High School Sports

Some football fans call it fumbilitis, and some call it putting the rock on the carpet. In real terms, it is simply a turnover.
Last Friday, both the Williston Red Devils and the Fernandina Beach Pirates started the game unable to hold on to the football.
The Pirates took the opening kick off and managed just three plays before the Red Devil defense came up with a fumble recovery.

Another Williston sports legend has been coaxed off the field and into the ranks of retirement.
Robert Patterson, who spent 32 of his 35-year career at Williston High School, was honored with a party June 9, hosted by Sandra Wise.
Simply known to all Williston High School students, athletes, and friends as “Coach P”, Patterson began his teaching and coaching career at Marianna High School where he spent his first three years before moving to Williston High School.

Every year beginning the first day in May, the Williston Red Devils take to the practice field to begin spring football practice.
This season the Red Devils will be playing in a new classification that was decided following the FHSAA’s failure to allow Williston to join the new Rural Classification.
Six hundred or  fewer students was the cut off for the new Rural League and Williston was slightly over that number.

  On April 7, just one night after the Lady Red Devil softball team gave up six runs to Ft. White on five throwing errors, the team played almost a perfect game at Newberry.

The Lady Devils got on the board in the first inning as lead off batter Crissy Rawls walked and stole second base before scoring on an Angie Wilcox single for a 1-0 lead. 

Wilcox was then picked off at first base on a throw from the Newberry catcher. Kaitlyn Bannon then doubled with two outs, but was left stranded.