Sideline

By BRANT JAMES and PETE YOUNG

© St. Petersburg Times, published February 28, 2001

Soccer

More Power to you

The best chance to see Springstead alumna Jenny O'Sullivan play in person this season in the Women's United Soccer Association will be in her first game, when the New York Power plays at Atlanta on April 21. Atlanta is the closest she'll come to home because there is no franchise in Florida.

That would have been different had the Carolina franchise not been moved from Tampa/Orlando early in the league's creation.

The April 21st game will also be televised on TNT, the first of six televised Power games. Other New York telecasts include: at Boston, 6 p.m., June 3 on CNNSI; vs. Bay Area, 6 p.m., June 10 on CNNSI; vs. Philadelphia, 6 p.m., June 17 on CNNSI; at Bay Area, 6 p.m. July 8 on CNNSI; at Washington, noon, Aug. 11 on TNT.

Softball

Nice start, kid

Apparently this college thing isn't that hard.

Former Central High standout Jennifer Pape threw a no-hitter and hit two home runs as Rollins College whipped Warner Southern 8-0 on Feb. 22.

Pape drove in four runs in a doubleheader sweep.

Through eight innings in two appearances, Pape is 2-0 and has allowed one hit.

She was 8-for-16 in six games as a hitter entering another doubleheader against Warner Southern on Tuesday.

Pape was an All-Hernando/Citrus first-team pitcher after finishing 13-5 with a 0.61 earned-run average and 234 strikeouts last spring.

Her Rollins teammate and twin sister, Jamie, is 4-for-11 after missing two games with a shoulder injury.

Tennis

Leopards boys win

Hernando High got singles wins from Andrew Sufficool, Eric Frechette and Brent Lowman on Thursday to defeat Crystal River, 5-2.

No. 1 Sufficool defeated John Wang, 6-1, 6-2; No. 2 Frechette downed Bret Bienkowski, 7-5, 6-2; and No. 5 Lowman trumped Mike Domingo, 6-1, 6-2.

The Leopards' top doubles team of Sufficool-Frechette beat Wang-Chris Grillo and their No. 2 of Joshua Vasquez-Drew Taylor defeated Domingo-Tony Domingo.

Outdoors

Up the creek

Jim Flynn won the seventh annual McFarlane's Single Gate Slalom Canoe and Kayak Race on Feb. 11 at Hernando Beach Park's Jenkins Creek.

Stu Walasek was second.

The next local USA Canoe/Kayak-sanctioned event will be 4 to 7 p.m. on March 10 at the Hernando County YMCA.

Anyone can participate.

Football

Combined effort

Tampa Bay Storm players John Kaleo and Mike Black will be instructors at a combination football camp/scouting combine March 18 at Bicentennial Park in Tampa.

Middle school players will participate in an instructional camp, and high school players will participate in a scouting combine. All participants must register. The $55 fee includes lunch and a T-shirt.

For information contact Jim Terry at (727) 771-7101.

Track

Pole vault clinic

A pole vault clinic will be held at 8 a.m. on March 10 at Pasco High. The all-day clinic will be directed by new University of Alabama pole vault coach Brian Woods. The clinic will feature the latest techniques and will be structured around the Russian continuous chain model for the pole vault.

The clinic will be limited to the first 20 vaulters.

Registration will begin at 8, with basic drill progressions beginning at 9. After a noon lunch break, four hours of instruction will resume at 1 p.m.

Cost is $50 and includes lunch.

Please e-mail BPW003@aol.com for more information.

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