Section B
Thursday, October 20, 2005
Lake C(ity, Florida
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Scoreboard 2B
 Outdoors 3B
 Comics 5B


Wide-open offense comes to CHS


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 A big night

 in Fort White
 Although last
 Friday's game
 between Fort
 White High'
 and Madison
 County High was not a play-
 off game, it certainly felt
 like one.
 Fans'streamed into
. Indians Stadium starting at
 5:30 p.m., unheard of for a
 7:30 kickoff. The home-side
 stands were already half-full
 by 6:30, as Fort White fans
 and Lake Citians were on
 hand to cheer for the
 Indians.
 Fort White coach Mike.
 Hunter said the crowd was
 superb both for his Indians
 and for the Cowboy: .
 whose faithful nearly filled
 the away stands.
 In fact, Hunter said the
 Indians took in more
 money at the gate than they
 have for any game in schiul
 history, including their
 matchup against Columbia
 High last year.
 "You couldn't have had a
 better atmosphere for a,
 high-school football game,"
 Hunter said.
 "And that's what it's all
 about. You've got the
 stands packed, you've got,
 people standing all around.,
 And even though we got
 down a little bit, our fans
 stayed and yellki1. Mailisn
 County, their fkrin travel
 well and- sta. i r the
 game."
 For t Whit.- alumni like
 former Indians quarterback
 3Matt N\lah1onv were asI o on
 hand for the game.
 Mahony is now playing
 baseball at Union College in
 Kentucky.
 He was in town for four
 days this past weekend not
 just to see the big game,
 but to hang out with friends
 and family,
 "It's great to see every-
 body again," Mahony said
 by phone on Wednesday.,
 "Everybody's been real
 supportive."
 Mahony just wrapped up
 the fall baseball season in
 which his team scrimmaged
 other teams in the area
 every weekend. Mahiny
 batted second and played.
 second base during the fall.
 He was so iipl)eIrsive
 that at season's end he was
 told that all three coaches
 had his name written in the
 starting lineup for the
 regular season, which.
 starts on Feb. 1.
 This despite the fact
 Mahoniy had a pulled quad
 muscle that hampered him,
 for three weeks.
 As for spending time
 away from home, he said,
 "So far, so good. The
 atmosphere's pretty good.":
 Mahony plans on return-
 ing with fellow Indians alum
 Derek Case, who is current-
 ly attending Harvard
 University, to watch Fort


 The Lady Indians play
the Lady Tigers at 5 p.m.,
with the boys playing each
other at 7 p.m.
 For the Fort White foot-
ball team, the season
comes down to one game
- at Taylor County High
next Friday. The Bulldogs
shocked Dixie Cofinty
High 22-10 last Friday to
even their district record at
S1-1. So the loser of next
week's game will fall to
third place and out of the
playoff race.
Mario Sarmento can be
reached at 754-0420, or at
msarmento@
lakecityreporter cornm.


By TIM KIRBY
tkirby@lakecityreporter.com :.
 Nease High is bringing the
full football. package to
Columbia High. Stadium and it
is tied up with Tim Tebow.
 The teams square off in a
District 5-4A matchup at 7:30
p.m. Friday..
 Columbia is 5-2 overall and
2-0 in district play.
 The Panthers (5-2, 2-0) can
clinch the district champi-
onship with a win and coach
Craig Howard would like for


Nease football to join in the
success enjoyed by the
school's other sports.
 "Nease is a great school.
but we were everybody's
homecoming opponent- the
last few years," Howard said.
 Howard was at Mandarin
High when the Mustangs
were on Columbia's schedule
in the 1990s.
 The Tigers came out on
top, but Howard remembered
the halftime score was 7-7 for
three straight years.
 Howard left to start the


football program at Ed Waters
College, then returned to
high school ball at Nease in.
2003.
 The Panthers had not been
to the playoffs since a three-
year run in 1992-94 under
coach Chuck Walker.
Howard, who is 21-9 at Nease,
took the Panthers to the play-
offs last year as district run-
ner-up and they advanced to
the third round.
 This year, Nease has dis-
 CHS continued on page 4B


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Members of the 2005 Columbia High boys swim team are (front row, from left)
Eli Tuggle, Devin Duckwiler, Pete King, Miles Kirby, Brad Rigdon, Jonathan
Harley and Ben Rigdon. (Back row, from left) are head coach Drew Sloan, Jade
irinial, ,Cameron.Tolarylan Alvarado, Dehne SiLubei risen, Bladhe Dekle, Deiek l
H. de and assistant"coach Randall Garbutt.


 JOSEPH DeANGELIS/Lake City Reporter
Columbia High defenders swarm a Middleburg High runner
during the Tigers' 35-12 win on Sept. 30.


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Members of the 2005 Columbia High girls swim team are (front row, from
left) Elizabeth Jones, Ashley Fortier, Amber. Mansmann, Astin Sibbernsen
and Stephanie Mathis. (Second row, from left) are assistant coach Randall
Gartutt, head coach Drew, Sloan, Nicole Schadlbauer, Brittany McCraw,
Jeniffer Thomas, Chelsea Collins, Heather Smith, Mariee Sherrd arid -
assistant coach Mar)> Iay vMathis. (Back row, from left are Amy- Ropand,
Danielle Patterson, Ashley Hickman, Michele 'Alison and Lindsay Beach.


Columbia High swim team competes in district tournament Friday


By TIM KIRBY
tkirby@lakecityreporter.comt
 Columbia High's swim team is headed
to the district tournament and this time
the Tigers expect to make a day out of it.
 The District 2-2A swim meet is
Friday at Trousdale Aquatic Complex
in Tallahassee. The preliminaries
begin at 9 a.m., with the finals and con-
solation finals at 5 p.m.
 The top eight swimmers in each
event qualify for the finals, while Nos.
9-16 swim in the consolation events.
 "In the past we would swim early
and be done for the day," coach Drew


 Sloan said. "Now, pretty much our
 whole team will swim at night. We will
 have a lot of kids in the finals, but the
. majority will be in the.consolation."
 Sloan said team points toward the
 district championship will only be
 awarded in the finals, .which is
 different from past years.
 Another change is in the qualifying
 for region: The winner of each event
 gets an automatic berth, but the
 remaining 15 qualifiers will be those
 who post the best times from all of the
 35 teams in Region 1.
 'This year we have 29 swimmers and
 the majority of them are on Columbia


Swim Team and swim year-round,"
Sloan'said. '"That is the main reason we
have more of a shot this year.
"Last year, our boys were fourth
and we didn't lose anybody. The girls
were sixth and we gained eight girls."
 Columbia's Blake Dekle qualified
for region last year in the 100 Butterfly
and Heather Smith qualified in the
100 Breaststroke. Both return.
 Sloan also expects Derek Hyde,
Marilee Sherrod, Eli. Tuggle and
Michele Allison to qualify in individual
events and Amber Mansmann,
Lindsay Beach and Dehne Sibbernsen
to join them on relay teams.


 Sherrod has broken CHS records in
the 50 Freestyle, 100 Freestyle and
100 Backstroke. Smith broke the
school record in the 100 Breaststroke.
 Smith, Sherrod, Allison and Beach
broke. the school record in the 200
Medley Relay; Smith, Sherrod, Allison
and Mansmann broke records in the
200 Freestyle and 400 Freestyle relays.
 Other schools in Columbia's district
are Chiles, Ed White, Fleming Island,
Forrest, Leon, Lincoln, Middleburg,
Ridgeview and Lee.
 "In the past, we have only been able' to
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