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When the 13-member Junior Bahamian golf squad left for Puerto Rico earlier this week, they did so with high hopes, and after Day One of competition at the 19th Annual Caribbean Junior Amateur Golf Championships, they sat in second place.Enjoying the playing conditions at the Westin Rio Mar Beach Golf Resort and Spa in Rio Grande, Puerto Rico, the young Bahamian team did little to disappoint with their second place tally of 43.5 points. Home town favourites Puerto Rico led the competition after Day One with 51 points.
According to Bahamas Golf Federation's President Agatha Delancey, the team was in a perfect position to make a move on the leading Puerto Ricans.
"It feels very good to know that they are doing well, and personally I would not have wanted them to be in first place after the first day because the person who picks up on the second day normally holds on to take it to the end," said Delancey.
Big game is draw for Dwyer
PORT CANAVERAL - About 30 big-game fishing teams are rigged and ready to take on some of the strongest gamesters found offshore Florida's east coast.They are scheduled to leave this evening from Port Canaveral and fish for prized yellowfin tuna and other heavyweights that roam the bluewater depths east of the Gulf Stream. They will fish for 14 hours Saturday before returning to port in the wee hours Sunday. Most of the boats will cover more than 200 miles of ocean.
The Ed Dwyer Other Side Invitational out of Rusty's Seafood and Oyster Bar attracts some of Central Florida's top big-game anglers. It's the eighth year Dwyer has hosted the tournament. The Cocoa charter captain started the Canaveral yellowfin tuna craze in 1988."I'm thinking it will take a 200- to 220-pound aggregate to win, and I wouldn't be surprised to see a 100-pounder," said Dwyer in describing the three-yellowfin total needed to claim the $6,000 top prize, based on a 30-boat field.
Discovery Could Rock Archaeology
NEW PORT RICHEY - A tireless prophet with a salt-and-pepper beard and an inviting grin, John Saxer knows that mainstream archaeologists, journalists and folks in Tarpon Springs think he's nuts.They reject his Greek mythology- and archaeology-based theories that Tarpon Springs is the center of the biblical Garden of Eden and the Tampa Bay area coastline was the seaport of Atlantis.
It's been a tough sell, acknowledges Saxer, a 55-year-old bicycle mechanic and bartender who was homeless for much of 2004.
Saxer has been ignored by archaeologists nationwide for the past 18 months, despite offering evidence of what he claims are 6,500-year-old stone ark anchors abundant on land near shorelines in New Port Richey, Holiday and Tarpon Springs.
"It gets scary when you're in front of the field," said Saxer, an amateur archaeologist since his college days at the University of Wisconsin.
Slow starter taking off quickly
Mike Close didn't grow up as a star baseball player. But he seems to have grown into one.The Lone Tree senior started slow as a youngster.
"In junior high I was horrible. I was the worst kid on the team," Close said. "My freshman year, I was playing JV and the coach brought me up. I did all right, and from there on, I put a little more extra work into baseball."
Close is hitting over .400 so far this season and played a strong defensive right field, coach Jeremy Hissem said.
"I've been getting a lot of cuts in the off-season," Close said. "I kind of felt like I needed to lead by example, and I took it upon myself to hit the weight room."
While Close played football in the fall, baseball always has been his focus.
"I just like playing the game," he said.