Sports

After a year absence, soccer is alive and well in Franklin County. On Saturday morning, at the Day of Soccer, the Franklin County Youth Soccer League opened its season at the D.W. Wilson Sports Complex in Apalachicola. They could boast of 14 teams, seven from Apalachicola and seven from the Eastpoint-Carrabelle area. Betty Sasnett, the…

The energy that carried over from the afternoon homecoming parade through Eastpoint was palpable, and the crowd was robust for the game, as they came to watch the Franklin County Seahawks take on the 3-1 Aucilla Christian Warriors. Following the first ever appearance of the high school’s newly created Navy Junior ROTC color guard in…

The visiting Rutherford Rams handed the Wewahitchka Gators Friday night their second consecutive one-point loss of the young football season, 13-12, in a penalty-laden contest that had nearly as many flags flying as one might see at a Veterans’ Day parade. The night began with the honoring of seven Gulf County officials at mid-field, including…

David Torres of Shalimar said he was not fazed by the approaching boat’s warning – “Shark!” His family has seen many sharks in the waters of Gulf County, where they have been coming to scallop for more than a decade, and he had never heard of any shark attacks in the area. But the next sentence…

It was an afternoon of Franklin County Proud of its All-Star teams, from its littlest Darlings to the Team Florida boys to the older traveling ball Sandlot squad. In a spirited parade Sunday afternoon through the streets of Apalachicola, led by Police Chief Bobby Varnes, with the ballplayers riding high atop the Apalachicola fire trucks…

A review of boating accident statistics for 2020, issued earlier this summer by the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, shows that both Franklin and Gulf counties had a pretty safe, but by no means, perfect year. The Boating Accident Statistical Report report by the Division of Law Enforcement showed each county had five reportable…

They call themselves Sandlot for a reason and it’s not to puff up their chests and brag about being elite. Instead, it’s because this team is down to the red clay earth, a group of Franklin County boys who have grown up together, swung their bats together and played together. They’re not like the All-Star…

Tiger Woods, who became his own cautionary tale, made his redemptive comeback in 2019 when he won the Masters. It had been 3,950 days since his last major win. It was probably the best comeback story in sports, and one the nation universally cheered. Sadly, his recent crash into a tree doing 87 mph on…

The weather was a bit uncooperative, so it was delayed a couple weeks, but with July came the start of the newest artificial reef off the Franklin County coastline. The Buddy Ward Memorial Artificial Reef, named after a longtime leader of the area’s seafood industry, was deployed successfully on July 1 to its one-nautical-mile square…