September 6th, 7:00pm – Columbia at Gainesville. Join Marty Pallman (Play-by-play) and Mike Ridaught (Color) for all the action. The game will also air on FM-104.9 in Gainesville. Pre-game coverage starts at 7:00pm and kickoff is scheduled for 7:30pm.
Gainesville def. Columbia: 17-14
GAINESVILLE – Gainesville High opened the season with a win over a top 20 team and remained on top of the Prep Zone Power Poll.
The Class 6A Hurricanes (1-0) picked up four of the seven first-place votes following a 51-28 win over previous #20 Yulee. The ‘Canes built a 35-7 lead at the half as UF commit Chris Thompson had three TD catches and an interception return for a score – all in the first half.
Fletcher (Neptune Beach) picked up the other three first-place votes and remained second. The Class 8A Senators (11-3 last season) also got off to a great start in building a 35-0 lead at the half and cruised to a 52-0 win over Englewood (Jacksonville).
The top two teams will get tested this week as GHS hosts #3 Columbia (Lake City), a 50-0 winner against Baker County (Glen St. Mary), while Fletcher hosts #13 Bishop Kenny (Jacksonville).
The Prep Zone Power Poll ranks the top 20 high school football, basketball and baseball teams (regardless of classification) across 26 counties in north Florida (Alachua, Baker, Bradford, Citrus, Clay, Columbia, Dixie, Duval, Flagler, Gilchrist, Hamilton, Hernando, Jefferson, Lafayette, Lake, Levy, Marion, Nassau, Putnam, Sumter, St. Johns, Suwannee, Taylor, Union & Volusia counties). It is voted on weekly by sportswriters and sportscasters.
Madison County, which defeated Suwannee (Live Oak), 49-7, moved up one spot to fourth, while Mainland (Daytona Beach), which defeated previous #8 DeLand, 19-3, actually dropped one spot and fell to fifth.
Defending 4A state champion Bolles (Jacksonville) lost starting QB Colby Peters before the season opener to a sprain and partial ligament tear in his knee, but the Bulldogs (1-0) were still able to defeat Bayside (Palm Bay), 21-14. Peters is expected to return before the halfway mark for the 6th-ranked ‘Dogs.
First Coast (Jacksonville), which defeated Bolles in the Pre-season Kickoff Classic, is ranked seventh, while South Sumter (Bushnell), St. Augustine and Sandalwood (Jacksonville) round out this week’s top 10.
PREP ZONE POWER POLL – WEEK #2
(School, followed by first-place votes, classification overall record and total voting points)
1. Gainesville (4) (6A) (1-0) – 137
2. Fletcher (Neptune Beach) (3) (8A) (1-0) – 134
3. Columbia (Lake City) (6A) (1-0) – 115
4. Madison County (3A) (1-0) – 114
5. Mainland (Daytona Beach) (6A) (1-0) – 109
6. Bolles (Jacksonville) (4A) (1-0) – 105
7. First Coast (Jacksonville) (7A) (1-0) – 99
8. South Sumter (Bushnell) (4A) (1-0) – 96
9T St. Augustine (6A) (1-0) – 78
9T Sandalwood (Jacksonville) (8A) (1-0) – 78
11. Union County (Lake Butler) (1A) – 64
12. Bartram Trail (St. Johns) (6A) (1-0) – 59
13. Bishop Kenny (Jacksonville) (5A) (1-0) – 58
14TNorth Marion (Citra) (5A) (1-0) – 41
14TWarner Christian (South Daytona) (2A) (1-0) – 41
16. Jefferson County (Monticello) (1A) (0-1) – 35
17. DeLand (8A) (0-1) – 29
18. Trenton (1A) (1-0) – 26
19. Trinity Christian (Jacksonville) (3A) (1-1) – 25
20. Fleming Island (Orange Park) (7A) (1-0) – 14
Also receiving votes – Raines (Jacksonville) (4A) (1-0) – 10, Eagle’s View (Jacksonville) (2A) (1-0) – 9, Seabreeze (Daytona Beach) (6A) (1-0) – 5, Ribault (Jacksonville) (4A) (1-0) – 2 and Yulee (4A) (0-1) – 2.
