{"id":4226,"date":"2011-03-07T16:50:30","date_gmt":"2011-03-07T21:50:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=4226"},"modified":"2011-03-07T16:50:30","modified_gmt":"2011-03-07T21:50:30","slug":"leesburg-ends-blake-memorable-season-68-52","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=4226","title":{"rendered":"Leesburg Ends Blake Memorable Season, 68-52"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Blake High School Senior <strong>Andre Smith<\/strong> held his head high as he exited the Lakeland Civic Center Friday afternoon. Coach <strong>Winston Davis<\/strong> and his Yellow Jackets had just lost a semi-final contest 68-52 to the \u201cother\u201d Yellow Jackets from Leesburg.<\/p>\n<p>Blake&#8217;s magical season ended in front of 2,200 fans on Florida&#8217;s biggest stage at the FHSAA Boys Basketball Finals. It was a disappointing ending for a great season.<\/p>\n<p>Yet,<strong> Smith<\/strong> managed a smile as a fan shook his hand and wished him well, as he heads for South Carolina&#8217;s Division I Winthrop University in the fall. He scored 16 points in his final game for Blake, while 6&#8217;3&#8243; junior, <strong>Brandon Channer <\/strong>added 20 points.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Channer<\/strong> and 6&#8217;2&#8243; defensive specialist <strong>Clarence Peterson<\/strong> return to Blake\u2019s squad next year, which made it to the state tournament for the first time since the all-black state tournaments ended in the late 1960s. Blake closed in 1971 and reopened in 2007.<\/p>\n<p>Tampa&#8217;s Yellow Jackets entered the tournament ranked #1 in Florida Class 4A , and took a 28-2 record into their matchup with Leesburg.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Blake High School Senior Andre Smith held his head high as he exited the Lakeland Civic Center Friday afternoon. Coach Winston Davis and his Yellow Jackets had just lost a semi-final contest 68-52 to the \u201cother\u201d Yellow Jackets from Leesburg. Blake&#8217;s magical season ended in front of 2,200 fans on Florida&#8217;s biggest stage at the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":210,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4226","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4226","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/210"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4226"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4226\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}