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Sarasota vs. Windermere 

Bill Kemp

Sarasota vs. Windermere
Sarasota vs. Windermere / Bill Kemp

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Sarasota faces Windermere in a Class 7A semifinal. The winner faces Miami Columbus in the 7A state title game tomorrow at 1 p.m.

Columbus defeated Stanford Seminole 78-48 in an earlier semifinal. Columbus has won the past two 7A state championships.

FIRST QUARTER

The game is underway and just like that Windermere jumps out to a 5-0 lead in the first minute of play.

Windermere (25-5) jumps out to a 14-4 lead with two minutes to play in the first quarter.

Sarasota (28-2) comes into this game riding an 18-game winning streak but the Sailors are off to a rough start trailing 20-5 after the first quarter.

SECOND QUARTER

Sarasota has narrowed the Windermere lead down to 23-15 with 1:37 left in the first half.

Windermere leads Sarasotla by 10 at the half.
Windermere guard Lucas Boyd pushes the ball upcourt against Sarasota in the first half. / Bill Kemp

HALFTIME: Windermere leads Sarasota 25-15.

THIRD QUARTER

John Lackaff leads Sarasota with 10 points and two rebounds at the half. Additionally, David Young has five points.

Windermere picked up nine points, one steal and one rebound from Sean Owens in the first half. Korvantae Hatter added five points and Ben Burnell scored four.

Windermere shot 10-of-27 from the field in the first half and 4-of-14 from behind the 3-point arc. Sarasota shot 6-of-20 and 2-of-7 from 3-point land.

Remember the winner of this game faces Miami Columbus in the 7A state title game tomorrow at 1 p.m.

Sarasota narrows the Windermere lead to six points with 3:30 remaining in the third quarter, 32-26.

Amazing how Sarasota has turned the momentum of this game around. The Sailors have cut the lead to four, 36-32, with one minute left in the third quarter.

End of the third quarter: Windermere 39, Sarasota 32

FOURTH QUARTER

Third quarter numbers: Windermere’s Korvantae Hatter leads all scorers with 16 points, seven rebounds and one steal. Also for Windermere, Ben Bunnell has seven points and Sean Owens has nine.

David Young leads Sarasota with 12 points while John Lackaff has 10.

Windermere (25-5) fattens its lead to 11 points, 43-32, right out of the gate in the fourth quarter with 5:23 left.

Windermere pushes its lead to 55-37 two minutes left. Miami Columbus awaits the winner tomorrow.

FINAL: Windermere 59, Sarasota 39

Windermere will look to stop juggernaut Miami Columbus from a three-peat tomorrow.

Wrap up: Windermere was led by Korvantae Hatter with 20 points and eight rebounds. Terrance Drain added 17 and Sean Owens scored 10.

Sarasota was led by John Lackaff and David Young with 12 points each.

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Bill Kemp
BILL KEMP

Bill Kemp is an award-winning sports journalist at the state and national levels. Over the course of 25 years, he’s covered more than 4,000 sporting events including the NFL regular season, playoffs and Super Bowls, Major League Baseball regular season and spring training, NASCAR racing at Daytona and Talladega International Speedways and major college football regular seasons and bowl games. He was named by the Associated Press Sports Editors as a Top 10 sports columnist and Top 3 by the Alabama Press Association for best sports column and sports page design. He has served as preps editor at the Lakeland Ledger as well as sports editor at five different newspapers in Florida and Alabama. He has been published in dozens of newspapers including USA Today, the Miami Herald, the Orlando Sentinel, the Jacksonville Times Union and the Tampa Bay Times. He holds a bachelor's degree from the University of South Florida. He has been writing for SBLive Sports since 2022.