Who Is This Central FL Team? Orlando Evans

[OldSchoolLion 1,694]

After a 20-year hiatus in the state finals, this team made its home city proud by ending the drought.  Who was the team?

 

 

[OldSchoolLion 1,694]

To clarify, it wasn't the team that had a 20-year hiatus in the finals, it was the city in which the high school resides.  In other words, this city went 20 years without a representative in the finals until the team in question made it.  Sorry if that was not clear.  

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4 hours ago, OldSchoolLion said:

To clarify, it wasn't the team that had a 20-year hiatus in the finals, it was the city in which the high school resides.  In other words, this city went 20 years without a representative in the finals until the team in question made it.  Sorry if that was not clear.  

Titusville?

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1 hour ago, DarterBlue2 said:

Titusville?

Good guess, Darter.  But Titusville was in a final in 83 and Astronaut was in a final in 2000, so no 20-year hiatus there.

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1 hour ago, DarterBlue2 said:

Titusville?

Though you did not get it on the first try, I have high expectations of you Darter.

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12 hours ago, OldSchoolLion said:

Though you did not get it on the first try, I have high expectations of you Darter.

Orlando Evans, which tied Southridge in 1991, 20 years after Bishop Moore gave Orlando its first state title. If I am right, you are a tricky guy with a wry sense of humor. 

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58 minutes ago, DarterBlue2 said:

Orlando Evans, which tied Southridge in 1991, 20 years after Bishop Moore gave Orlando its first state title. If I am right, you are a tricky guy with a wry sense of humor. 

That is right, Darter!  Thank you for not letting me down!  And me...tricky...c'mon now

And how convenient we now have a video of that Evans game to watch in another post.

To think we went from a time when Orlando area teams rarely appeared in a final to today, when the Orlando area is routinely represented.  Orlando has come a long way in hs football and I think things will only get better in the future.

  

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1 hour ago, DarterBlue2 said:

Orlando Evans, which tied Southridge in 1991, 20 years after Bishop Moore gave Orlando its first state title. If I am right, you are a tricky guy with a wry sense of humor. 

I'll have corn beef on that wry please.