Class 5A, Region 3, District 11

Teams: (2014 record)
Bayshore Bruins (1-8)
Booker Tornadoes (6-4)
DeSoto County Bulldogs (8-3)
Hardee Wildcats (5-5)
Lemon Bay Manta Rays (7-3)
Southeast Seminoles (1-9)

2015 Outlook:
Take out the pair of one-win programs from Bradenton, and you’ve got some pretty stiff competition spread out between Booker, DeSoto, Hardee and Lemon Bay. Hardee and DeSoto play in the state’s oldest rivalry while Booker usually has some talent tucked away down in Sarasota for the Bay Area teams to matchup against during the regular season in recent years past. The “legacy” program of Bradenton-Southeast and their 1-9 record sticks out like a sore thumb, but much like the multiple other teams faced with the same results in 2014, the ‘Noles have turned the page and will look to get things going in the right direction.

Keep your eyes open for:
Bayshore – Jackie Garvin (DE)
Booker – Osirus Mitchell (WR)
DeSoto County – Nirion Washington (RB/CB)
Hardee – Hayden Lindsey (QB), Parker Carlton (RB/LB), Trequan Holley (SS/WR)
Lemon Bay – Victor Mellor (QB/FS)
Southeast – Dmitry Smith (FS/WR), Deshawn Richardson (ATH)

Fall Classic Schedules:
8/21
Bayshore vs. Clearwater Central Catholic
Booker at Palmetto
DeSoto County vs. Cardinal Mooney
Hardee at George Jenkins
Lemon Bay at Port Charlotte
Southeast vs. Leto

District Schedules:
9/18
Booker at Hardee
Lemon Bay at DeSoto County
Southeast at Bayshore

10/2
Bayshore at Booker
DeSoto County at Southeast
Hardee at Lemon Bay

10/16
Booker at DeSoto County
Hardee at Bayshore
Lemon Bay at Southeast

10/23
Booker at Lemon Bay
DeSoto County at Bayshore
Southeast at Hardee

10/30
Bayshore at Lemon Bay
DeSoto County at Hardee
Southeast at Booker

Opposite district: 5A-12 (Ft. Myers-Cypress Lake, Dunbar, Mariner, Immokalee, Naples-Lely)
Biggest roadblocks in 5A South: Bishop Moore, Palm Bay, American Heritage-Plantation, Hallandale