New Smyrna Beach

The NSB baseball team won its 5th game in a row and improved to 9-2. Deltona won in softball and Seabreeze won in girls' tennis. Baseball New Smyrna Beach 12, Flagler Palm Coast 3 Batting highlights: NSB Flacco, 3-4, 2B; NSB Landers, 3-4, 2B, 4 RBIs; NSB Morgan 2-4, 3B; NSB Garvey 2-4, 3B.

Even with his team ahead by 23 points in a game last week at Lake Mary Prep, New Smyrna Beach point guard Frank Bellissimo crashed into the scorer's table chasing down a loose ball. The ball eventually trickled to the opposite end of the compact gymnasium, prompting second-year Head Coach Ryan Dickey to retrieve it. The joints tightened up every so slightly during his leisurely trot.

Pine Ridge's Jaylen Cheeks and Flagler Palm Coast's Desmond Neal join five newcomers on this year's list. Volusia-Flagler's boys basketball playing field looks pretty level entering 2020-21. As such, players from seven different programs comprise this year's News-Journal preseason Super 7.

PALM COAST — Matanzas waited 15 years to host a high school football playoff game. Celebrating their first postseason win by raining down ice-bucket showers, raising the Jolly Roger and moshing boisterously in the fieldhouse, the Pirates will turn around and do it again in seven, short days. Noah Cundiff's 65-yard touchdown reception with 2.