Today's Sports

The Cedar Key School is holding a Cedar Key HOOPla! Boys’ Basketball Fundraiser Friday Oct. 13 at 5 p.m. in the school gym. Admission is $3. Concessions will be available and there will be a drawing to win a cooler. There will be fun halftime challenges, followed by a middle and high school dance. The dance is $5 for admission and will last until 10 p.m.

Pre-registration for basketball camp for grades 5 through 8 will also be held at the event.

Jasmin Jackson penetrated the lane while Hannah Brinkman dropped a trio of 3-pointers in the second half to lift the Cedar Key girls’ basketball team to a convincing 34-23 win over Keystone Heights last Thursday in Trenton.

The meeting was part of a June summer league featuring 12 area schools. CKS concludes its league play Thursday June 29 in Trenton against Branford at 4 p.m.

The games are timed at 20 minutes per half. The clock only stops for timeouts.

Cedar Key School takes its sportsmanship seriously, and it’s been awarded again for its efforts.

The school, which is the smallest public school by enrollment in Florida, received this month the Fred E. Rozelle Sportsmanship Award for Class 1A for the fourth time in six years.

The award is issued by the FHSAA (Florida High School Athletic Association) to schools from each classification “whose total sports program best exemplifies the qualities of sportsmanship as demonstrated by its coaches, players and spectators.”

A pair of area track and field athletes followed up their district championships with wins at the Class 1A, Region 2 meet at Indian Rocks Christian School in Largo last Thursday.

Cedar Key senior Ashlyn Allen had a top throw of 36 feet, ¼ inch to prevail in the girls shot put event, comfortably edging out second place’s Thalia Jackson, a junior from Trenton who posted a 34-7.5.

Allen’s performance was even significantly improved from her district-winning throw of 34-9.5, which tied Jackson’s best at the district meet in Gainesville.