For the fourth year in a row Thursday night, the Minneota Vikings beat the Southwest Minnesota Christian Eagles in a Section 3A girls basketball championship game, each time denying the Edgerton school a state tournament berth.

Southwest Christian never expected to be playing for a Section 5AA championship. A No. 10 seed just doesn't make the finals every day. But as the playoff bracket progressed, they believed they could.

While Gulf Coast, Immokalee, Palmetto Ridge, Cape Coral and Bonita Springs move up in classification Island Coast will drop down.

The Section 5AA basketball playoffs begin on Tuesday, March 16, but the intensity that comes with the season being on the line was out in full force Saturday between Holy

Southwest Florida Christian Academy basketball player Julio Lopez garnered ... Other nominees were North Fort Myers soccer player Sophia Kerns, South Fort Myers baseball player Oscar Ramon ...

The top teams in The News-Press and Naples Daily News girls basketball poll are head and shoulders above the rest of the competition in Southwest ... the rest of the high school basketball regular ...

The Eagles showed in their three-game sweep of the Springfield R-12 Winter Classic that they're the team to beat in southwest ... down as perhaps the best high school basketball player to come ...

Every week, a list of the area’ top high school performers will be published ... Jai’son Williams, Living Water Christian: The sophomore collected 25 points, five rebounds and five steals ...

Sophomore Mya Babbitt scored a school-record ... with 23 points. Christian's Gavin McGerr hit a trio of three-pointers in a 16-point performance. Millard South 65, Lincoln High 44: The Links ...

Friday's blizzard conditions in the eastern part of the state led to a bevy of postponements and cancellations in high school ... Christian and Tri County will follow. * Fremont and Lincoln ...