Local Sports

The long-simmering rivalry between the Wewahitchka and Franklin County softball teams moved off the back burner last week, as the two teams met for the second time this season, this time in Eastpoint. Franklin County had a better record, 10-4, going into the contest, and had won the teams’ first outing this season, a 5-0…

The Franklin County Lady Seahawks went to Alabama over spring break with their softball bats on their knees, and came back with a pretty darn good showing. And none was happier than junior Charity Larkin, a longtime journeyman member of the team who managed to blast her first varsity home run in the team’s opener…

Once again the Red Pepper Run 5K, held the first Saturday in March on St. George Island, drew an enormous field, making it among the most popular running events in Franklin County. Under the expert direction of Shelley Shepard, 158 runners ran the 5K on Saturday, March 2, the morning of the annual St. George…

It doesn’t get much better than last week’s first varsity baseball matchup this season between Franklin County and Port St. Joe. Twelve strikeouts in just under seven innings by the Seahawk starter, clutch hitting that saw the Tiger Sharks come back from a four-run deficit, and a walk-off win in the bottom of the eighth…

A pair of Franklin County High School soccer stars will be playing college soccer. At a signing ceremony last week in the media center, senior midfielder and striker Gideon Dively and senior left winger Esteban Bernabe inked a deal to play for the Southern Union State Community College Bisons in Wadley, Alabama. On hand was…

All of Florida Class 1A softball knows that junior Sarah Ham is among the very best pitchers in their midst. They might want to start paying attention to freshman Jayla Creamer. On just nine pitches, Creamer struck out all three of the Blountstown Lady Tigers she faced in the top of the seventh, to cap…

The Franklin County Lady Seahawks softball team took a first step in establishing their dominance over Gulf County last week by shutting out Wewahitchka and then edging Port St. Joe. In the Feb. 29 game at Wewa, junior Sarah Ham twirled a two-hit 5-0 shutout, striking out 12 Lady Gators and walking none over the…

The Franklin County Seahawks lost 9-6 to Taylor County Friday night. The Seahawks struck first with a run in the second, but the Bulldogs came back with three in the bottom of that inning. Franklin County tied it up with two more in the top of the third, and both teams scored two in the…

During the 2019-20 varsity softball season, the record books show that then seventh-grade pitcher Sarah Ham pitched a single inning. At the end of the season her stats, if they can be trusted, showed that she had given up two hits, one of them a double, and nine runs, walked three and struck out just…

The Franklin County boys basketball team managed to put together two furious finishes in their last two games of the postseason. Against Port St. Joe it was enough to win. Against the Crossroads Academy Scorpions, it fell short. The Seahawks opened district play Feb. 6 with a resounding 72-22 win over Wakulla Christian in Jefferson…