Chris Hays

Loading your audio article When high school football schedules came out last spring, there was one game that football fanatics across the Central Florida region circled on their calendar. It's finally here.

Besides having the top running back in the area with UCF commit Taevion Swint, the Kowboys boast perhaps the top defensive front seven in Central Florida. But all eyes will be on the area's top quarterback: Lake Mary's junior Noah Grubbs, a Notre Dame commit.

chris hays, orlando sentinel When high school football schedules came out in the spring, there was one game that the Central Florida region circled on its calendar. It's finally here.

Week 2 of high school football tees off with former Seminole state champ coach Eric Lodge and his Berkeley, S.C., team playing Winter Park on Thursday. Friday’s Osceola at Lake Mary, Evans-Apopka a…

Week 2 of high school football tees off with former Seminole state champ coach Eric Lodge and his Berkeley, S.C., team playing Winter Park on Thursday. Friday's Osceola at Lake Mary, Evans-Apopka and audacious private school power-to-be First Academy challenging public school juggernaut Edgewater.

The second week of the high school football season showed us that The First Academy is for real, Lake Mary isn't all Noah Grubbs, and there is a star in the making at Mount Dora, Tymir Gaines.

Tymir Gaines has sprinted out of the starting blocks this football season with something to prove. He’s not big, but he’s chiseled as a 5-10, 180-pound running back. Gaines burst on the…

Tymir Gaines has sprinted out of the starting blocks this football season with something to prove. He's not big, but he's chiseled as a 5-10, 180-pound running back. Gaines burst on the scene with 458 yards in his first two games with Mount Dora (2-0) and his coach couldn't be more happy.

Jack Reilly has finally found a home in Central Florida, and the Illinois transplant has made a happy coach out of Windermere High head man Riki Smith. The Wolverines play their first on-campus hom…

There was a time, in the male-dominated sport of football, when it was not even a consideration that women would be on the field during a high school football game