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The Seabreeze Sandcrabs football team fell prey to the Spruce Creek Hawks in their season opener Friday, Aug. 27, losing 32-20. The Sandcrabs fought back from a 25-7 deficit.

Coaching on the field he once played on will be a “surreal” experience for Flagler Palm Coast’s Robert Paxia. For Mainland’s Travis Roland, the surroundings will be quite familiar. Due to a quirky twist of fate, the two teams will open the football season Friday, Sept.

One week after scoring 42 points in its Kickoff Classic victory, the young Matanzas High football team discovered it still has a lot of work to do. St. Augustine Menendez took advantage of five Pirates turnovers to shut out Matanzas 29-0 in the season opener for both teams Friday, Aug.

For the second season in a row, DeLand High reported COVID-19 cases in its football program ahead of its opening game. The school announced late Monday, in a post on Twitter, that Friday's trip to Mainland is canceled with hopes to reschedule the rivalry contest at a later date. "We haven't discussed that yet," DeLand athletic director Lance Jenkins said in a phone interview Tuesday morning.

The games finally count! It's Week 1 of the Florida High School football season, and the area is chalk full of big games, despite a few COVID-cancellations.   Seabreeze and Spruce Creek will do battle in Port Orange to open the season, while the "Battle of the Bridge" is set to take center stage at Ponte Vedra.   Other key matchups include Deltona-University, and Rickards-Bartram Trail.

The 2020 season for the Sandalwood Saints was one of the best in recent memories. Winning nine games and their first playoff game since 2006, the Saints fell just a game short of the state finals. Touting arguably the best defense in 8A, Sandalwood pushed its way through battle after battle.