Today's Sports

The Williston Middle School baseball team smothered Lake Butler, 17-7, in a mercy-rule five-inning game Monday.

Max White and Bradley Jones each had a single and a triple, Justin Baker had two singles, and Trent Johnson and Justin Forsyth each had a single.

Austin Etheridge pitched into the fourth inning and struck out six, while reliever Max White struck out four.

The team travels to Bell today (Thursday) and visits Chiefland Friday, then returns home Monday to face Fort White, while entertaining Chiefland Tuesday.

Bronson High's three-month long search for a new head football coach is over.

Enter Al Cooksey, a 60-year-old who has coached the sport many years in parts north of Levy.

Most recently, Cooksey coached at tiny Hilliard High north of Jacksonville. He was there one year at the Class 1A school, finishing 2-8 with a squad that started eight sophomores.

"It was a unique situation," said Cooksey, who will teach physical education at BHS. "I replaced a coach who was ill, but he got better and wanted his job back. He had been there something like 27 years. I stepped aside."

On April 12, the International Association of Firefighters Local 4069 will host a charity golf tournament to benefit the Muscular Dystrophy Association at Williston Highlands Golf and Country Club.

Registration begins at 7:30 a.m. and tee off is by 8:30. Continental breakfast and barbecued lunch will be provided.

There will be prizes for first, second and last place which include cash and other items. Many prizes will be raffled off. There will also be hole prizes including longest drive, longest putt, closest to pin and hole-in-one.

JACKSONVILLE -- For the Bronson Eagles, their 64-32 regional quarterfinal loss to Arlington Country Day was like dj vu all over again, except this year it came one round earlier, due to a shakeup in the regions by FHSAA.

ACD are the three-time defending state champions in 2A, and last year when the Eagles played them in the Sweet 16, the Apaches had four senior McDonald's All-American nominees, including two players bound for University of Kentucky and Webber International University.