Today's Sports

Chiefland High volleyball players quietly wiped away tears and gathered up their belongings as Union County celebrated winning the Class 1A, District 7 Championship with a 3-1 victory against the Lady Indians in Newberry on Thursday night.

After rolling through the regular season unbeaten in district play and even avenging its only two nonconference losses by beating Trenton and Williston, top-seeded Chiefland (15-3 overall) seemed poised to take its first district volleyball title.

Quotes from Alden Davis were left out of a story that ran on the front page about the Chiefland golf team winning the district tournament last week in Gainesville. Davis sank a six-foot putt on No. 18 to lift his team to the program’s first golf district title in years, if not ever.

Chiefland Middle School’s volleyball team needed just 42 minutes to defeat Lake Butler 2-0 to win the Suwannee Middle School Athletic Conference championship in Lake Butler on Thursday.

The post-game celebration included smiles and high-fives, but nothing too crazy like one might expect after a team wins a league title. Because the Lady Braves (14-1) are so dominant, they expect to win.

In fact, they weren’t even nervous before the biggest game of their season.

CORRECTION: To clarify that Scott was relieved of coaching girls basketball and remains as coach in football.

Jennifer Langston has been named the new Chiefland High varsity and junior varsity head basketball coach. Langston, a 1990 CHS graduate, replaces Carlton Scott, who was relieved of coaching girls basketball for undisclosed reasons after being named the head coach in late August. Scott continues to coach football.