BRIGHTON — The Chairman’s Co-ed 4-on-4 Volleyball Tournament attracted about 20 teams to the Brighton Recreation gymnasium Nov. 16. The floor was divided into two courts so games could take place simultaneously. The youth portion, which had about 16 teams, was held in the afternoon followed by the adults in

Big Cypress team captures championship BIG CYPRESS — Seniors from Big Cypress, Brighton and Hollywood sparred on the tarmac at the Big Cypress aviation hanger Dec. 7 for the 13th annual Trike Fest. The good-natured competition was fierce as seniors vied for position in the drag race, relay race, cone weave,

MOORE HAVEN — Most high school-aged kids in Brighton either head northeast to attend Okeechobee High or south to attend Moore Haven High. So when those schools meet on a basketball court, as the boys teams did Dec. 3 at a packed Moore Haven gym, there’s bound to be familiar faces

BRIGHTON — It’s an annual rite of passage: middle school basketball teams say goodbye to their 8th-graders who move on to high school. The replenishing crop that returns the following year can contain plenty of unknowns, but for this year’s Pemayetv Emahakv Charter School boys and girls teams, two things

New head coach leads both teams BIG CYPRESS — The Ahfachkee School opened its high school basketball season Dec. 5 with competitive games in a doubleheader against Donahue Academy of Ave Maria, but the Warriors came up short in both games. In the first game, the Ahfachkee girls erased a 20-point deficit

LAKE PLACID — The Lake Placid High School football season was headed in the wrong direction one month into the season. With a 1-3 record, the possibility of making the playoffs seemed highly unlikely. Determined not to let their season slip away any further, the Green Dragons found their groove and made

Moore Haven finishes with 8-2 record; makes playoffs for second straight year MOORE HAVEN — With college football options on the table for both of them, Conner Thomas and Andrew Fish could be back on the grid iron next fall, but their high school careers at Moore Haven – where the

A year ago the Eastern Indian Rodeo Association brought back a few first place finishers from the Indian National Finals Rodeo when Jacoby Johns (bareback riding) and Naha Jumper and Josh Jumper (team roping) won the short-go rounds. This year the EIRA came back empty-handed from Las Vegas in October as

After winning its first state title last season, American Heritage preaches defense as the Patriots seek two in a row PLANTATION — American Heritage’s press was so suffocating, unforgiving and overwhelming in its season opener that the Patriots looked like they were already in mid-to-late season form. Heritage used its seemingly impenetrable

As a way to pump up their fall sports teams before the district tournaments, Ahfachkee held a pep rally Oct. 12 in the Herman L. Osceola Gymnasium.