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1 week ago | 
hernandosun.com | Austyn Szempruch
NEW PORT RICHEY – The good times keep on rolling for Head Coach Lyndon Coleman and Pasco-Hernando State College’s top-ranked baseball team. They are headed to the 2025 NJCAA Division II Baseball World Series Championship final. The Bobcats punched their ticket to the big game in Enid, Oklahoma, following a dominating 11-1 semifinal victory over the Iowa Central Community College Tritons on Thursday.
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1 week ago | 
hernandosun.com | Austyn Szempruch
SPRING HILL – Local multi-sport athlete Francesco Alagna has found a collegiate home. On Friday, the 17-year-old announced that he has committed to compete for Newberry College at the next level. The young boxer/wrestler/runner fielded interest from several other institutions including South Carolina and St. Leo University. He would also visit St. Thomas and Southeastern Universities before deciding on Newberry.
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1 week ago | 
hernandosun.com | Austyn Szempruch
On the Saturday before Memorial Day, legionnaires and auxiliary members from the American Legion Post 99 on Fort Dade came out to place miniature American flags by the gravestones of fallen soldiers. Volunteers arrived even before eight in the morning to honor those heroes who rest at the historic Brooksville Cemetery on Olmes Road. That morning, Vietnam Veteran John Swald led a crew of roughly two dozen legion members in placing over 700 Star Spangled Banners alongside soldiers’ burial plots.
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1 week ago | 
hernandosun.com | Austyn Szempruch
SPRING HILL – “I’m Just A Man.”That is the title of USMC Veteran Steven L. Hutten’s biography. It is a short statement that exemplifies the humility of a hero who served his country in not one but two tours during the Vietnam War. A boy from Illinois, he was proud to be the first Hutten to become a Marine. He would go on to be awarded the Purple Heart and the Navy Achievement Medal and have his biography entered into the Library of Congress.
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1 week ago | 
hernandosun.com | Austyn Szempruch
On the last weekend of April, the 2025 Florida State Boxing Junior Olympics Amateur Tournament was held in Orlando, Florida. The Spring Hill-based dojo Primal Striking and BJJ represented the area well with five fighters, two of whom won individual state titles in their respective divisions. “Good squad,” said Primal Striking Coach Frank Alagna. “I am so proud of them. Honestly, we really had a great time.
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2 weeks ago | 
hernandosun.com | Austyn Szempruch
SPRING HILL – The Springstead Eagles flew past the Central Bears in a 54-14 spring jamboree victory at the Eagles Nest on Friday night. Head Coach Michael Garofano’s Eagles featured a three-headed monster at quarterback that led the team to paydirt on every offensive drive of the evening. “I thought we played well,” Coach Garofano said. “We moved the ball offensively… I was most impressed with the QB play, really. They all did a great job. It’s been a good competition all spring.
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2 weeks ago | 
hernandosun.com | Austyn Szempruch
Sign Beautification Brings Local Community TogetherBROOKSVILLE – Last month, members of the Nottingham Forest community showed what neighbors can do when they work together. On April 5, members of the tight-knit local community in North Brooksville banded together to beautify the entrance to their neighborhood. For over 30 years, community leader Ed Ritter drove past the entrance to the sign welcoming residents and visitors onto Nottingham’s grounds.
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2 weeks ago | 
hernandosun.com | Austyn Szempruch
On May 12, state and local leaders as well as members of the Armed Forces met at the American Legion Andrew Jackson Post 99 to dedicate the post office in downtown Brooksville to US Army Specialist Justin Dean Coleman. A process that was multiple years in the making, United States Marine Veteran Eric Anderson and Representative Gus Bilirakis unveiled a plaque for Specialist Coleman alongside the fallen soldier’s parents, Dean and Pepper Coleman, on Monday.
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3 weeks ago | 
hernandosun.com | Austyn Szempruch
In November of 2024, Donald DiMonda began recruiting for his new chapter of the “100 Men Who Care Nature Coast,” a group of volunteers committed to donating to local non-profits. They seek out 501(c)(3) non-profit organizations in Hernando and invite three to every quarterly meeting. Each charity is allowed a five-minute presentation detailing what they would like to do with the money that they would potentially be donated.
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3 weeks ago | 
hernandosun.com | Austyn Szempruch
On May 5, Central High School held a ceremony that saw a trio of their athletes sign with various colleges. While surrounded by friends and family, Seniors Talyn Poole, Ryan Engley, and Korbin Baskind officially put pen to paper to play football or baseball for their respective programs. Multi-sport athlete Talyn Poole pledged to play football for Monmouth College next year.
