Head Coach: Joey Whittington (13th season)Last year’s record: 9-4 (lost to Space Coast in SSAA Atlantic 1A Championship)You go 9-4 last year and get all the way to the SSAA Atlantic 1A Championship Game. What is the next step for the program, understanding that the SSAA has restructured this year?The next step in the program is just hopefully switching from last year. We did a … Continue reading Bell Bulldog Football season preview
Head Coach: Bryant Frye (First year)Last year’s record: 5-8 (lost to Dixie County in Rural FIT semifinals)It’s your first year. What are you expecting this year?This year, I expect us to kind of get the opportunity to see what we can do. It’s a new offense, new coaching staff, new philosophy, so the first thing that I would like to see is if the kids … Continue reading Trenton Tiger Football season preview
SubmittedBell High School sophomore, Corbin Abarca, overcame a two-hour weather delay at the 2025 FHSAA Class 1A Track and Field Championships at the University of North Florida in Jacksonville to place in the top 5 at the Men’s Discus Throw competition. Abarca threw the discus 46.95 meters (154 feet) and claimed 5th place out of 18 competitors, winning him a medal and a place on … Continue reading Abarca places 5th at state meet
Trenton defeated Chiefland for the second night in a row by the same score, 11-4. Last night’s win did not come with the same level of comfort, however. After each team pushed across a run in the first, the Indians took a 2-1 lead in the top of the second. Chiefland held that lead into the bottom of the third. With one out and runners … Continue reading Trenton trounces Chiefland again to advance to regional final
Trenton baseball defeated Dixie County and Chiefland last week to win the district championship.The Tigers beat Dixie County, 19-3, in the semifinals and Chiefland, 4-3, in the final to take home the title.The Tigers’ reward for winning the title is at least two more games against the Indians in the FHSAA’s new playoff format for baseball.The best-of-three series will take place on April 28 and … Continue reading Trenton defeats Dixie, Chiefland to win district championship
The Bell High School Runnin’ Bulldogs Track and Field Team competed in the 2025 FHSAA 1A, District 5 track meet held at Oak Hall School on Saturday, April 19th. Out of nine district teams, the Bulldogs finished 4th on the girls side and the boys placed 5th. Thirty-seven Bell student-athletes went to districts and 24 qualified to go to the Regional Track and Field Meet … Continue reading Runnin’ Bulldogs perform at district track meet
SubmittedBell High School senior, Kennedy Smith, participated and medaled in the 2025 FHSAA 1A State Girls Weightlifting Meet held in Lakeland, Florida on Saturday, February 15th . Smith lifted in the 199-pound classification, competing against 22 other girls from around the state of Florida. In the Olympic lift portion of the meet, Smith came in 4th place with a total score of 330 points. In … Continue reading Smith Medals at State Weightlifting Meet
Trenton met little resistance Friday night as the Tigers manhandled Bell in a 51-8 win.The Tigers opened up a 32-4 lead in the first half, holding the Bulldogs scoreless in the second quarter.Trenton extended the lead enough to enact a running clock early in the third quarter and allowed just two points in each of the third and fourth quarters close out the win.Trenton’s Mason … Continue reading Trenton steamrolls Bell
Trenton’s football season will continue this week in the FHSAA Rural Football Invitational Tournament..This tournament is made up of 12 teams that did not make the FHSAA Class Rural playoffs.The Tigers received the No. 8 seed and will host No. 9 seed Sneads.The Pirates went 4-6 this season.The winner will go on the road to face No. 1 seed Baker next week.Kickoff for this week’s … Continue reading Trenton to host Sneads in first round of Rural Football Invitation Tournament
Bell ran Interlachen off the field — figuratively and literally. After giving up 21 straight points and building frustrations with the officials (the final straw apparently being a player drawing several unsportsmanlike conduct fouls by shouting obscenities at the officials), Rams coaches pulled the players off the field, forcing Bell to play the final 2:47 all by their lonesome. The Bulldogs’ best game, it was … Continue reading Bell runs all over Interlachen, sets up championship rematch
