Today's Sports

When you're a leading scorer and rebounder on your high school's girls basketball team, and you're only two days away from a key regional game, how do you spend your time?

If you're Margaret "Nana" Brown of Williston, you help your team to a 5-2 season-opening softball win.

The senior all-state centerfielder drove in four runs with a single and an inside-the-park home run, and made a catch in deep left-center to help put down a Keystone Heights rally in the sixth inning.

The Bronson Grand Slam Booster Club will be hosting a baseball clinic and an alumni baseball game on Feb. 16 after being postponed on Jan. 19 due to weather. The game will be played at the high school field starting at 5 p.m.

Prior to the game, a baseball clinic will be conducted by Mike Pogue, head baseball coach. The clinic will be from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. A registration fee of $20 will be required for the clinic and lunch will be provided for participants.

Registration fee for the alumni game is $25.

The Williston girls tuned up for the district basketball tournament last weekend with a Senior Night victory over Dunnellon, 65-32.

The team finished with a 17-8 record, 8-2 in the district, and will play Friday at 6 p.m. at Newberry in the district semifinals. The championship game is Saturday night.

Senior Margaret Brown had a powerful double-double, scoring 19 points and grabbing 16 rebounds to control the frontcourt game for the Devils.

Kaetta Jackson and Kim Dobbins each had 10 points.

The Williston boys basketball team clinched the second seed in the district tournament with a 46-42 win over Dixie County Thursday night.

That means a first-round bye in the tournament, which will be held at Williston.

The Red Devils won a pair of district contests in the past week against two teams called Indians, knocking off a stubborn Chiefland team, 66-37 last Friday, then defeating a depleted Fort White squad, 53-31, Tuesday at home.

A second seed in a six-team tournament means a first-round bye.