The football field at the North Fort Myers Community Park on Saturday was filled with athletes armed with plastic bats, trying to hit a drastically curving ball to become the Wiffle Ball champs.The North Fort Myers Civic Association presented its second-annual Wiffle Ball Bash, its way of ...
It was all business for the North Fort Myers girls soccer program Friday night as they defeated Cape Coral 8-0 to notch back-to-back district titles -- their third in four years.Senior standout and University of Arkansas commit Emilee Hauser scored five goals to lead the Lady Red Knights in the ...
The North Fort Myers Civic Association last year held its biggest fundraiser in history with the inaugural Wiffle Ball tournament at the community park.On Saturday, Feb. 8, the organization hopes to improve on that with the second annual event to be held on the football field, with more teams ...
This is peak season for the one fish around Pine Island and Southwest Florida that thrives during the cooler winter months -- the sheepshead (Archosaurs probatocephalus). Sheepshead are easily identified by their broad body with telltale black vertical stripes that many have renamed the convict ...
One of the oldest events in North Fort Myers returns to the Posse Arena this Friday, Saturday and Sunday, and people of all ages can participate.The 59th annual Cracker Day Rodeo will take place, featuring three days of action and many of the events you would expect to see as well as a few you ...
While Tommy Bohanon's football career took a pause this year, the foundation he founded continues to play hard.On Friday, the Tommy Bohanon Foundation held its second "Man Up" seminar at the Southwest Florida Community Foundation in Fort Myers on Friday.One hundred and fifty male athletes from ...
Little Leaguers around Lee County will get the chance to participate in youth clinics put on by the Minnesota Twins in the coming months. Beginning Jan. 18 in Cape Coral, 10 free youth clinics will be held at parks around the region to give ballplayers of tomorrow an opportunity to learn from ...
The North Fort Myers High School girls soccer team started its season the way it usually does by winning its first five games by a combined 33-4.However, injuries and overall poor play hit the Red Knights, and they promptly went winless in their next four, including two ties before the winter ...
If you've traveled up and down U.S. 41 in North Fort Myers, you may have seen those tiny signs along the side of the road seeking people to play in a winter softball league.Well, the Ray Tibbs 60+ softball league has been seeking players since the start of the year and will continue to seek ...
After losing its first six games of the season, the North Fort Myers High boys basketball team has gotten its players back from football and starting to play like a team going places.The Red Knights won two of their next three (with the loss coming in overtime), including the first game of its ...
