Morning Coffee with FLN on Substack 04292024
Welcome to today’s post! The first round is in the books! 32 teams left in each of the Boys and Girls!
Congratulations to the Tampa Men for their 16-9 win over Rollins and the Tampa Women for their 10-9 win over FSC in the Sunshine State Conference title games!
Keiser and Webber Men are the #2 and #3 seeds in the NAIA Championships.
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Given Lakeland’s win over Gulf Coast in the Boy’s bracket, subscriber Mike Lewis was kind enough to research and send me what he found about the nickname, which cleared up the spelling approach!
Thanks Mike!
Interesting Facts from their Wiki:
Lakeland High 100 years old this year!
Alumni include Maurkice and Mike Pouncey, Grady Judd, Andy Bean, Lee Janzen, Lawton Chiles, Kay Hagan, Boog Powell and Neva Jane Langley.
Mike, your next assignment is to finally solve ‘What are the Thunderwolves?’.
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Merrimack Update
Merrimack HC Mike Morgan ‘stepped down’ as head coach Saturday after their win over Bryant as the fall out over a slur in the game against Albany plays out. The player was kicked off the team too. Merrimack will be coached on an interim basis for their America East playoff game(s). Three Floridians play for Merrimack; Lucas Gauch and Grant Laman of St Thomas and Trace Hogan of Jupiter.
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Next Round starts on Tuesday, with 16 games for the Girls! We’ll review 8 here and leave the 8 others for Tuesday’s Morning Coffee! On Wednesday, we have 16 games scheduled for the Boys, so we’ll do 4 on Tuesday and the rest on Wednesday, so there will be 8/12/12 for Monday-Wednesday in total.