Coral Reef won the Class 8A-5A All-Sports Trophy and Girls’ Major Sports Award during The Herald’s All-Dade breakfast Wednesday morning.

ALL-DADE AWARD WINNERS

Davonte Pollard didn’t let a debilitating eye disease stop him from returning to sports and running the football for Braddock.

Looking to knock down the doors of history, the Archbishop McCarthy baseball team will get its chance on Thursday night at 7:35 p.m.

Joel Furnari and South Dade High go back a long, long time — some 32 years.

Coral Reef won the Class 8A-5A All-Sports Trophy and Girls’ Major Sports Award during The Herald’s All-Dade breakfast Wednesday morning.

Davonte Pollard didn’t let a debilitating eye disease stop him from returning to sports and running the football for Braddock.

ALL-DADE AWARD WINNERS

Joel Furnari and South Dade High go back a long, long time — some 32 years.

The moment was a tough one for seniors of the Monsignor Pace baseball team.

Heartbreak could not even begin to describe what Monsignor Pace baseball players were going through in the wee hours of Wednesday morning.

Florida Christian’s Chris Pelaez threw a great game, but it wasn’t enough to overcome Central Catholic.

Monsignor Pace found itself in a scoring funk for the second consecutive year at state.

Aliya Moktadier, Kasia Williams, Jayson Plasencia, Ashley Sierra and Hunter Alvarez of Coral Reef Senior High School were selected to participate in the summer agroecology internship hosted by Florida International University.

The state semifinals might be the last place you would expect to find a team that just a week earlier was giving an eight-run cushion to a pitcher selected as one of the nation’s 36 high school baseball prospects to play in the 2013 Under Armour Game in Chicago’s Wrigley Field this August.

The Patriots had no answer for the Cougars’ highly touted prospect Tyler Danish on the mound or at the plate in Friday’s semifinal.

The Monsignor Pace baseball team has 17 seniors who still have a sour taste in their mouths from a 1-0 state semifinal loss to Bishop Verot that ended their junior seasons last year.

Westwood Christian took home the Class 2A trophy thanks to a potent offense and Jason Gutierrez’s complete-game, one-hit effort.

Looking to knock down the doors of history, the Archbishop McCarthy baseball team will get its chance on Thursday night at 7:35 p.m.

Haines City’s suicide squeeze in the seventh inning gave the Hornets the winning run against St. Thomas Aquinas.

Though it lists only two seniors on its roster, Archbishop McCarthy is trying to make state history with four titles in a row.

Blanche Ely star guard Dallas Cameron has signed a letter of intent to attend Stephen F. Austin University following a decommitment to American University.

When Troy Cameron accepted the baseball coaching job at his alma mater, he didn’t expect to be so busy at this time of year.

Pembroke Pines Charter couldn’t solve Lake City Columbia’s pitching — even after a one-day break for better weather.

Pines Charter is faced with a 3-0 deficit in the fourth inning of the Class 6A state championship, which will resume Sunday.

Sarah Maloney pitched a two-hitter to lead Cypress Bay into the Class 8A championship game.

Despite missing star second baseman Victoria Gonzalez, Pines Charter advanced to the state final behind the pitching of left-hander Claire Blount.

Meghan King threw a one-hitter, and Rachel Collins drove in the game’s only run to spark St. Thomas Aquinas.

When Ken Mastrole speaks to the students at his many passing clinics, he explains that hard work will lead to open doors. That philosophy recently came true for the one-time Cardinal Gibbons standout quarterback.

It didn’t take long for word about Ermon Lane to spread across the St. Thomas University campus Saturday during the Airo/IMG 7-on-7 football tournament.

This was the class that everyone waited on. Loaded with as much talent as there has ever been in South Florida.

There is an absurdity to National Signing Day in the way it is presented and covered. For many, this annual segue from high school to college football is an exciting and glorious thing. For me and perhaps others, it is closer to National Sighing Day — an exercise of excess that makes us shake our head and wonder how it got to this point.

South Plantation’s Alex Collins got his father’s signature on his letter of intent to Arkansas. But his mother, who prefers UM, has hired a lawyer.