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Yahoo
30-05-2025
- General
- Yahoo
Badin set to unveil new sports complex in June
May 15—Badin High School has scheduled a grand opening ceremony for its new on-campus stadium in Hamilton. The school will unveil the Matandy SportsPlex at the high school in an event scheduled for 6-9 p.m. June 6. Advertisement A blessing and ribbon cutting is schedule for 6:30-7 with attendees able to mingle at a stadium open house from 7-9. Opening in time for the school's 60th year in operation, the facility cost $15 million. It will host its first games Aug. 15 with a soccer doubleheader. The Badin girls will play Cincinnati Summit Country Day at 5 p.m. followed by the Badin boys taking on Cincinnati Elder. The first football game at Terry Malone Field in Lanni Family Stadium will see the Rams host Edgewood at 7 p.m. on Sept. 5 as part of Week 3 action.
Miami Herald
10-04-2025
- Sport
- Miami Herald
Southridge's Doctor, Country Day's Swaby are Dade Girls' Basketball Coaches of the Year
Miami Country Day's Ochiel Swaby officially ran out of fingers with which to wear the state championship rings he's won while coaching the Spartans. Swaby led Country Day to its 10th state championship in the past 12 seasons as one of the most impressive title runs in Miami-Dade County history continued. At Southridge, Stephasia Doctor guided her team to the Class 6A state final with fewer players on their roster than Country Day's total of state title rings. As such, Swaby and Doctor are the Miami Herald's Miami-Dade County Girls' Basketball Coaches of the Year. Swaby once again earns this honor for Classes 4A-1A in a season in which Country Day was pushed to the limit seemingly even more than usual. Country Day survived the Class 2A state semifinals with a two-point victory over Fort Myers Evangelical Christian and then outlasted Jacksonville Providence 47-37 in the finals for the two of their closest victories ever at the state final four. The result was their third consecutive state championship. 'I love it, I love it, I love it,' Miami Country Day coach Ochiel Swaby said after the state final. 'The way we played in the semis, we didn't look good. We had no real momentum and no confidence to carry us through the game. But what I saw (Saturday) from the kids was them go on the hunt for once.' Southridge had no choice but to be in 'hunter' mode throughout most of the 2024-25 season. With a roster of only seven players, affectionately dubbed 'The Magnificent Seven' by their fans, Southridge made an improbable run to the state finals, which included victories on the road against four-time defending state champion St. Thomas Aquinas and Broward County powerhouse Nova. Doctor was at the forefront of a collective coaching effort which propelled Southridge to its first appearance at the state final four since 1987 and second in program history. Southridge nearly secured its first state title before falling in the final, 43-41, to Valrico Bloomingdale. 'These girls are very deserving and I'm very, very proud of them,' Doctor said after the state final. 'We went through a lot this season and they got here. These girls have bright futures ahead of them and I'm so proud of them.'
Yahoo
12-03-2025
- Politics
- Yahoo
Louisiana attorney general to file motion on sentencing in Colbert case
NEW ORLEANS (WGNO) — Louisiana Attorney General Liz Murrill is taking over one of the court cases against Danette Colbert. She's the woman arrested in connection with the death of a Kansas City reporter who was in town to cover the Super Bowl. The case involves one of Colbert's unrelated previous convictions for multiple crimes in Orleans Parish. JPSO investigates Grand Isle apparent murder-suicide The judge at the time sentenced Colbert to probation when she could have received 10 years in prison. In a statement on Tuesday, however, Murrill says she plans to file a motion to correct that sentence, saying Colbert was not eligible to receive probation. Murrill issued the following statement on Tuesday: After consultation with Orleans Parish District Attorney Jason Williams, my office will be handling the case going forward due to the cross jurisdictional conduct. A motion to correct an illegal sentence can be filed at any time. The District Attorney's Office has already filed a revocation on the defendant's probation, and our position is the original sentence was not eligible for probation. The habitual offender notice would attach to resentencing. As this matter is still an open investigation, we have no further comment. Attorney General Liz Murrill In the meantime, Kenner police say Colbert was the last person seen with the reporter, Adan Manzano, before he was found dead in his Kenner hotel room. Colbert allegedly stole Manzano's credit cards. She's being held in the Jefferson Parish jail without House Democrats press Senate colleagues to sink GOP spending bill Breezy and warm Wednesday for the New Orleans area McAllister's layup helps Country Day to Division III Select semi-final win over Dunham Mexico preparing to seal portion of illegal border tunnel near Rio Grande Pop-up comedy club coming to Shreveport Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
Miami Herald
27-02-2025
- Sport
- Miami Herald
Miami Country Day girls' basketball survives rare close call at state final four
Miami Country Day's girls' basketball team has spent over a decade annually coming to Lakeland and often decimating the competition at the state final four. That didn't happen on Thursday afternoon. The Spartans found themselves in a down-to-the-wire battle for a change as they squared off with Fort Myers Evangelical Christian in a Class 2A state semifinal at the RP Funding Center. While the struggle was something rare for Miami Country Day, its resilience wasn't. And it's why the result remained a familiar one for the Spartans. After falling behind by as many as 12 in the first quarter, Miami Country Day clawed its way back thanks to its signature brand of aggressive defense and squeaked past Evangelical Christian, 37-35, to clinch a return trip to the state finals. Country Day's second-half turnaround secured it the opportunity to chase its 10th state championship in the past 12 seasons on Saturday when it faces Jacksonville Providence (24-6) in the Class 2A final at 1 p.m. The Spartans have defeated Providence three times in Lakeland - in the 2017 state final and each of the past two seasons in the semifinal round. 