September 4, 6:00pm – Join hosts Mike Ridaught and Marty Pallman as they talk high school sports with special guests: Oak Hall football coach Scott McDaniel and football players Danny Stirt, Nathan Koons, Nick Sarantos & Jackson Armstrong. Plus the release of the football Prep Zone Power Poll. We’ll recognize our first Trophy Shop Athlete-of-the-Week presented by Mark McGriff’s State Farm Insurance of Gainesville, along with a recap of our Sonic Players-of-the-Game.
Games
Eastside (Gainesville) at Buchholz (Gainesville)
Hawthorne at Keystone Heights
Trinity Catholic (Ocala) at North Marion (Citra)
Williston at PK Yonge (Gainesville)
St Augustine at Trinity Christian (Jacksonville)
Lafayette (Mayo) at Trenton
Newberry at Santa Fe (Alachua)
DeLand at Mainland (Daytona Beach)
Vanguard (Ocala) at Camden County (GA)
St. John Lutheran (Ocala) at Bronson
Clay (Green Cove Springs) at Fleming Island (Orange Park)
Crystal River at Nature Coast (Brooksville)
Results
Thursday, Aug. 30
Gainesville 51, Yulee 28
Oak Hall (Gainesville) 22, Florida School for the Deaf (St. Augustine) 6
Friday, Aug. 31
Bartram Trail (St. Johns) 54, Nease (Ponte Vedra) 17
Bay 29 Jefferson Co. (Monticello) 26
Bell 51 Aucilla Christian (Monticello) 20
Belleview 38 The Villages 27
Bishop Kenny (Jacksonville) 27 Middleburg 0
Camden Co. (GA) 53 Vanguard (Ocala) 7
Cedar Creek Christian (Jacksonville) 34 Seacoast Christian 0
Chiefland 20 Lecanto 0
Christ’s Church (Jacksonville) 49 St. John’s Country Day (Orange Park) 6
Columbia (Lake City) 50, Baker County (Glen St. Mary) 0
Dunnellon 37 West Port (Ocala) 28
Eagle’s View (Jacksonville) 53 Bishop Snyder (Jacksonville) 8
Eastside (Gainesville) 13, Buchholz (Gainesville) 10
Episcopal (Jacksonville) 67 Duval Charter 0
First Coast (Jacksonville) 34 Parker (Jacksonville) 12
Fleming Island (Orange Park) 31 Clay (Green Cove Springs) 14
Fletcher 52 Englewood (Jacksonville) 0
Forest (Ocala) 31 Lake Weir (Ocala) 7
Forrest (Jacksonville) 20 Oakleaf (Orange Park) 13
Fort White 45, Hamilton County (Jasper) 8
Hilliard 28 St. Joseph (St. Augustine) 0
Jackson (Jacksonville) 59 Stanton (Jacksonville) 13
Keystone Heights 41, Hawthorne 6
Madison County 49, Suwannee (Live Oak) 7
Mainland (Daytona Beach) 19 Deland 3
Mandarin (Jacksonville) 22 Atlantic Coast High School (Jacksonville) 20
Newberry 39, Santa Fe (Alachua) 7
North Marion (Citra) 27, Trinity Catholic (Ocala) 24 (2 OT)
Orange Park 21 Ponte Vedra 3
Palatka 30, Bradford (Starke) 20
Paxon (Jacksonville) 19, Interlachen 0
Penial Baptist (Palatka) 12 Ocala Christian 6
Raines (Jacksonville) 39 Providence (Jacksonville) 14
Ribault (Jacksonville) 21 Wolfson (Jacksonville) 14
Ridgeview (Orange Park) 38 Creekside (St. Johns) 13
Sandalwood (Jacksonville) 48 Baldwin 18
Springstead (Spring Hill) 48 Ridgewood (New Port Richey) 0
St. Augustine 27 Trinity Christian (Jacksonville) 18
St. Francis (Gainesville) 20, Robert F. Munroe 14
St. John Lutheran (Ocala) 35, Bronson 8
Taylor County 20, Dixie County (Cross City) 19
Trenton 42 Lafayette (Mayo) 26
Umatilla 42 Calvary 6
Union County (Lake Butler) 19, Fenandina Beach 0
University Christian (Jacksonville) 36 West Nassau (Callahan) 13
Warner Christian (South Daytona) 80 Temple Christain 0
White (Jacksonville) 49 Lee (Jacksonville) 24
Williston 24, P.K. Yonge (Gainesville) 13
August 31th, 7:00pm – Trinity Catholic at North Marion. Join Mike Ridaught (Play-by-play) and Kyle Benzion (Color) for all the action. The game will also air on AM-900 & FM-100.1 in Ocala and AM-1230 Gainesville.
