Sports Briefs – The Roar

JV basketball looks to next season

February 26, 2020

The junior varsity basketball team ended with a 1-17 record, so obviously the team is looking to improve during the offseason. A handful of players are bound to be promoted to the varsity team, but the majority of the team wil...

Purrfections to perform before Nationals

February 20, 2020

The dance season is drawing to a close and the national competition is weeks away. The Purrfections dance team has learned and prepared three routines to bring to the competition. Before leaving, however, the dancers will perfo...

Lake Highland Prep ends girls’ soccer title run

February 19, 2020

Despite winning time-of-possession, the girls' soccer team lost to Lake Highland Prep 3-1 Tuesday night in the Class 3A, Region 2 final in Orlando. The Lady Wildcats (16-3-3) fell one match short of making the Final Four for the...

Himes, Garridolee pace track meet

February 19, 2020

Ashley Himes (10) placed 14th out of 39 runners in the 1600-meter run to pace West Shore at the Merritt Island Invitational track meet Feb. 14. “I felt like I did well, but could have done better,” Hilmes said. ...

Boys’ lacrosse season opens Tuesday

February 14, 2020

The boys’ lacrosse team will open the season at Cocoa Beach on Tuesday at 6 p.m., but not before participating in a Saturday preseason tournament against Melbourne and Rockledge which will be held at Melbourne Central Catho...

Boys’ lacrosse eyes season-opener

January 29, 2020

After nearly four months of lacrosse conditioning, the boys' team is preparing to start the season. The team opens with a preseason tournament at Cocoa Beach on Feb. 18 followed by a regular season-opener home game against Melbourne ...

Distance runners ready for track season

January 28, 2020

High-school track has only just begun, but for many runners training started when the last season ended. Distance runners have continued their training from the cross-country season up to now by competing in local competitions...

Girls’ soccer seniors’ look back — and ahead

January 27, 2020

Offshore cyclone sends Florida a huge swell

January 27, 2020

A large cyclone off the coast of the northeastern United States has been sending a large swell to south Florida this past week and into the weekend with parts of it hitting Brevard County as well. Local surfers are hoping that...

Girls’ soccer falls to Titusville on Senior Night

January 27, 2020

With the swift kick toward the end of the game, Titusville upended the girls’ soccer team 2-1, placing a damper on a Senior Night celebration Thursday. "It was a tough game," Catrina Carl (9) said. "And a close game." Only...

Coyle called up to varsity team

January 27, 2020

The junior varsity boys’ basketball has lost one of its starting five players as C.J. Coyle (10) has proved himself worthy of being on the varsity squad. But the varsity team’s gain is the JV team’s loss. "It's cool he...

Divers stay fit with warehouse work

January 23, 2020

The club diving team Sunrise Springboard is scheduled to continue training at the warehouse for another month, but on March 9, the divers will be heading back to the boards to officially start the 2020 training s...

JV girls tie Satellite 0-0

January 23, 2020

The girls’ junior varsity soccer team played Satellite to a scoreless time Tuesday. Due to temperatures being in the mid-to low 40s, the players may have had difficulty maintaining focus. “Everyone wore like undershirts,”...

Monteverde shuts out boys’ soccer

January 23, 2020

The boys’ varsity soccer team fell to MonteVerde Academy 5-0 in an exhibition game Friday. . Since the beginning of 2020, MonteVerde, sports academy, has won all of its games. "We played really bad pretty bad in my opinion,...

Runners prepare for track season

January 20, 2020

Though the cross-country season has been over for a while, that doesn’t mean athletes are done running. “I have started training at the satellite track every Tuesday and Thursday,” Emily Oliver said. “We started ...