Welcome to Week 3 of the Florida high school football season in the Gainesville area!
All eyes locally will be on Alachua County once again, and especially Citizens Field. Buchholz and Eastside are meeting in the first installment of the city rivalry series. The Rams have a better record than the Bobcats in the matchup for the first time in two decades, but the Bobcats are motivated following a heartbreaking loss to Vero Beach last week.
East of Citizens, revenge will be on the mind of Hawthorne. The Hornets host Florida High, which became the first time to dethrone HHS in the regular season in four years last season in Tallahassee.
Elsewhere in the county, Newberry and P.K. Yonge search for their first wins, while Santa Fe looks to improve to 2-0. Outside the biggest county, Bradford faces another grueling test with a visit to South Sumter, and Columbia travels down to Hillsborough for a battle between two of the oldest schools in the state.
Keep it here Friday night for scores across the Gainesville-area, and be sure to follow Gainesville Sun Preps Reporter Noah Ram on Twitter (@noah_ram1) and Instagram (@ramreporter) for updates, videos, polls and more. He’ll be at Citizens Field Friday night for the renewal of the Buchholz-Eastside rivalry.
Noah Ram covers Florida Gators athletics and Gainesville-area high school sports for The Gainesville Sun, GatorSports.com and the USA TODAY Network. Contact him at nram@gannett.com. Follow him on X @Noah_ram1. Read his coverage of the Gators’ national championship basketball season in “CHOMP-IONS!” — a hardcover coffee-table collector’s book from The Sun. Details at Florida.ChampsBook.com
This article originally appeared on The Gainesville Sun: FINAL SCORES: Week 3 Gainesville area FHSAA Florida high school football score updates
Reporting by Noah Ram, Gainesville Sun / The Gainesville Sun
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