saved a man’s life.
On Nov. 25, the day before Thanksgiving, Cox was waiting in the small mall parking lot for her medical appointment at Boothbay Regional Health Center. Cox was in her car and saw a man walking toward the parking lot. He suddenly collapsed. He fell to his knees before falling over and eventually was laying on his side. “It was like seeing a person drop to his knees after learning they had lost a child,” she said. “It was raining, and I wonder