Tate Gets District Win Over Washington (With Photo Gallery)
September 30, 2017
The Tate High School Aggies beat the Washington Wildcats for the sixth straight time Friday night at Pete Gindl Stadium in Cantonment. With the 35-17 win, the Aggies improved to 4-0 overall, 1-0 in District 1-6A.
Junior quarterback Hunter Riggan put the Aggies on the board late in the first quarter from less than a yard out, and Tate was up 7-0 with 1:48 on the clock.
Washington would strike back from about their own 20 yard line just inside the first quarter, 7-7. The Aggies scored again with 7:17 to go in the second quarter. Riggan found senior Alex Young for a touchdown, 14-7 the Aggies back on top.
Washington managed a field goal to wrap up the first half scoring, Tate on top 14-10 headed to the lockers.
Tate increased their lead to 21-10 with 3:59 to go in the third on a pass from Riggan to Patrick Palmer just inside the end zone.
Washington scored with 10:29 to go in the ballgame, 21-17.
Shemari Jones scored another Aggie touchdown with 5:51 in the fourth, and the Aggies added one more TD just over a minute to go for the final 35-17.
Tate sits out next week with an open date before facing Escambia at October 13. The Aggies and the Gators are tied for the top spot in District 1-6A, both at 1-0.
NorthEscambia.com photos by Jennifer Repine, click to enlarge.
Friday Night High School Football Scores
September 30, 2017
Here are Friday night high school football finals from around the North Escambia area:
FLORIDA
- Freeport 48, Northview 19
- Tate 35, Washington 17
- Baker 49, Jay 27
- Escambia 33, Pine Forest, 21
- Pensacola High 22, Bay, 19
ALABAMA
- Hillcrest-Evergreen 40, Escambia County (Atmore) 8
- Carroll (Ozark, AL) 26, W.S. Neal 13
- Tallassee 33 T.R. Miller, 29
- Flomaton (open)
- Escambia Academy (open)
Freeport Rolls Past Northview (With Photo Gallery)
September 30, 2017
The Northview Chiefs dropped their fifth straight Friday night in Bratt, losing 48-19 at Tommy Weaver Memorial Stadium.
“We ran the ball wonderfully, but we got behind,” Northview head coach Dereck Marshman said. “We got behind on the scoreboard and had to start throwing the football a little more.”
Freeport jumped out to a 7-0 lead with a long 95-yard touchdown with 4:47 to go in the first quarter.
The hometown Chiefs answered with a Trent Peebles touchdown at 9:51 in the second, 7-7 under the Friday night lights in Bratt.
With 7:05 before the half, Freeport was back on top 14-0 and jumped up 21-7 with 2:41 on the clock.
Freshman Jayden Jackson was in for a touchdown from about 35-yards out, recovering from a bad snap. The Chiefs were down 21-13 with 1:06 to go in the half.
“We didn’t play a really good first half,” Marshman said. “I know the score didn’t indicate it, but we made a lot of mistakes and left a lot of points out there. We made a lot of mistakes, even though we played with a lot of energy.”
Peebles would score again for the Chiefs late in the third.
“In the second half, those same mistakes came back to bite us. Both teams were real sloppy in the first half. We continued to play sloppy in the second half, and they continued to do what they needed to do,” he said.
Next week, the Chiefs will travel across the Escambia River to take on the Jay Royals on their home turf.
“Jay is always a big rivalry game, it’s going to be a challenge to get these guys up and ready to play. They just played their hearts and soul out and ended up a little short,” Marshman said. “It is Jay and a big rivalry game. Just the name itself with get the guys up sometimes.
The Northview Chiefs (1-5) and Jay (1-4) will face off at 7 p.m. next Friday.
NorthEscambia.com photos, click to enlarge.
Work Begins Monday To Lower Nine Mile Road Beneath I-10
September 30, 2017
Construction to widen Nine Mile Road from two to four lanes between Beulah Road and Pine Forest Road will require lowering the roadway beneath the I-10 overpass. Nine Mile Road will be lowered by about two feet.
