Orlando area high school scores and top performers for Thursday, May 18 • Montverde pole vaulter, Lake Highland hurdler win FHSAA state championships at UNF
 Sentinel Sports Final Friday, May 19, 2023 | | |
| | | | | The Sentinel's Jason Beede is in Tallahassee to follow what UCF hopes will be the start of a deep run into the NCAA tournament. The championship season for spring high school sports are kicking into high gear with track and field, softball and baseball. Weather, however, put a damper on spring football games and the NCAA tournament tennis quarterfinals at Lake Nona. On the pro sports front, the Denver Nuggets are halfway to their first NBA Finals appearance with a fourth-quarter comeback that knocked the wind out of the Lakers. It's easy to tell when LeBron James is running on fumes. He settles for 3s, which has never been his strength. His repeated misses (0-for-10 for the series) fueled Denver's transition game. And Anthony Davis (4-for-15 shooting) always appears to be on rubbery legs. The Florida Panthers, of course, don't wanna hear it. They had to play four OTs just to go up 1-0 vs. Carolina in an NHL conference final. And the once red-hot Tampa Bay Rays are now complaining about being (yawn) tired. Their 10-game road trip came to a merciful end. Now everyone catch your breath. It'll all start again this weekend. Can't wait. | | | | No. 3 Florida State hosts UCF, South Carolina and Marist in this weekend's Tallahassee Regional. Here's what know about each team, including how they reached this point and which players to keep an eye on as all four programs aim to reach an NCAA Super Regional. | | | | | Thursday's high school scores report includes game results and top performers for Orlando area teams in spring football and the FHSAA Class 2A state track and field meet. | | | | | Alex Georgiev was the boys pole vault champion, as expected, and Lake Highland Prep's Cedric Johnson Jr. was a surprise winner of the 400-meter hurdles race. | | | | | The Lakers lead for nearly all of the first three quarters, but Murray scores 23 of his 37 points on 6-for-7 shooting during an electric fourth as Denver grabs a 108-103 victory. Game 3 is Saturday night in Los Angeles. | | | | | Taj Bradley, who was 3-0 with a 3.52 ERA in his unexpected April cameo, worked 5 solid innings, allowing the 2 runs, 3 hits and 2 walks while striking out 4. An 86-pitch count ended his day. The Rays on Friday open a season-long 10-game homestand against three contending teams: the Milwaukee Brewers, Toronto Blue Jays and L.A. Dodgers. | | | | | UCF removed the "acting head coach" title from Jenny Maurer on Thursday and promoted her to the full-time job just three weeks after the program's all-time winningest coach, Todd Dagenais, announced his resignation to pursue a professional job. | | | | | Bryson DeChambeau Rediscovers His Groove at the PGA Championship | | | | | Matthew Tkachuk beat Frederik Andersen in the final seconds of the fourth overtime to lift the Florida Panthers past the Carolina Hurricanes 3-2 early Friday to open their Eastern Conference final series. Tkachuck took a feed from Sam Bennett after Florida had won a battle for the puck as Carolina tried to clear the puck. He then whipped a shot from the right circle past Andersen with 12.7 seconds left for the winner. It marked the longest game in either franchise's history, as well as the sixth-longest game in NHL history. | | | | | If the Heat need teaching points after Wednesday night's 123-116 victory over the Boston Celtics going into tonight's Game 2, such examples are ample and available. | | | | | The ACC is transitioning to a 3-5-5 model, where every team has three permanent rivalry opponents they will play each year while cycling through the remaining teams on an every-other-year basis. It's a format that's become popular with the American Athletic Conference eliminating divisions last season and the Pac-12 and Mountain West conferences following suit this season. | | | | | Deltona, Hagerty, Windermere, Montverde and Foundation Academy join top seeds Lake Brantley and OCP in advancing to regional finals. | | | | | Play resumes today at USTA National Campus. Later rounds have been pushed back one day with the title match now scheduled for Sunday. | | | |
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