Florida
Eastern Florida State College Softball Punches Ticket to State Tournament in Clearwater – Space Coast Daily
tournament begins May 8
BREVARD COUNTY, FLORIDA – The Eastern Florida State College softball team clinched a spot in the FCSAA Division I/NJCAA South Atlantic District Championships with a win on Saturday.
The Titans, who finished the regular season 22-22 in the Citrus Conference, defeated the State College of Florida Manatee 6-3 in the first game and then lost the second game 5-2 on the road.
Eastern Florida State College will compete in the tournament beginning May 8 at the Eddie C. Moore Complex in Clearwater. It will be the first time the Titans will be in the tournament since 2019.
In Game 1, the Titans scored in the third inning as Brooke Theisen doubled, bringing home Marisa Shoudt. SCF-Manatee would tie the game in the fourth inning. But in the fifth inning, the Titans would score twice and then three more times in the seventh inning to pick up the win.
Hannah Strickland would pick up the win, her 16th of the season and Alanna O’Brien came in to pick up the save, her seventh of the season.
Theisen had two hits in the games for the Titans and Shoudt and Livie Davis each scored twice.
In Game 2, the Titans scored runs in the second and third innings, but SCF-Manatee would tie the game in the bottom of the third and take the lead with three runs in the fourth inning.
Destiny Lake came in and tossed two scoreless innings of relief for the Titans, striking out one.
Eastern Florida State College now has 37 wins on the season which ties the 2011 team with the most wins in the past 30 years. They will wait to see who they will face in the first round of the state tournament.
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Florida
Authorities identify 78-year-old Florida man accused of fatally striking teen with boat
Investigators have identified the man who was operating the boat that fatally struck a 15-year-old girl off a South Florida beach and then left the area, but no criminal charges have been filed, according to a report released Wednesday.
The 78-year-old man owns the Coral Gables home where Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission officers found and seized the docked boat Tuesday afternoon. The man was the only occupant in the boat at the time of Saturday’s hit-and-run crash that left Ella Adler dead, according to the commission’s report.
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A Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission spokesperson said the investigation was active and they couldn’t speculate on what charges might be filed.
Adler and another girl were wakeboarding behind a 42-foot Hanse Fjord walk-around near Key Biscayne, just south of Miami, on Saturday afternoon before falling off at different spots, officials said. A dozen people had been on the boat pulling Adler. Before the vessel could return to collect her, Adler was hit by another boat, which immediately sped away, officials said. Witnesses described the hit-and-run craft as a center console boat with a light blue hull, multiple white outboard engines and blue bottom paint.
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A funeral service for Adler was held Monday morning at Temple Beth Sholom in Miami Beach. Adler was a freshman at Ransom Everglades School in Coconut Grove and a ballerina with the Miami City Ballet.
Florida
Cormani McClain Transfers to Florida After 1 Season with Deion Sanders, Colorado
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Cornerback Cormani McClain is transferring to Florida after one season at Colorado, his agent told ESPN’s Adam Rittenberg on Wednesday.
McClain was rated as a 5-star recruit by 247Sports, as well as the No. 14 overall player and No. 1 cornerback in the 2023 recruiting class.
He chose to play under Pro Football Hall of Fame corner Deion Sanders at Colorado, and as a freshman in 2023, McClain started four of the nine games he appeared in, recording 13 tackles and two passes defended.
Upon entering the transfer portal after the 2023 season, 247Sports rated McClain as the No. 21 overall transfer and the No. 5 cornerback in the portal.
This article will be updated soon to provide more information and analysis.
Florida
Florida is one of America’s highest generators of plastic waste
Brook Crist collects trash in Lake Boca a day after the 2024 annual Boca Bash
Brook Crist, of Pompano Beach, collects trash in Lake Boca a day after the 2024 annual Boca Bash.
Brook Crist
Littering, particularly plastic pollution, remains a bigger Florida problem than most of us think. The recent viral video depicting a group of young boaters polluting the waters off Lake Boca during the annual Boca Bash event has brought the problem into clearer focus. Here are three reasons why Floridians should care about littering and its impact on Florida and the world:
1. Florida, according to a 2023 study by Florida International University, is the nation’s third-highest generator of plastic waste. The state produces more plastic waste than the current recycling system can process. Its 8% recycling rate has gone down, despite increasing initiatives to improve recycling.
2. Florida remains among 19 states that, according to 2023 data compiled by the Retail Industry Leaders Association, have placed restrictions on regulating plastic carryout bags.
3. Some 33 billion pounds of plastic enter oceans every year, according to Plastic Free Florida, an organization of volunteers taking action to curb plastic pollution in the state. That amount is roughly the equivalent of dumping two garbage trucks full of plastic into the oceans every minute. At that rate, the 2016 World Economic Forum report predicted, the world’s oceans could soon hold more plastic than fish.
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