Beginning Monday, Nine Mile Road will be reduced to one lane in each direction for about one-half mile on either side of the I-10 overpass. East and westbound traffic will be shifted to the inside lanes as crews lower the elevation of the outside roadway. Once crews have completed the work, traffic will be shifted to the outside lanes and construction to lower the inside travel lanes will begin. Drivers can expect the temporary lane closures to be in place until all work is complete.
File photo.
Muscogee Road Closed, 120 Day Detour Planned
September 29, 2017
A portion of Muscogee Road in Cantonment from Beulah Road to Carlisle Road was closed Thursday for reconstruction of the road.
Construction will consist of the installation of a water main, drainage, reconstruction of the one mile stretch of Muscogee Road and construction of 5-foot shoulders.
Traffic has been detoured via Highway 29 and Barrineau Park Road to Highway 112 in Alabama. The roadway closure is expected to remain in effect for approximately 120 days. Every effort will be made to expedite construction efforts to reopen the road as soon as possible, according to Escambia County.
Pictured: Muscogee Road was closed from Beulah Road to Carlisle Road Thursday afternoon. NorthEscambia.com photos by Kristi Barbour, click to enlarge.
One Injured In Car, Motorcycle Collision
September 29, 2017
One man has hospitalized after a car hit a motorcycle Thursday night in Beulah.
The accident happened just before 7:30 p.m. on Nine Mile Road close to Beulah Road. The man was transported to an area hospital by Escambia County EMS with injuries that were not life threatening. His name and condition have not yet been released.
The Florida Highway Patrol is investigating.
Woman Facing Felony Charges For Stolen Credit Cards, Loans
September 29, 2017
A Cantonment woman is facing multiple felony counts for using credit and debit cards belonging to her best friend and her mother-in-law, and using fraudulent information to apply for loans.
Tarah Elizabeth Mims, 35, allegedly made 12 charges totaling just over $625 to the female victim’s credit card. Mims also allegedly changed account information on the credit card to her home address while maintaining the victim’s name on the account.
The second victim reported that Mims, her daughter-in-law, had used her debit card to make $212.90 worth of charges at Apple iTunes for “cherries” for the “Bingo Pop” game.
She was also accused of obtaining loans in the names of both victims.
Mims’ estranged husband told deputies that his wife has a drug problem and that she had opened several fraudulent accounts and “payday” type loans under his name.
Mims was charged with two counts of fraudulent use of credit cards, possession of personal information with intent to use, criminal use of personal information, communications fraud and petit theft. She was released from the Escambia County Jail on a $4,500 bond.
Bratt Elementary Names Students Of The Month
September 29, 2017
The following students (pictured above) were named Students of the Month for September at Bratt Elementary School.
Pre-K
- Hayden Baston
- Emma Norton
Kindergarten
- Ella Grace Diller
- Gracie Norton
- Cameron Gipson
- Audrey Franklin
1st Grade
- Lane Lisenby
- Ava Marquis
- Autumn Heist
- Abigail Brown
2nd Grade
- Gabby Boatwright (not pictured)
- Kezia Henderson
- Landon Allcock
- Camden Jacobson
3rd Grade
- Janessa Cook
- Jackson Helton
- Kylee Langham
4th Grade
- Daniel Johnson
- Jackson Simmons
- Jessica Jowers
- Luke Chavers
5th Grade
- Maggie Scott (not pictured)
- Beau Daw
- Aliyah Fountain
- Derek Kinley
In addition, Jessica Jowers and Camden Jacobson were selected to represent Bratt Elementary as Escambia County Students of the Month for September.
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Hospitals Battle Cost Transparency Rules
September 29, 2017
Florida hospitals are battling back against a pair of proposed “transparency” rules requiring hospitals and ambulatory surgical centers to provide information to patients and prospective patients about potential costs of treatment.
