High School Football Finals
September 19, 2015
Here are high school football final scores from around the area tonight:
FLORIDA
- Chipley 30, Northview 14 [Read more, photos...]
- Tate 24 PHS 16 [Read more, photos...]
- West Gadsden 30, Jay 6
- Pace 24, Washington 7
- Jesuit (LA) 28, Escambia 17
- Pine Forest 56, Gulf Breeze 17
- Milton 42, Catholic 21
- Mosley 31, West Florida 24
- Navarre 16, Choctaw 14
- Blountstown 34, South Walton 21
- Walton 65, Baker 48
ALABAMA
- Flomaton 34, Southern Choctaw 8
- Jackson 49, Escambia County 6
- T.R. Miller 30, Hillcrest 20
- UMS Wright 45, W.S. Neal 21
- Escambia Academy 35, Crenshaw Christian 13
Tate Beats PHS (With Photo Gallery)
September 19, 2015
Pensacola High was one of just two teams to top the Tate Aggies last season, but the Aggies had different plans this year. Tate beat Pensacola High 24-16 for a big homecoming win at Pete Gindl Stadium in Cantonment.
Tate scored in the first half with a 52-yard touchdown run from Alondo Thompkins, a 28-yard run from Sawyer Smith, and a 36-yard field goal from Evan Legassey. Thompkins added a 49-yard touchdown run in the fourth.
The Aggies (3-0) will host Niceville next Friday night at 7:30.
NorthEscambia.com photos by Keith Garrison, click to enlarge.
Chipley Downs Northview 30-14 (With Photo Gallery)
September 19, 2015
The Chipley Tigers earned a 30-14 win over the Northview Chiefs Friday night in Chipley. The Tigers ran up 16 unanswered points in last five minutes of the game to seal the win.
Chipley was first on the board on a short run with 10:07 to go int he second quarter. Northview scored with 8:58 to go in the half on a Luke Ward touchdown. With a good extra point, the Chiefs took a 7-6 lead. With 5:49 remaining in the second, the Tigers made it 14-7 with a 40-yard touchdown pass.
Northview tied it up 14-14 with a Gavin Grant touchdown in the last seconds of the third quarter, before Chipley went on their 16 point scoring run in the fourth.
The Northview Chiefs will play host to Vancleave, MS, next Friday night, 7:00, at Tommy Weaver Memorial Stadium in Bratt.
NorthEscambia.com photos by Gary Amerson, click to enlarge.
Northview Sets Homecoming Parade; Entries Now Accepted
September 18, 2015
The annual Northview High School Homecoming Parade has been set for Friday, October 9.
The parade will line up at noon and travel from Bratt Elementary School to Northview High. Entries are being accepted now; there is no cost to enter. For a printable entry form, click here. Entries are due by October 2.
Contact Perry Byars at (850) 327-6681 ext. 248 for more information.
The Northview Chief’s homecoming game will kickoff at 7 p.m. on October 9 against Liberty County.
Pictured: A float in the 2014 Northview High Homecoming Parade in Bratt. NorthEscambia.com file photo, click to enlarge.
Ernest Ward Middle Beats T.R. Miller (With Photo Gallery)
September 18, 2015
Ernest Ward Middle School beat T.R. Miller of Brewton 18-7 in middle school football Thursday night in Walnut Hill.
Ernest Ward will be on the road against Jay on Thursday, September 24 at 6 p.m.
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Northview Volleyball Games Rescheduled
September 17, 2015
Thursday night’s Northview High School volleyball games against Laurel Hill have been canceled. The games have been rescheduled for Monday, September 28 at Northview. The junior varsity will play at 4:30, followed by the varsity at 5:30.
Central Tops Northview; Washington Over Tate
September 16, 2015
Central defeated Northview 3-0 in varsity action Tuesday at Central, 25-8, 25-22, 25-19. Junior varsity results were not available. Northview will host Laurel Hill High School on Thursday. For more photos, click here.
Washington High School defeated Tate 3,0 Tuesday at Tate, 25-23, 25-23, 25-17. Tate will travel to West Florida School on Wednesday.
Pictured: Northview at Central. NorthEscambia.com photos by Gary Amerson, click to enlarge.
UWF Holds First Ever Football Scrimmage
September 13, 2015
Chalk up another ‘First’ for the University of West Florida and it’s football program
Head coach Pete Shinnick put his team through a 90-minute scrimmage at University Park Field Saturday morning, marking the first-ever such event in team history.
Crowd estimates of more than 750 were reported with a large number of student groups and Argonaut fans and boosters were in attendance.
The Argonauts currently have 108 student-athletes on the roster for the 2015-16 academic year.
UWF will hold four more scrimmages this season, with three on campus and one at Pensacola Bayfront Stadium in downtown Pensacola on October 17. The remaining scrimmage dates are October 24 (during UWF Homecoming Week) and November 7. Each scrimmage will begin at 11 a.m.
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Blue Wahoos Out Of Playoffs As Historic Season Ends
September 13, 2015
With one swing, Pensacola 
Blue Wahoos first baseman Marquez Smith cleared up his club’s playoff blues and cleared the bases with a grand slam that rocketed over the left field fence.
