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Here are the fall 2024 All-County honorees, covering top high school athletes from Broward and Palm Beach counties in football, swimming, girls volleyball, cross country, golf and bowling. The section also will be available in Sunday’s editions of the Sun Sentinel.
The best of Broward County high school sports: Fall 2024 All-County honorees
The best of Palm Beach County high school sports: Fall 2024 All-County honorees
Here are the fall 2024 All-County honorees, covering top high school athletes from Broward County in football, swimming, girls volleyball, cross country, golf and bowling. The section will be published in the newspaper on Sunday.
FOOTBALL
Broward 7A-5A football offensive player of the year: Andrew Indorf, St. Thomas Aquinas senior
Broward 7A-5A football defensive player of the year: Samari Reed, Monarch senior
Broward 7A-5A football offense first team, second team, honorable mention and coach of the year
Broward 7A-5A football defense first team and second team
Broward 4A-1A football offensive co-players of the year: Dia Bell, American Heritage junior; Malachi Toney, American Heritage senior
Broward 4A-1A football defensive player of the year: Chris Ewald, Chaminade-Madonna senior
Broward 4A-1A football offense first team, second team, honorable mention and coach of the year
Broward 4A-1A football defense first team, second team
GIRLS VOLLEYBALL
Broward 7A-6A girls volleyball player of the year: Mikayla Porter, St.
Here are the fall 2024 All-County honorees, covering top high school athletes from Palm Beach County in football, swimming, girls volleyball, cross country, golf and bowling. The section will be published in the newspaper on Sunday.
FOOTBALL
Palm Beach 7A-5A football offensive co-players of the year: Lincoln Graf, Atlantic senior; Teddy Hoffmann, Atlantic senior
Palm Beach 7A-5A football defensive player of the year: Xavier Reid, West Boca Raton junior
Palm Beach 7A-5A football offense first team, second team, honorable mention and coach of the year
Palm Beach 7A-5A football defense first team and second team
Palm Beach 4A-1A football offensive player of the year: Jyron Hughley, Cardinal Newman junior
Palm Beach 4A-1A football defensive co-players of the year: Levi Champion, King’s Academy sophomore; Brennan King, Cardinal Newman senior
Palm Beach 4A-1A football offense first team, second team, honorable mention and coach of the year
Palm Beach 4A-1A football defense first team, second team
GIRLS VOLLEYBALL
Palm Beach 7A-6A girls volleyball player of the year: Mija Bendziute, Boca Raton senior
Palm Beach 7A-6A girls volleyball first team, second team, honorable mention and coach of the year
Palm Beach 5A-1A girls volleyball player of the year: Tekoa Barnes, Boca Raton Christian senior
Palm Beach 5A-1A girls volleyball first team, second team, honorable mention and coach of the year
SWIMMING AND DIVING
Palm Beach boys swimmer of the year: Lucas Bailey, St.
General Daily Insight for December 27, 2024
There’s a cosmic traffic jam overhead. Mercury is cruising through outgoing Sagittarius, but it’s also locking into a tough square with icy Saturn in slippery Pisces at 2:29 am EST. This may force us to spin our wheels while we wait for better conditions.
ORLANDO — Observations and other notes of interest from Thursday night’s 89-88 victory over the Orlando Magic:
– Because this is who they are.
– And who they have to be.
– Tyler Herro with the dramatics.
– And a lot of grit and grime otherwise.
– Even with Jimmy Butler.
– Or, in this case, without.
– No, not pretty.
– But needed.
– Especially after a day of Butler-a-go-go.
– Granted the Magic were without their two best players.
– But who is going to be picky after what happened last time in this building?
– No, this team does not score with grace or ease.
– Especially amid a struggle like Bam Adebayo’s in this one.
– But the supporting pieces supported.
– With all due credit to Alec Burks, Jaime Jaquez Jr.
ORLANDO — This time the Miami Heat turned the tables after blowing a 25-point lead in this building five nights earlier. In dramatic fashion, no less.
Battling back from a 17-point deficit Thursday night at Kia Center, Erik Spoelstra’s team found a way in the absence of Jimmy Butler, winning on a Tyler Herro 19-foot jumper that closed the scoring with five-tenths of a second to play.
Heat 89, Magic 88 … with the game ending with Magic guard Jalen Suggs off with a 3-pointer that ultimately was ruled after the closing buzzer.
“We felt sick to our stomachs after that last game.” Herro said.
It wasn’t that this was necessarily appetizing, the Heat closing with 21 turnovers and shooting just .408 from the field, but it certainly removed the bitter taste of Saturday night.
“We knew we had to give them one back,” forward Jaime Jaquez said.
With Herro doing just that off a Heat timeout down one with 4.9 seconds to play.
Unlike previous closing situations amid this uneven 15-13 Heat ride, Herro this time did not settle for a 3-pointer, instead settling in for a jumper in a seam of the Magic defense.
“It was just getting the ball to the top,” Herro said, “and letting me play.”
Spoelstra said he knew he had to keep it basic against the NBA’s top-ranked defense.
“We got the ball to Tyler,” Spoelstra said, “which is not a forgone conclusion the way this was going.”
It was a rugged, gritty, at times painful experience, as Spoelstra had forecast when his team arrived in Orlando for Saturday’s game.