Lady Seahawks run record to 7-1
With five consecutive wins, including a 29-17 win on Dec. 19 at home against Liberty County, the Franklin County Lady Seahawks are closing out 2024 on a hot streak.
The only loss by Jordan McNair’s squad came at home on Dec. 7, when the Maclay Lady Marauders won 47-14.
Senior Gregreyauna Griffin scored seven, sophomore Sa’ryiah McNair five, and freshman Aubrey Nowling two, but that was it.
The team opened in Perry Dec. 3, and topped Taylor County 30-19.
McNair scored 13, Griffin six, junior Thamia Thomas five and eighth grader Mercedes Davis and Nowling each three.
At Sneads on Dec, 6, Franklin County won 33-26.
McNair scored a dozen, Thomas nine, Griffin seven, two each by junior Mylie Smith and Nowling, and one by Davis.
Following the Maclay loss, the Lady Seahawks hosted Wewahitchka Dec. 10 and won 53-27 over the Lady Gators.
McNair hit for 21 points, with Griffin nailing 13, Nowling nine, sophomore Harmony Jones and freshman Ayla Miller each four, and two by Smith.
For Wewa, eighth grader Payton Suber scored nine, junior Shamiyah Cole six, four by freshman Janessa Small, and three each by eighth grader Janessa Clayton and sophomore Hadassah Dixon.
On Dec. 12 at home, the Lady Seahawks downed Jefferson County 45-30.
Griffin had a season-high 25 points, while McNair added 15, and Nowling five.
On Dec. 14, Franklin County downed St John Paul II 33-25.
At Wewa on Dec. 17, it was a much closer game than their first match-up, but the Lady Seahawks pulled off a 28-23 win.
For the Gators, Dixon scored a dozen including four three-pointers, Clayton six, Cole three and Suber two.
The Lady Seahawk roster
1 sophomore Sa’ryiah McNair
2 senior Gregreyauna Griffin
3 freshman Ayla Miller
10 junior Thamia Thomas
12 freshman Aubrey Nowling
15 sophomore Chloe Montgomery
24 senior Kendra O’Neal
33 junior Mylie Smith
sophomore Harmony Jones
freshman Anna Weber
eighth grader Mercedes Davis
Meet the Editor
David Adlerstein, The Apalachicola Times’ digital editor, started with the news outlet in January 2002 as a reporter.
Prior to then, David Adlerstein began as a newspaperman with a small Boston weekly, after graduating magna cum laude from Brandeis University in Waltham, Massachusetts. He later edited the weekly Bellville Times, and as business reporter for the daily Marion Star, both not far from his hometown of Columbus, Ohio.
In 1995, he moved to South Florida, and worked as a business reporter and editor of Medical Business newspaper. In Jan. 2002, he began with the Apalachicola Times, first as reporter and later as editor, and in Oct. 2020, also began editing the Port St. Joe Star.