'We got off to a rough start. We weren't hitting our shots and weren't playing our defense,' said Spartans guard Kamie Ellis, who led Country Day with 14 points and four steals. 'But we've been through a lot of situations with our tough schedule and been through games like this and fought back. We don't stop and we have good leaders. We just came out flat. Offensively, we couldn't get a flow, but we said we weren't going home today.' Ellis' three-pointer with 50.7 seconds remaining put Miami Country Day ahead 35-33. Some tough defense in the paint kept Evangelical Christian's Nalah Smith from converting a layup and Areille Marc from making a put back attempt with 31 seconds left. Spartans sophomore guard Kori Edge, who finished with seven points, six assists and four steals, proceeded to make a pair of free throws for Country Day with 18.3 seconds left. The Sentinels' Kellisia Grant drew a foul with 5.8 seconds remaining and hit both free throws to cut the Spartans' lead to two. But Country Day played keep away long enough until Arianna Robinson went to the foul line at the other end with 1.1 seconds left. She missed both free throws, but Evangelical Christian was unable to do anything with the ball after rebounding the second miss to even attempt a game-winning shot. 'It just took our energy,' Edge said. 'We got down in the first quarter and got discouraged so we talked at halftime and it was really about bringing the energy and playing the way we normally play.' Miami Country Day (19-11) won by its narrowest margin ever at the state final four and it was only the second triumph in 19 victories at state since 2013 decided by single digits. Spartans coach Ochiel Swaby, who has led the Spartans to all nine of their state titles, said the poor offensive performance is nothing new for his team this season. 'Today's game was a microcosm of our season,' Swaby said. 'We don't have enough of an offensive identity. We've had some halves and quarters like the first half today. Nothing that happened today was out of character. We've had trouble scoring the basketball at times all season, but we just had to speed up the game on defense and that's what helped us.' The Spartans made only 1 of their first 11 shots and shot a dismal 5 of 29 from the field in the first half and trailed 19-12 at halftime. But Miami Country Day's defensive efforts held the Sentinels (22-8), who also won a state title last season, to only 6 of 27 shooting in the first half to keep the game close. The shots started coming when Edge swished a three-pointer and Miami Country Day sped up the tempo with full court pressure. It sparked a 13-0 Country Day run and gave the Spartans their first lead with 6:16 left in the third quarter on an Ellis three-pointer. 'We started on the wrong foot, but we made sure in the second half we didn't fall into a deeper hole we couldn't climb out of,' said Country Day sophomore guard Jalynn Belton, who has 17 offers from Power conference schools and over 20 from Division-I programs. 'We tried to encourage our younger players. I trusted we'd make the shots.'
Miami Herald
27-02-2025
- Sport
- Miami Herald
South Florida HEAT's first trip to girls' soccer state semifinals ends with lopsided loss
After years of success, only to be turned away many times in the regional finals, the South Florida HEAT girls soccer team finally made it to the state final four. But their first state 'experience' turned out to be a quick one. The HEAT, (which stands for Home Education Athletic Teams) a collection of home-schooled students who have no school or home field, were faced with the gigantic task of taking on Orange Park St. Johns Country Day - a 14-time state champion. The result was predictable. Country Day, which won 11 straight state titles from 2012-22, scored just 47 seconds into the game and never slowed down, mowing down the HEAT 6-0 in a Class 1A state semifinal on Wednesday night at Spec Martin Stadium. The Spartans, 19-3-1, advance to Saturday's 1A championship game where they will take on Hobe Sound Pine School at 1 p.m. and look to tie St. Thomas Aquinas for the most titles in the state with 15. They were tied for second last week when Plantation American Heritage won No. 14. 'We hung in there for a little while but I guess eventually the dam broke,' HEAT coach Bob Bemis said. 'But the girls never gave up, even right to the very end and I can't be more proud of them for that. All heart. What will they remember from tonight? They'll remember the experience, they'll remember the loss, but they'll also know that they left everything out here. The victory is in the effort and that's what they'll take from tonight.' Bemis could only watch helplessly as his outgunned players did everything they could to hang in there in the first half. Even after Calli Berang popped that early first minute goal in off a perfectly placed free kick from 20 yards out on the left side, HEAT players didn't flinch. The game was still a one goal game at the first half water break but then Country Day struck quickly. First came a foul by HEAT player Hannah Brankamp in the penalty box giving Cece Nowicki a penalty kick which she converted and just 60 seconds later, Reygan Ropero scored off an assist from Madisyn Bowman to make it 3-0 at the half. The Spartans then came out in the second half and slam dunked things away by scoring three goals in a five-minute span to make it 6-0 with 28 minutes left and that was that. 'We obviously knew what we had in front of us going into tonight,' said HEAT senior captain Eden Greenfield, who led her team this season with 52 goals. 'I'll admit we were pretty nervous because we had heard so much about them and everything they had accomplished. Honestly, for what our expectations were, I actually think we played better than we thought we would. Even if the score was 6-0, I'm proud of my team and really glad that we got up here and got to play here. It's always been a dream for me to play at state and that was realized tonight.' The game also marked the end of a two-decade career for Bemis as the head coach and athletic director of the program as he announced that he was stepping down. He and his wife Gina started the ministry in 2004 and built it to the point where they once had a total of 11 athletic teams going at one time including football. 'A great run here but time to make room for some younger blood,' quipped Bemis with a wink. 'Someone a little younger, a little more into social media because athletics and athletes are changing in general. We're proud of what we built here and want to keep the success going.'
