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Pasco-Hernando State College sophomore Olivia D’Angelo was recently named NJCAA (National Junior College Athletic Association) Runner of the Week following her performance at the Sept. 14 Mountain Dew Gator Cross Country Invitational, at the University of Florida in Gainesville. D’Angelo’s 19:37.6 5K mark was tops among all junior college participants and 51^st overall (among 308 runners from 36 colleges and universities). D’Angelo, the defending NJCAA Region VIII women’s champion, is a Lutz native and Steinbrenner High School product.

Dave Panno, left, and Ken Willis teamed up to win first place at the South Pasco Bassmasters (SPBM) September tournament, hauling in five bass totaling 24.11 pounds at Lake Panasoffkee.

The duo caught their fish using plastic trick worms and chatter bait in 7 feet of water in a mixture of hydrilla and eel grass.

The next SPBM tournament is Oct. 19 at the Kissimmee Chain.

For information on the fishing club, visit southpascobassmasters.com

Cypress Creek Middle-High Coyotes junior pitcher/outfielder Peyton Petry has verbally committed to play collegiate baseball at NCAA Division II Saint Leo University.

Petry went 4-1 on the mound last season, registering a 1.35 ERA and 34 strikeouts in 36.1 innings pitched. He also posted a .333 batting average and 7 RBIs in 39 at-bats in 19 games at the plate.

Petry was named first team All-Sunshine Athletic Conference in the spring.

His younger brother, sophomore third baseman/pitcher Ethan Petry, last month verbally committed to play baseball at Division I University of South Florida.

Pasco-Hernando State College (PHSC) Bobcats volleyball freshman Brooke Sereda recently earned NJCAA Region 8/FCSAA Division II Player of the Week honors. The 5-foot-9 opposite hitter from Weeki Wachee averaged 2.2 kills and 2.5 digs over six matches for the week ending Sept. 3. The Bobcats earned a split of those six matches.

Lutz resident Glenda Rae Mims recently had a golfing moment she’ll surely never forget.

During the Lexington Oaks Golf Club Thursday Ladies League on Aug 29, Mims, 68, recorded a hole-in-one on the course’s 96-yard par-3, 13th hole using an Adams 3 hybrid and Bridgestone ball.

The feat was witnessed by the three other members of Mims’ golfing foursome (Lynda Davis, Cathy Frey, Carolyn Lodge) and has been verified through the United States Golf Register.

The odds of an amateur golfer scoring a hole-in-one are approximately 12,500 to 1, according to the National Hole-In-One Association.

Dade City native and Pasco High School/Florida Gators product Joey Ivie was recently named to the Kansas City Chiefs active roster for the 2019 NFL season.

It marks the first time the 6-foot-3, 301-pound defensive tackle has made an initial 53-man NFL roster to begin a season.

Since drafted by the Dallas Cowboys in the seventh round of the 2017 NFL Draft, the 24-year-old Ivie has bounced around the league, mainly as a reserve/practice squad player, also getting brief stints with the Atlanta Falcons and Seattle Seahawks, respectively.

Before starring at Florida and reaching the NFL, Ivie shined as a multisport athlete at Pasco High, where he graduated in 2013. The Pirates football team went a combined 36-3 and captured three district titles in the three seasons Ivie spent on varsity.

Former Saint Leo men’s basketball student-athlete Daniel Duarte recently signed a professional contract with Mgzavrebi-Armia in Tbilisi, Georgia.

Duarte was a two-year member of the Lions.

As a senior during the 2018-2019 season, the 6-foot-3 guard averaged 5.3 points, 1.3 rebounds and about an assist per game in 27 games. His shooting splits were .352/.311/.667.

His junior year, he averaged 6.9 points and 1.3 rebounds per game in 30 games.

Prior to his time at Saint Leo, Duarte played at Miami’s Monsignor Pace High School and State College of Florida, Manatee-Sarasota.

Duarte joins a Mgzavrebi-Armia team that competes in the Georgia SuperLeague and last season won the league championship over Dinamo Tbilisi.

Other former Saint Leo men’s basketball players actively playing professionally include Junior Searcy (Germany Wiha Schwennigan, class of 2019), Spenser Mitchell (Lithuania Palanga BC, class of 2014) and Justin Satchell (Dominican Republic Dosa, class of 2017).