Today's Sports

There is a certain perfect beauty to high school spring football.
In the spring, the team is undefeated and everyone on the team is a football hero.
Enthusiasm and positive energy runs amok.
It is spring after all.
School is almost over and it is hot out there.
The 2012 Wildwood High football team is a place of opportunity.
Gone is the 6-5 team of 2011.
The team loses 14 seniors from that group and that means lots of possible starting jobs.

Brian Allen was smiling Friday.
He had a personal best of 345 pounds in the bench press and did it at the Class 1A State Weightlifting Meet at the Kissimmee Center.
He is headed for Duluth, Minnesota to play football at College of St. Scholastica next fall.
But the South Sumter High senior heavyweight lifter made himself a delightful memory at his last high school lifting meet.
“I came in, hoping to do 335 pounds,” Allen said. “The coach was telling me to do what I wanted. I decided to go with 345 and I got it.

Luis Jeronimo, Luis Romero and Keanu Neal may or may not be heading to the Class 1A Boys Weightlifting State Meet April 20 in Kissimmee.
All three took second places in their respective weight classes. The South Sumter High athletes are temporarily on hold. The top people in each class qualify for state. The others are in a pool of lifters who may or may not move on to Kissimmee.
They competed in the Class 1A state qualifier Wednesday, April 4 at South Sumter High School.

The first Sumter County Sheriff’s Office Torch Run to raise funds for Special Olympics was held at the Village Polo Field on Sunday, April 15, at 1:30 p.m. in front of about 500 polo spectators. 
Three sheriff cars escorted the 50-seater bus full of Special Olympics athletes and volunteers, all of whom were wearing the special Torch Run T-shirts.  The sheriff cars stopped traffic at a traffic signal on the way to the polo field.  The athletes laughed, cheered, and waved at the cars.   Large Torch Run banners were on both sides on the bus