North Marion def. Trinity Catholic: 27-24 in double OT
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August 30th, 6:30pm – Yulee Hornets at Gainesville Hurricanes from Citizens Field in Gainesville. Join Marty Pallman (Play-by-play), Joey Cuffari (Color) and Tyler TenBieg (Sidelines) for all the action. The game will also air on 104.9 FM in Gainesville. Click Here To Listen I couldn’t make it out to film the game so here’s the Fox Sports Stream. http://www.foxsportsflorida.com/
Gainesville def. Yulee: 51-28 (replay)
GAINESVILLE – Following a couple of deep playoff runs and a team loaded with talent this year, Gainesville High School garnered enough total votes to start on top of the preseason Prep Zone Power Poll.
The Class 6A Hurricanes (10-3 last year), who have lost to the eventual state champion the past two years (Seffner Armwood & Tallahassee Lincoln), didn’t receive any first-place votes but edged Fletcher (Neptune Beach) by two total voting points, 112-110, for the No. 1 ranking.
The second-ranked Class 8A Senators (11-3 last season), which also made a deep playoff run last year before losing to eventual state champion Plant in the state semifinals, received two of the six first-place votes.
The Prep Zone Power Poll ranks the top 20 high school football, basketball and baseball teams (regardless of classification) across 26 counties in north Florida (Alachua, Baker, Bradford, Citrus, Clay, Columbia, Dixie, Duval, Flagler, Gilchrist, Hamilton, Hernando, Jefferson, Lafayette, Lake, Levy, Madison, Marion, Nassau, Putnam, Sumter, St. Johns, Suwannee, Taylor, Union & Volusia counties). It is voted on weekly by sportswriters and sportscasters.
First Coast (Jacksonville) is ranked third. The Class 7A Bucs (13-1 last year) reached the title game in 2011 for the first time in school history. They received half (3) of the first-place votes.
Mainland (Daytona Beach) is ranked fourth, while Madison County, which advanced to the 3A state championship game last year, rounds out the top five.
Bolles, which won its 11th state title in school history last season, is ranked sixth. The Bulldogs (13-1 last year) received the other first place-vote.
Columbia (Lake City) is ranked seventh, while DeLand is ranked eighth.
Ninth-ranked Jefferson County, which won its sixth state championship in school history and their first since 1991, is ranked two spots ahead of No. 11 Union County (Lake Butler) (11-1 last year), which advanced to the state semifinals for the first time since 2004, but lost to Jefferson County in the 1A semifinals.
South Sumter (Bushnell) rounds out the top 10.
There are some big match-ups this week in the top 20. Top-ranked Gainesville hosts #20 Yulee on Thursday night, #14 St. Augustine travels to #13 Trinity Christian (Jacksonville), #4 Mainland (Daytona Beach) will host #8 DeLand and No. 18 North Marion hosts (RV) Trinity Catholic.
PREP ZONE POWER POLL – WEEK #1
(School, followed by first-place votes, classification and total voting points)
1. Gainesville (6A) – 112
2. Fletcher (Neptune Beach) (2) (8A) – 110
3. First Coast (Jacksonville) (3) (7A) – 99
4. Mainland (Daytona Beach) (6A) – 89
5. Madison County (3A) – 88
6. Bolles (Jacksonville) (1) (4A) – 86
7. Columbia (Lake City) (6A) – 85
8. DeLand (8A) – 71
9. Jefferson County (Monticello) (1A) – 69
10. South Sumter (Bushnell) (4A) – 53
11. Union County (Lake Butler) (1A) – 52
12. Sandalwood (Jacksonville) (8A) – 51
13. Trinity Christian (Jacksonville) (3A) – 49
14. St. Augustine (6A) – 46
15. Bishop Kenny (Jacksonville) (5A) – 45
16. Bartram Trail (St. Johns) (6A) – 44
17. Warner Christian (South Daytona) (2A) – 26
T18 North Marion (Citra) (5A) – 19
T18 Trenton (1A) – 19
20. Yulee (4A) – 16
Also receiving votes – Ponte Vedra (5A) – 12, Trinity Catholic (Ocala) (3A) – 10, and Eagle’s View (Jacksonville) (2A) – 9.