A statewide group that represents most hospitals filed an administrative challenge last week that maintains the rules go beyond what is authorized by law.
The Florida Hospital Association also maintains the state underestimated the fiscal impact of the proposed rules and contends the rules require legislative approval before implementation because they would increase costs to hospitals and ambulatory surgical centers by more than $1 million over a 5-year period.
Agency for Health Care Administration spokeswoman Shelisha Coleman said the state doesn’t comment on pending legal matters and declined further comment. The agency filed a motion Tuesday arguing that an administrative law judge should dismiss the case.
The Florida Hospital Association represents more than 200 hospitals and health systems across the state. Many of those facilities also own or operate ambulatory surgical centers. The challenged rules — one aimed at hospitals, the other at ambulatory surgical centers — would require the facilities to provide information both online and personally to patients, prospective patients and responsible parties.
In the challenge, the association contends that what are known as “statements of estimated regulatory costs” developed by AHCA show a “minimal” fiscal impact but that the costs are “substantial.”
“For example, and without limitation, the technology related development costs associated with including information on facility websites that could instead be included on a site maintained by an agency vendor are well in excess of $1 million,” the challenge said.
The case marks another showdown between hospitals and the administration of Gov. Rick Scott, a former health-care executive.
Following a bruising 2015 legislative session that was forced into overtime after a divisive battle over Medicaid expansion, Scott assembled a blue-ribbon panel to examine the costs of health care at Florida hospitals.
The following session, Scott made health-care “transparency” one of his top priorities with the Legislature. The governor initially wanted to cap what hospitals could charge patients. Hospitals that exceeded those price caps could have been prosecuted by the state attorney general.
Though the Legislature was supportive of “transparency,” it didn’t embrace caps or criminal penalties.
Ultimately, lawmakers passed and Scott signed into law a bill that requires hospitals and ambulatory surgical centers to provide access to searchable information on their websites about “service bundles.” The information would give patients and potential patients access to data about estimated average payments received — excluding Medicare and Medicaid — and estimated payment ranges for each service bundle, by facility, facilities within geographic boundaries, and nationally. The facilities would be required to disclose that the information is an estimate of costs and that actual costs would be based on services actually provided to patients.
Agencies approve rules to carry out the details of state laws.
The hospital association maintains in its challenge to the transparency rules that a lower-cost alternative would be to allow hospitals and ambulatory surgical centers to post price information through a hyperlink that would allow patients and potential patients to connect to a site maintained by the agency.
David Ashburn, outside general counsel for the association, noted in the administrative challenge that the 2016 law allows for hospitals to meet the posting requirements through a hyperlink and that in meetings with the industry over the summer, AHCA staff assured hospitals that would be the case.
Ashburn told The News Service of Florida on Thursday that the industry isn’t opposed to “transparency,” and the challenge addresses “a few very specific terms of the rule to ensure the hospitals will be in compliance.”
by Christine Sexton, The News Service of Florida
Three Injured In Beulah Crash
September 28, 2017
Three people were injured — at least two of them as “trauma alerts” — in a Thursday morning crash in Beulah.
According to the Florida Highway Patrol, 30-year old Jacob L. Pate of Mobile was driving a tractor-trailer rig that crossed over the lane divider as he entered the intersection of Nine Mile Road and Beulah Road. His truck collided with a Ford F150 driven by 55-year old Jimmy D. Marlow of Pensacola.
The tractor-trailer continued where it collided with a Ford F150 lawn service truck driven by 54-year old Roy D. Grissom of Pensacola before jackknifing and hitting a tree.
Grissom and his passenger, 45-year old James Rafferty, were seriously injured. Rafferty was airlifted by LifeFlight helicopter to Baptist Hospital, while Grissom was transported by Escambia County EMS to Sacred Heart Hospital.
Marlow received minor injuries; Pate was not injured.
Pate was cited for failure to maintain a single lane by the FHP.
NorthEscambia.com reader submitted and Kristi Barbour photos, click to enlarge.
