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In my honest opinion, I think STA beats Bloomingdale by 14 at least. I don't think Bloomingdale will be strong enough to win the battle in the trenches for 4 quarters. The only chance they have of winning is creating turnovers. If they don't force any turnovers, they lose hands down. This STA team is what they used to be but they are still capable of scoring early, often, and capitalizing off turnovers. Bloomingdale will have to play mistake-free football to advance.

It was a good game to watch. I thought STA was smaller in size than usual and looked very sloppy in the passing game. STA QB was very off that night. Venice played sound defense, and grinding it out on offense. STA had the edge in special teams in my opinion. STA looks like a totally different team from last year when they aren't loaded with D-1 players in every single position. I think the game against IMG helped them a lot in preparation for STA.

I will be at the Braden River @ Venice game. 

I've seen Riverview play a couple times this year, against Manatee and Olympia. Riverview has 4 Division 1 defensive backs in their secondary and 2 are only juniors. They don't have much speed on offense, but they run a no huddle, fast pace offense with a nice downhill back, and they do it very efficiently. They are very disciplined and well coached. Riverview has a GOOD chance of beating Dr. Phillips this Friday.

I didn't expect Riverview HS to make the playoffs or win the district either. They beat Manatee for the first time since 2008 (somewhere along those lines) and finished 8-1 on the season. They play Olympia HS this Friday in the first round of playoffs.

This is a simple case of "looking too deep into the name." This is ridiculous and shouldn't have been put in the daily newspaper. People are too sensitive these days.

Good game but Braden River made to many mistakes, and gave up some big third downs defensively in the 1st half that led to STA touchdowns. Offensively, Braden River ball control, methodical drive type offense moved the ball well but they don't have the ability to score quickly so it's hard to come from behind. They were able to run the first half. Defensively, Braden River didn't put enough pressure on the QB. He had too much time to throw and that hurt Braden River. Turnovers hurt also. STA only scored 6 points in the second half. I was surprised that STA didn't have more of a run game. I forgot Harriot from University School was the coach. His OC is a spread em out pass happy type of coach. I remember when University Christian came down and played Manatee and Manatee ran it down their throat in the second half to come back and win. Univ Christian jumped out 21-0 and lost.

I'm picking Central in this one. Naples is solid but I think Central is on another level.