In the snap of a finger, Pensacola had five runs in the seventh inning and trailed the Biloxi Shuckers, 7-5, Saturday at Pensacola Bayfront Stadium.
Smith’s stroke also ended a Pensacola slump that saw them score just two runs on nine hits through 24 innings and hit .115 (9-78) against one of the best starting rotation in the Southern League, which boasted a 3.17 ERA.
However, the comeback fell short as the Shuckers held on for a 7-5 victory over Pensacola in front of 4,104 fans Saturday. They celebrated with champagne in the dugout as the team’s fireworks show fired up and Biloxi fans chanted “Shuckers!”
Pensacola manager Pat Kelly said Biloxi easily has five position players that are future Major Leaguers, not to mention its stellar pitching rotation.
“That’s a heck of a club,” Kelly said. “They are very talented. Not only can they hit, they got speed and they got defense.”
Smith said he enjoyed playing for the Blue Wahoos all season. He finished the season with nine home runs and 50 RBIs.
“Biloxi is obviously a good team and has a really good staff,” Smith said. “We gave ourselves a chance in the end, we just fell a little short. (Our comeback) says a lot about our guys. That’s a good group of guys in there who are always going to battle.”
It was the first postseason appearance for both franchises. The Blue Wahoos ended the longest drought of missing the playoffs by a Southern League Major League affiliate. The Cincinnati Reds last Double-A team to make the playoffs was Chattanooga in 2006.
The Blue Wahoos, which won a half for the first time since its inaugural season in 2012, came into Saturday’s best-of-five series in a must-win situation after dropping the first two playoff games to the Biloxi Shuckers at MGM Park. But Pensacola quickly fell behind, 7-0.
Biloxi right-hander Tyler Wagner gave up three runs in 6.2 innings and struck out six batters. Meanwhile, the Shuckers were led by a two-run bomb by shortstop Orlando Arcia in a five-run fourth inning.
Pensacola, which finished its season 6-17 against Biloxi, was simply overmatched by the Shuckers, who boasted 11 of the Milwaukee Brewers top 30 prospects, including four of the top 10.
Arcia certainly played against Pensacola like the Brewers top prospect. He went 4-5 with a homer, three doubles and two runs batted in Saturday and for the series batted .615 (8-13) with two home runs, six RBIs, five runs and a triple.
Jesse Winker, who went 1-3 with a single and run, is the Cincinnati Reds top prospect. He was asked about his future and said jokingly he was going home to watch the Buffalo Bills play.
“I have no idea what’s in store for my future,” he said. “I’m going to work hard and just try to get better. Everyone in there (the clubhouse) has a bright future ahead of them.”
Tim Adleman looked to turn around Pensacola’s fortunes. But the tall righty, who entered the game with the third best ERA in the Southern League at 2.64, gave up six runs in his third start in a row, lasting just 3.2 innings.
Adleman allowed 18 runs, 17 earned in 13.1 innings on 22 hits in his last three starts. That’s a very un-Adleman like 11.77 ERA for the Southern League All-Star.
Winker, who played the entire season for the Blue Wahoos, said he enjoyed his second season with the team.
“We went from last place to first place,” said Winker, who led the team in home runs (13), RBIs (55) and batting average (.280). “We’re all proud of that.”
Kelly, who was managing the Blue Wahoos for the first time this year, also said the season was “very fulfilling for me.” He said he was proud of how the team battled in every game all year long.
“You see our turnaround and we basically did it with the same guys,” said Kelly, who plans to manage in the Puerto Rican league this winter. “It’s nice to see them have success and be rewarded for all the hard work they put in.”
1A Northview Chiefs Fall To 6A Gulf Breeze Dolphins (With Photo Gallery)
September 12, 2015
The 1A Northview Chiefs took on their second 6A team of the season Friday night, losing to the Gulf Breeze Dolphins 56-24 in Bratt.
The Dolphins took an early 7-0 lead on their opening drive, but the Chiefs made it 7-6 with a 41-yard interception return from Toney Harrison. Luke Ward then returned a Gulf Breeze punt 58 yards to put the Chiefs up 12-7.
In the second, the Chiefs also scored on an 18-yard pass from senior quarterback Gavin Grant to Neikel Robinson. And Grant also tossed a 3-yard pass in the fourth to Jacob Dunsford.
“There were a lot of things I didn’t like tonight,” Northview Head Coach Sid Wheatley said after loss. “We didn’t tackle well; we were undisciplined….We had so many mistakes; it was not a good showing from the defense.”
“We hit a couple of a plays offensively, then we turned the ball over,” he said. “You can’t turn the ball over in games like this….this was not us tonight.”
Northview hits the road next Friday night to take on Chipley. In the meantime, Wheatley said there’s a lot of work ahead next week for the Chiefs.
“We are going to work them over and over on fundamentals to make sure that we are sound,” he said. “Traditionally (Chipley) is a strong football team, and that’s a hard place to go in and win. So I would expect us to be really challenged. Coming off of this loss, we’ve go to regroup in a hurry to get ready for them.”
For more photos, click here. (Cheerleader, dance and band photos will be published on a future date).
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