Preps

Pinellas: News and notes

By BOB PUTNAM and BRANDON WRIGHT, Times Staff Writers
Published October 30, 2007

On the Web: football rankings

Largo (No. 3) and Countryside (No. 9) are the highest-ranked county teams in the Times' Top 50. Find out where your team ranks at highschool.tampabay.com.

Golden Eagle settles on UT

Indian Rocks Christian senior Brianne Yeates can't be positive how far the Eagles will go in the playoffs, but she does know one thing for sure: where she'll be playing volleyball next season.

Yeates, a Times' first-team all-county selection as a sophomore, committed to the University of Tampa.

"It's such a relief," Yeates said. "For so long I didn't know where I would be going next year, but now it's set and I'm so excited."

Yeates was leaning toward Eckerd before taking an official visit to UT two weeks ago.

"Once I saw the campus and the dedication they have to the program, I knew it was right," Yeates said.

The Spartans are ranked No.1 in the Division II national poll. IRC opens the playoffs tonight at 7 against Fort Meade.

Shorecrest pulls off big win

The Chargers used their running game to grind out a 27-20 victory over Fort Myers Gateway Charter last week.

Hunter Tremaine had two touchdown runs and scored on a two-point conversion.

Jack Schroeder and Toms Bernhards also scored on short runs.

Shorecrest (5-3) sealed the game with a drive that took up the final 6 minutes of regulation.

Cross country honor roll

Boys

Cathey (CC) 15:53.28; Homme (Sem) 16:04; Reynolds (SP) 16:33; Ramos (Lar) 16:42; Christianson (Cs) 16:43; Adkins (Ne) 16:46;; Crawford (Sem) 16:52; McGrath (Lar) 17:11; Johnson (IRC) 17:29; Jones (CC) 17:32.67.

Girls

Cosgrove (TS) 18:44; McMeekin (EL) 18:53; Homme (Sem) 18:56; Greenleaf (Ns) 19:37; Allen (BC) 19:37; Palm (Kes) 19:41; Evans (Sc) 19:56.93; Snyder (Ne) 19:57; Jones (Sem) 20:00; Stills (Clw) 20:15.

Top runners from last week

Boys

Christian Homme, Seminole: The Warhawks' No. 1 runner won the Pinellas County Athletic Conference title with a season-best 16 minutes, 4 seconds.

Wes Reynolds, St. Petersburg: He stayed on the heels of Homme, finishing as the PCAC runnerup.

Josh Johnson, Indian Rocks Christian: With Calvary Christian's Joe Cathey nursing an ankle injury, Johnson took advantage, winning the Bay Conference title.

Girls

Kailand Cosgrove, Tarpon Springs: The triathlete is starting to round into form with the PCAC title.

Katherine McMeekin, East Lake: She missed out on a PCAC title by 9 seconds to Cosgrove.

Kaitlin Greenleaf, Northside Christian: She won the Bay Conference title by 4 seconds over Keswick Christian's Hannah Palm.

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